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Community members coming together to support evacuees and firefighters
It's a scary time right now for a lot of people in Saskatchewan as wildfires continue to threaten communities in the North.The one thing evacuees have been able to count on, however, is their fellow m...
May 30, 2025
Housing evacuees may become more challenging as more are displaced by wildfires
Frustration is growing among those evacuated from their homes due to northern wildfires. Weldon McCallum is the emergency evacuation coordinator for the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation working with the C...
May 30, 2025
Canada calls on Israel to abandon plans for new West Bank settlements
OTTAWA - Canada is calling on Israel to abandon plans unveiled Thursday to authorize 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank which it says would be illegal. Israel captured the West Bank, alon...
May 30, 2025
Benn and the Stars again fall short of a Stanley Cup shot after 3rd West final in a row
DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas Stars have done what no other team has over the past three decades while reaching three conference finals in a row. They failed to win a Stanley Cup during their run. They did...
May 30, 2025
B.C. man who got $8M says he'll be penniless if made to pay sex assault damages
VANCOUVER - A B.C. man who was awarded $8 million after being wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and spending 27 years in prison says he'll be left "homeless and penniless" if forced to pay civil ...
May 30, 2025
Benn and the Stars again fall short of a Stanley Cup shot after 3rd West final in a row
DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas Stars have done what no other team has over the past three decades in reaching three conference finals in a row. They failed to win a Stanley Cup during their run, though. The...
May 30, 2025
Search to resume for children almost a month after they disappeared from N.S. home
LANSDOWNE STATION - A search for two young children who went missing almost a month ago is set to resume Saturday in a remote corner of northeastern Nova Scotia. On May 2, four-year-old Jack Sullivan ...
May 30, 2025
MRC providing mental health supports to wildfire evacuees; seeking various donations
The Marguerite Riel Centre in Melfort will be assisting wildfire evacuees over the coming days and weeks. Staff at the centre have been asked to help provide mental health and other supports to evacue...
May 30, 2025
Richie Laryea, Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty set for Toronto return as Charlotte FC visits
TORONTO - A pair of familiar faces could make their return Saturday when Toronto FC hosts Charlotte FC in MLS play. Toronto fullback Richie Laryea, out since March 1 with a hamstring injury, is availa...
May 30, 2025
Ottawa's plan to 'fast-track' infrastructure doesn't go far enough: Poilievre
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the government's plan to circumvent the Impact Assessment Act to speed up key infrastructure projects doesn't go far enough. Taking questions from re...
May 30, 2025