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Former NHL player Sopel said stories about Crawford were not meant as allegations
Former NHL player Brent Sopel says his stories on a year-old podcast about rough treatment from Marc Crawford were meant "to entertain the listener" and not to make allegations against his former...
Dec 05, 2019

First big payout in new Sask. lottery
The opening payout in the new Touchdown for Kids Millionaire Lottery has gone to a woman in Swift Current. Christine Newton won $500,000.The lottery is a partnership between the Saskatchewan Roughride...
Dec 05, 2019 Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation along with the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation are partners in the new lottery. (File photo/paNOW Staff)

Arsenal endures worst run since 1977; Newcastle wins in EPL
LONDON - Not since 1977 have things been this bad at Arsenal. The struggling Gunners slumped to a 2-1 home loss to Brighton in the Premier League on Thursday, taking the team's winless streak to nine ...
Dec 05, 2019

Norway's Lie quickest in training for Lake Louise women's World Cup downhills
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Norway's Kajsa Vickhoff Lie was fastest in Thursday's training run for the season-opening World Cup women's downhills. Lie posted a time of one minute 51.54 seconds in L...
Dec 05, 2019

Guard: Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Minnesota; 3 aboard
ST. CLOUD, Minn. - A Black Hawk helicopter with three crew members aboard crashed Thursday in central Minnesota, a state National Guard official said. Minnesota National Guard Master Sgt. Blair Heusde...
Dec 05, 2019

San Francisco Opera names its first female music director
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Opera has named conductor Eun Sun Kim its new music director, ushering the first woman into the job in the company's history. The 39-year-old Kim will become the comp...
Dec 05, 2019

Watson Santa Claus Weekend back for 88th year
Watson is ready for a weekend full of Santa Claus.The Town of Watson is holding their 88th Annual Santa Claus Weekend starting on the evening Friday, with "Festive Friday" and ending on Saturday, Dec....
Dec 05, 2019 Horse drawn sleigh rides will be back for another year at Watson Santa Claus Weekend. (Facebook/Santa Claus Weekend in Watson (Aeran Schmid Photography))

Consensus comes 30 years later that Montreal massacre was an anti-feminist act
MONTREAL - Thirty years after the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, official acknowledgment has come that what happened on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique was an attack on f...
Dec 05, 2019

Snowbirds aerobatics team returns to full operations after crash in U.S.
OTTAWA - The Canadian military's Snowbirds aerobatics team is returning to full operations after a crash grounded the planes in the U.S. for more than a month. Military investigators are still trying ...
Dec 05, 2019

Manitoba NDP seek honorary premier title for Louis Riel
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition wants to give the title of honorary first premier to Metis leader Louis Riel. NDP Leader Wab Kinew has put forward a private member's bill that would bestow ...
Dec 05, 2019