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Longtime Conservative MP Diane Finley says she won't run in next election
OTTAWA - Longtime Conservative MP Diane Finley says she's not running in the next election. Finley says she's had a "heck of a ride" but it's time to move forward. She's represented the Ontario riding...
Aug 18, 2020
Heat warnings blanket Saskatchewan
Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for nearly all of Saskatchewan.The province is broken up into 32 regions on the Environment Canada alerts page - and 26 of them were put under a heat warnin...
Aug 18, 2020
Keeping sick people out of schools needs to be priority, Shahab says
As classes get set to resume, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer says the big priority needs to be keeping sick people out of schools.Speaking on Gormley on Tuesday morning, Dr. Saqib Shahab ...
Aug 18, 2020
Roughriders turn attention to financial troubles after cancelled 2020 season
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are now turning their attention to navigating through an impending financial crisis the team faces.The CFL officially cancelled the 2020 season on Monday after being denie...
Aug 18, 2020
Nisga'a Chief who led nation to landmark treaty, Joe Gosnell, dies of cancer
NEW AIYANSH, B.C. - Joe Gosnell, a renowned treaty negotiator, politician and leader of the Nisga'a Nation, has died at the age of 85. A statement from the Nisga'a Lisims government of northwestern Br...
Aug 18, 2020
Sentencing hearing for father of toddler found dead outside Edmonton church
EDMONTON - A sentencing hearing is being held today for a man who was convicted of manslaughter in his young son's death. Joey Crier and his then-girlfriend, Tasha-Lee Doreen Mack, were each char...
Aug 18, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Aug. 18
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on Aug. 18, 2020: There are 122,872 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 61,206 confirmed (including 5,721 deaths, 53,930 res...
Aug 18, 2020
Saskatoon Sings - Solidarity XYE!
Fresh from a wonderful time at our first livestream event in June (we had 3.6k viewers for the show we did from Prince Albert!), we are back for another celebration of solidarity and diversity in musi...
Aug 18, 2020
Review: 'Hi, My Name is Dicky' a gritty account of a former NHLer's path to sobriety
TORONTO - Richard Clune remembers the drive - the pain, the anxiety, the uncertainty, the fear. It was the spring of 2010 and Clune, who had made his NHL debut earlier that season, was final...
Aug 18, 2020
CFL hits the upright and cancels the 2020 Season
In a sense the CFL pulling the plug on the 2020 Season mirrors the 2019 Western Final when the Riders were driving at the end of the game and a pass that probably would have been caught for a tying to...
Aug 18, 2020