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Bo Knows: Rookie Blue Jay Bichette nearing history with 17-game on-base streak
TORONTO - Bo Bichette knows where he stands in his chase for history. The Blue Jays 21-year-old rookie shortstop claims he's not thinking too much about his career-opening on-base streak that reached ...
Aug 16, 2019

Report says salaries for Crown executives fell 18 per cent last year
The pay for members of the upper management of Saskatchewan's Crown corporations fell by nearly 18 per cent over the past year.According to the Crown Investments Corporation's 2018-19 Payee Disclosure...
Aug 16, 2019 (file photo/CJME News Staff)

Melfort Spirit hopes to have a new norm following U14A girls’ nationals appearance
The Melfort U14A Spirit softball team returned from the Canadian Fast Pitch Championship which wrapped up in Montreal on Aug. 11, and they hope to have brought back a new standard to the Melfort Minor...
Aug 16, 2019 (Facebook/2019 U14A Spirit Softball).

Prairie provinces have no plans to put carbon tax stickers on pumps
EDMONTON - Carbon-tax-fighting governments in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba say they have no plans to follow Ontario's lead and force gas stations to put anti-carbon tax stickers o...
Aug 16, 2019

Archeological teams to excavate, map wrecks of Franklin expedition
OTTAWA - Canadian archeologists are on their way to a remote island near the Arctic Circle for another chance to dig up the secrets held by the Franklin expedition wrecks. Parks Canada and I...
Aug 16, 2019

Defence minister asks military watchdog to investigate racism in the ranks
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has asked Canada's military ombudsman to investigate racism in the Canadian Forces following several high-profile incidents and a report linking service members...
Aug 16, 2019

Keep justice minister and attorney general one role: McLellan report
OTTAWA - The former Liberal cabinet minister tasked with looking into whether the roles of justice minister and attorney general should be separated is recommending no structural changes should b...
Aug 16, 2019

Former administrator elected urban councilor
The newly elected urban councilor for Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN) says she is anxious to get to work.The unofficial results from Thursday's byelection show Clarisse Lecoq received 400 votes, j...
Aug 16, 2019 (Submitted photo/ Clarisse Lecoq)

First Nations women finally to be treated equally under Indian Act: Bennett
OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says First Nations women will finally be treated the same as men under the Indian Act. Bennett says First Nations women and their descendan...
Aug 16, 2019

Liberals unveil $3B sole-source deal for armoured vehicles ahead of election
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government says it plans to award a multibillion-dollar contract for hundreds of light armoured vehicles to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada without holding a competit...
Aug 16, 2019