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Prince Albert Wildlife Federation Scholarship Winners
The Board of Directors of the Prince Albert Wildlife Federation is pleased to announce the winners of their 2021 scholarship. Each year our club awards two five hundred prizes to students pursuing pos...
Oct 06, 2021
More Saskatchewan residents starting to travel again
More people are taking trips abroad despite being in the midst of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Terry Kaszas, a travel development specialist with CAA, said travel from Saskatchewan really ...
Oct 06, 2021
Moderna asks Health Canada to authorize booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - U.S. drugmaker Moderna is asking Health Canada to authorize a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine. The company submitted data on a booster shot that is half the size of the doses used to giv...
Oct 06, 2021
General who wrote reference for sex offender reassigned after outrage over new post
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has removed a senior officer who wrote a reference for a convicted sex offender from his job reviewing ways to eliminate military sexual misconduct. Vice chief of th...
Oct 06, 2021
Nobel Prize in chemistry honors tool to build molecules
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University. ...
Oct 06, 2021
Emergency health-care summit, NDP postelection priorities : In The News for Oct. 6
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 6 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Oct 06, 2021
Seniors advocate to release review of COVID-19 outbreaks at B.C. care facilities
VICTORIA - British Columbia's seniors advocate is set to release a review of COVID-19 outbreaks in the province's care facilities. Isobel Mackenzie said last spring the review will examine more than t...
Oct 06, 2021
NDP says errors meant people — including First Nations — were disenfranchised
OTTAWA - The NDP has requested an official inquiry into what it calls "numerous and systemic failures of election officials" in last month's federal election. NDP national director Anne McGrath has wr...
Oct 06, 2021
RCMP officer who shot, killed Nunavut man continues testifying at inquest
GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut - The RCMP officer who shot and killed an armed man in a remote Nunavut community is scheduled to continue his testimony today at a coroner's inquest. Cpl. Ian Crowe fired at 21-ye...
Oct 06, 2021
Trudeau expected to announce all federal workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make good today on his election promise to require all federal employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Trudeau is expected to announce at a news ...
Oct 06, 2021