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Feds setting up scholarship program to honour victims of plane shot down by Iran
TORONTO - The federal government is setting up a scholarship program honouring the victims of the passenger jet shot down by Iranian forces two years ago. The program is expected to disburse scholarsh...
Jan 07, 2022
Bail hearing to continue next week for Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard
TORONTO - The bail hearing for Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard will continue next week. Police have said he's charged with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement, wh...
Jan 07, 2022
Journalist for Montreal online radio station killed on the job in Haiti
MONTREAL - A journalist working for a Montreal-based online radio station was killed Thursday near the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as he prepared to interview a member of an armed group about the...
Jan 07, 2022
Feds overhauling methane-reduction fund slammed by environment commissioner
OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is overhauling a methane-reduction program that the environment commissioner slammed last fall as poorly designed and a waste of money. The third...
Jan 07, 2022
Father of Quebec girl murdered by stepmother sentenced to four years in prison
TROIS-RIVIRES, Que. - A Quebec Superior Court judge today sentenced the father of a girl who was murdered by her stepmother in April 2019 to four years in prison for his role in events leading to her ...
Jan 07, 2022
27 out of 130 passengers on Sunwing party flight to Mexico back in Canada: Duclos
OTTAWA - Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says about 27 of the 130 passengers on the Sunwing party flight to Mexico have returned to Canada. Duclos told reporters today the returning traveller...
Jan 07, 2022
Advocates push for awareness of anti-Asian racism as new surveys highlight toll
OTTAWA - At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amy Go knew Canada was about to repeat history. The president of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice said she braced herself for t...
Jan 07, 2022
Saskatchewan Winter Games in Regina cancelled due to COVID-19
The Saskatchewan Winter Games that were set to take place in Regina in late February will not go ahead due to COVID-19. The annual event was scheduled for Feb. 20 to 26.The Saskatchewan Games Council ...
Jan 07, 2022
P.A. and northern Saskatchewan saw positive job growth throughout 2021
Prince Albert and northern Saskatchewan saw some of the best job growth in 2021 the region has had in the past 15 years.According to Statistics Canada, around 1,800 positions were created in communiti...
Jan 07, 2022
Bomb squad completes removal of unstable chemicals from U of R labs
The Regina Police Service's bomb squad and other first responders began the process Friday of removing unstable chemicals from some labs on the University of Regina campus.The operation was completed ...
Jan 07, 2022