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COVID-19 phone line receives over 1,800 calls in first two weeks
A toll free telephone line which allows Saskatchewan residents the opportunity to ask non-health related questions about COVID-19, or report people who are not respecting social distancing rules, appe...
Apr 06, 2020 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
'I gained confidence in Melfort': Rondeau rolling to Laurentian for post-secondary hockey
The Melfort Mustangs have their first graduating player commitment of the off-season.Defenceman Alex Rondeau has committed top Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont. for his post-secondary hockey care...
Apr 06, 2020 Rondeau played a total of 128 regular season and playoff games for the Mustangs over his two seasons with the club. (Facebook/Broad Leaf Media)
Sask. Country Music Awards show moving to TV and online format, due to COVID-19 precautions
Country music fans will still be able to take in the 2020 Saskatchewan Country Music 31st Annual Awards Show despite the COVID-19 provincial restrictions since the entire event is moving to the virtua...
Apr 06, 2020 The 2020 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards Show will now take place on Access TV Channel 7 at the new date, May 16. It will also be available through the online link at scma.sk.ca. (Facebook/Saskatchewan Country Music Association')
Woman scared for brother in Calgary long-term care home with COVID-19 outbreak
CALGARY - A Calgary woman says she's terrified for her brother who has a severe mental disability and is living in a long-term care home with an outbreak of COVID-19. Julie Nimmo's br...
Apr 06, 2020
Leafs' Matthews, Marner, Penguins' Marleau relive start of ageless friendship
Auston Matthews remembers returning to the Toronto Maple Leafs' hotel after dinner one night and finding something unexpected. It was a road trip early in the 2017-18 season, and when t...
Apr 06, 2020
Judge sides with woman accused of spying for Russia, orders new hearing
OTTAWA - A Russian-born woman who was barred from Canada for allegedly spying on behalf of Moscow will get another chance to argue her case. In a newly released ruling, Federal Court Ju...
Apr 06, 2020
Beloved Detroit Tigers star Al Kaline dies at 85
DETROIT - Al Kaline, who spent his entire 22-season Hall of Fame career with the Detroit Tigers and was known affectionately as "Mr. Tiger," died Monday. He was 85. John Morad, a friend of Kaline's, c...
Apr 06, 2020
Dana White says UFC 249 is on with Justin Gaethje taking on Tony Ferguson
UFC 249 is going ahead with Justin Gaethje stepping in for lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov against Tony Ferguson for the interim 155-pound title. UFC president Dana White tweeted the news Mon...
Apr 06, 2020
COVID-19 forces weekend warrior racers off the road, devastates race organizers
Donna Moore enters a road race almost every weekend. One after the other, they're cancelled or postponed. "My first cancellation was the St. Patrick's Day road race," said the 57-year-old from Airdrie...
Apr 06, 2020
Canadian Dalton Kellett's IndyCar rookie season unfolding in iRacing events
Canadian Dalton Kellett is two races into his rookie season on the IndyCar circuit and he hasn't even left home. Kellett joined AJ Foyt Racing's IndyCar team ahead of the season, but with events ...
Apr 06, 2020