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International swimming's transgender athlete restrictions make waves in Canada
The world governing body of swimming's exclusion of transgender athletes is creating waves in Canada. FINA adopted Sunday a "gender inclusion policy" that went into effect Monday. Only swimmers who tr...
Jun 20, 2022
Northeast to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day in more ways than one
Tomorrow, June 21, is National Indigenous Peoples Day and communities throughout the northeast will be joining in the celebration.Both Melfort and Humboldt each have a couple of different ways in whic...
Jun 20, 2022
Another landslide north of Quebec City 'inevitable,' 187 forced from homes
MONTREAL - The Quebec government was preparing Monday to extend a local state of emergency to a neighbourhood in Saguenay, Que., north of Quebec City, after almost 200 people were recently forced from...
Jun 20, 2022
Logan Gorst wins CPCA event in Poundmaker, DJ King third
The defending champ earned his first win of the 2022 chuckwagon season at Poundmaker Cree Nation.Meadow Lake's Logan Gorst was the aggregate winner of the second event for the Canadian Professional Ch...
Jun 20, 2022
Wife of WNBA's Griner tells AP scheduled call never happened
WASHINGTON (AP) - WNBA star Brittney Griner tried to call her wife nearly a dozen times through the American embassy in Russia on the couple's fourth anniversary Saturday, but they never connected sin...
Jun 20, 2022
Canadians are blazing a trail for female drivers in male-dominated sport
MONTREAL - Demi Chalkias grew up in the country, on the outskirts of Stoufffille, Ont. The family had no cable or internet, but there were plenty of dirt bikes, ATVs and tractors to play with. "I love...
Jun 20, 2022
Saudi crown prince visits Egypt ahead of Biden Mideast trip
CAIRO (AP) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Cairo on Monday on the first leg of a Middle East tour that comes ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's trip to the region next mo...
Jun 20, 2022
Police looking for missing house
RCMP in Tisdale are looking for a missing house. The home, which was on a trailer in preparation for being moved, was in the Crooked River area when it went missing. Sometime between midnight and 12:3...
Jun 20, 2022
Russian winger Andrei Kuzmenko to sign with Canucks: player, agent
VANCOUVER - Andrei Kuzmenko has chosen the Canucks. The Russian winger's agent, Dan Milstein, tweeted Monday his client intends to sign with Vancouver when free agency opens July 13. Kuzmenko also pos...
Jun 20, 2022
Melfort sees record high temperature, another heat wave expected soon
If you thought it was unusually hot in Melfort this past weekend, you'd be right.The temperature in the community on Saturday hit a high of 31.7 C, a new daily record that beat the 31.5 C set back in ...
Jun 20, 2022