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Scheer cautions against internal fighting in speech in Conservative heartland
CALGARY - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has dismissed those calling for him to step down after last month's election loss as elites and "talking heads" who know he'll never relent in his oppositio...
Nov 30, 2019 Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer speaks to a crowd of vocal supporters at the Saskatoon Farmers' Market on Sept. 28, 2019. (Keenan Sorokan/CKOM)
Mustangs shutout Ice Wolves at Teddy Bear Toss night
The Melfort Mustangs got some revenge on Friday, Nov. 29 as they defeated the La Ronge Ice Wolves 3-0.The win comes just over a week after La Ronge came to Melfort and beat the Mustangs 3-1.Things wer...
Nov 30, 2019 (Mat Barrett/northeastNOW Staff)
Friday's Scoreboard
Here are the results from Friday...WHLBrandon 7, Winnipeg 4Calgary 4, Regina 1Portland 2, Kamloops 1 (SO)Saskatoon 4, Lethbridge 3 (SO)Medicine Hat 6, Moose Jaw 0Prince Albert 4, Swift Current 1Vancou...
Nov 30, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff).
Activist says RCMP profile about her is 'kind of creepy and unsettling'
OTTAWA - An activist concerned about mining-industry abuses found it "kind of creepy and unsettling" to recently learn the RCMP compiled a six-page profile of her shortly...
Nov 30, 2019
B.C. RCMP announce charges in 1993 homicide of 23-year-old Vicki Black
VANCOUVER - The RCMP in British Columbia say a man is in custody and facing a murder charge in the homicide of a 23-year-old woman in Vancouver in 1993. The Mounties announced in a news release Friday...
Nov 29, 2019
Local support worker breaks barriers for Indigenous women and mothers
A local woman is breaking barriers as a recent graduate from the Indigenous Birth Support Worker Program. Dalanie Wahobin grew up in Meadow Lake and Waterhen Lake. She is among the first Indigenous wo...
Nov 29, 2019 Dalanie Wahobin, 28, is among the first to graduate from the Indigenous Birth Support Worker Program offered at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in October 2019. (submitted photo/ Dalanie Wahobin)
Roughriders sign Makana Henry to contract extension
The CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders announced Friday they have signed defensive lineman Makana Henry to a contract extension.Henry, who could have become a free agent in February, now is signed through...
Nov 29, 2019 (File photo/CJME News)
Hoback named to Scheer's shadow cabinet
Randy Hoback has been given more responsibility, and he seems perfectly okay with it.The Member of Parliament (M.P.) for the Prince Albert riding has been named to Andrew Scheer's shadow cabinet, and ...
Nov 29, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Melody Motors 'We Scare Hunger' campaign brings in over 11,000 pounds of food
It was a record year for the Melody Motors 'We Scare Hunger' campaign.A total of 14 schools across the northeast region participated in the 2019 campaign, and 11,348 pounds of food were collected for ...
Nov 29, 2019 Members of Melody Motors hand delivered donations to the Melfort Food Bank and other local food banks. (Facebook/Melody Motors)
Compensate woman detained in Montreal handrail dispute, Supreme Court orders
OTTAWA - A Quebec police officer stepped over the line when he detained a woman for refusing to hold onto an escalator handrail, the Supreme Court of Canada said in a scathing ruling on Friday that al...
Nov 29, 2019