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Claypool expects Chiefs to defend Super Bowl title but could also see a Tampa Bay win
Chase Claypool is expecting another Super Bowl victory for the Kansas City Chiefs, but the Pittsburgh Steelers' Canadian receiver won't be overly surprised if Tom Brady captures a seventh NFL title. B...
Feb 05, 2021

Province administers 2,099 vaccines, 269 new cases of COVID-19
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has announced there were 2,099 doses of the vaccine administered in the province yesterday, bringing the total to 38,710 vaccines given in Saskatchewan. There 269 new...
Feb 05, 2021

Executives at Pornhub defend efforts at preventing child porn on their websites
MONTREAL - Representatives of Pornhub told a parliamentary committee today they don't know if they were contacted by a woman who says she struggled to have a video of her removed from the pornography ...
Feb 05, 2021

Suicide rate down in Sask., attributed to ‘pulling together phenomenon’
While there has been a lot of bad news coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems fewer people have decided to take their lives into their own hands.Deaths by suicide were down about 35 per cent in...
Feb 05, 2021

Tenants in Melfort senior housing unit frustrated after months with no elevator
Some concerns about living conditions in a multi-level senior's housing building in Melfort are coming to light.The elevator at Consolation Manor has been out of order since November 19, 2020, resulti...
Feb 05, 2021

ICC clears way for war crimes probe of Israeli actions
JERUSALEM - The International Criminal Court said Friday that its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, clearing the way for its chief prosecutor to open a wa...
Feb 05, 2021

Defender Ricardo Ferreira switches soccer allegiance from Portugal to Canada
Ricardo Ferreira, a Canadian-born defender who won one cap for Portugal, has switched his international allegiance to Canada. The 28-year-old, born in Mississauga, Ont., to Portuguese parents, was wit...
Feb 05, 2021

Alberta to restore some coal-mining policy protections: government spokesman
EDMONTON, Ky. - The Alberta government plans to restore at least some aspects of a coal policy it revoked last spring, a move that has provoked provincewide protest. Government spokesman Kavi Bal says...
Feb 05, 2021

Approving three more vaccines could double number of Canadians vaccinated this spring
OTTAWA - The number of Canadians who could be vaccinated in the spring could nearly double if Health Canada gives the green light to all three vaccines it is currently reviewing.Prime Minister Justin ...
Feb 05, 2021

Valentine's Day contest scrapped by Halifax Transit following public outcry
HALIFAX - A public backlash has forced the Halifax Transit authority to scrap plans for a Valentine's Day contest it called "Love in Transit." When the municipal agency asked the public to share stori...
Feb 05, 2021