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AP Exclusive: DOJ sets new dates to begin federal executions
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a months-long legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since ...
Jun 15, 2020
Sunday storms destroy power infrastructure
Around 22,000 customers were in the dark in the Prince Alberta area during Sunday's severe storms and the extreme winds caused irreparable damage to some SaskPower infrastructure.However, the public u...
Jun 15, 2020
'It's frustrating': Trump advertising blast has limits
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's campaign manager warned in late spring that his juggernaut political operation - the "Death Star," he called it - was about to start "pressing FIRE" for the first...
Jun 15, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. on June 15, 2020: There are 99,091 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 54,054 confirmed (inclu...
Jun 15, 2020
Judge concerned over time it's taking to hear Meng Wanzhou's extradition case
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court judge in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition case says she's concerned by the length of the proceedings. During a case management conference on Mon...
Jun 15, 2020
A look at some highlights of the Saskatchewan budget
REGINA - Premier Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party government presented its 2020-21 budget built around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some of the highlights: - A $2.4-billion deficit with...
Jun 15, 2020
Wayne Embry says if given the choice to play amid racial unrest, he would
TORONTO - Wayne Embry remembers the shock and sorrow that swept through the Boston Celtics when Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated hours before Game 1 of the 1968 Eastern Division fina...
Jun 15, 2020
Feds to consider non-traditional data in pandemic aid rework, Morneau says
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government will look at how measures to revive the economy from its pandemic-induced freeze will impact women and men differently. He also sug...
Jun 15, 2020
Humboldt's mayor discusses flooding caused by Sunday's heavy rain
The city of Humboldt is drying out after a significant rain event on Sunday.Social media posts from Humboldt residents showed some areas of the city received upwards of four inches, or around 100 mm o...
Jun 15, 2020
Tradition was important factor in planning of Canadian Triple Crown races
TORONTO - The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a change of dates for Canada's Triple Crown races but it wasn't going to force Jim Lawson to switch either the order or d...
Jun 15, 2020