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Bullet holes from 2014 attack on Parliament Hill to be left untouched in renovations
OTTAWA - The civil servant leading the most extensive renovations on Centre Block in more than a century says the repairs will not erase the scars from the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill.That includes...
Dec 02, 2020
Hvidston commits to Mustangs for 2021-22 season
Even though only five games have been played by the Melfort Mustangs in the 2020-21 season, the roster for 2021-22 is already taking shape.The Mustangs announced on Wednesday, Dec. 2 that forward Conn...
Dec 02, 2020
The Sundance Film Festival goes largely virtual for 2021
Leave the snow boots, parkas and glove warmers in the closet, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival is coming down from the mountain and straight to your living room. Organizers on Wednesday said that this ...
Dec 02, 2020
Nurse says a positive attitude around living and playing in Tampa is key
When Nick Nurse coached Derby of the British Basketball League back in the early 1990s, the team could only afford to book the Moorways Centre practice hall two nights a week. Nurse and his team would...
Dec 02, 2020
Vaccine priority list must be refined to match available doses: Tam
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says the priority list of people who will get vaccinated first against COVID-19 has to be refined because the initial six million doses won't be enough to...
Dec 02, 2020
Province records two deaths, 238 new COVID cases, 132 people in hospital
The province is reporting another two deaths related to COVID-19 in what is the deadliest week of the pandemic in Saskatchewan's history.The residents who died after tested positive for the virus resi...
Dec 02, 2020
Human activities, shipping, fishing, polluting, links to killer whale deaths: study
VICTORIA - A long-running study of more than 50 dead killer whales in the Pacific Ocean concludes human activities pose deadly threats to the orcas. Killer whale deaths from Alaska to British Columbia...
Dec 02, 2020
'My God, we're scared': Serial attacks put a suburb on edge
WALTHAM, Mass. - The attacks come after dark, without warning, usually from behind. The victims, all men, are hit so hard on the head with some sort of blunt object that they are often knocked to the ...
Dec 02, 2020
Courts, not province, control who is released from custody, Minister says
The provincial minister in charge of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety says the government has no authority to control who is on remand or who is released from provincial correctional centres.Ch...
Dec 02, 2020
Fed and Treasury urge Congress to approve more virus relief
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged Congress to approve COVID-19 relief funds without further delay, though Democrats continued to attack a ...
Dec 02, 2020