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Privacy czar asks court to declare Facebook broke law governing personal info
OTTAWA - The federal privacy czar is asking a judge to declare that Facebook broke Canada's law governing how the private sector can use personal information. Privacy commissioner ...
Feb 08, 2020
Health officials investigating Imperial Tobacco ad campaign on vaping
MONTREAL - Health Canada and its provincial counterpart in Quebec are investigating a widely disseminated Imperial Tobacco advertisement on vaping to see whether it violates advertising laws...
Feb 08, 2020
Family says controversial professor Jordan Peterson recovering from addiction
Jordan Peterson`s daughter says the controversial Toronto author and professor is recovering from an addiction to benzodiazepine in Russia. Mikhaila Peterson says in an online video statement tha...
Feb 08, 2020
Olympic berth on the line for Canadian women as they face Costa Rica in California
CARSON, Calif. - Coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller is throwing out the form chart as eighth-ranked Canada takes on No. 37 Costa Rica in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship...
Feb 08, 2020
Tisdale hosting five provincial curling championships in February 2021
In CurlSask's 113-year history, no community has held five major provincial curling championships in one year.Until the Town of Tisdale next year.CurlSask officially named Tisdale as the host communit...
Feb 08, 2020 Nearly 200 athletes will be in Tisdale over a nine-day period as the town will be the first community to host five of Saskatchewan's curling provincials in one year. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)
Sask. entrepreneur’s DIY candles to be featured in Oscar swag bags
At this time last year, Michelle Bieber was just starting to learn how to craft candles. Fast forward to today, and - less than six months into her new business - the Wolseley entrepreneur's sending h...
Feb 08, 2020 Do-it-yourself candle kits made by Wolseley's Michelle Bieber, the CEO and founder of Mood The Candle Revival Co., are being featured in the 2020 Oscar swag bags, given to award nominees. (Michelle Bieber/Submitted)
Quebec school board renounces federal funding for its Bill 21 court challenge
MONTREAL - A Montreal school board on Thursday said it would renounce the money it was slated to receive from the federal government for a court challenge against Quebec's seculari...
Feb 08, 2020
Hamilton head coach Orlondo Steinauer unveils 2020 Ticats coaching staff
HAMILTON - Orlondo Steinauer will have plenty of familair faces on the sidelines with him this season. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach unveiled his 2020 coaching staff Thursday and it includes nine...
Feb 08, 2020
Slowdown ordered after second train carrying oil derails near Saskatchewan town
GUERNSEY, Sask. - The federal government on Thursday ordered lower speed limits for all trains carrying large amounts of dangerous goods, hours after a fiery derailment in rural Saskatchewan...
Feb 08, 2020
Quebec legislature adopts education bill in contentious early-morning vote
QUEBEC - The Coalition Avenir Quebec has successfully forced through its education reform following an early-morning vote on a bill that abolishes school boards and immediately kicks ma...
Feb 08, 2020