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Northern Lights Movement for Kids continues 111 km challenge
Celeste Leray-Leicht is continuing to honour her son, Jacob, connect Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth, and get people to be more active with the Northern Lights Movement for Kids. Leray-Leicht star...
May 28, 2021
Sheriff: Rail yard shooter had gun, ammo stockpile at house
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say the gunman who killed nine co-workers at a California rail yard had 12 guns and 22,000 rounds of ammunition at his home that he set on fire. Officials said Frid...
May 28, 2021
Canada's Josh Larsen travels the world, find rugby home with New England Free Jacks
Born on Vancouver Island and raised in Fiji, the Cook Islands and New Zealand, Josh Larsen now calls suburban Boston home as a member of the New England Free Jacks. But the six-foot-five, 249-pound lo...
May 28, 2021
Ex-cop hired to probe Wisconsin election has partisan ties
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - One of the retired police officers hired by a top Wisconsin Republican to investigate the presidential election in the battleground state has ties to the GOP and previously led a ...
May 28, 2021
Farm laborer convicted in 2018 stabbing death of Iowa runner
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A jury found a farm laborer guilty of murder Friday in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018. The 12-member jury una...
May 28, 2021
Bill Cosby refuses sex offender program, so is denied parole
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Actor Bill Cosby won't be paroled this year after refusing to participate in sex offender programs during his nearly three years in state prison in Pennsylvania. The 83-year-old Co...
May 28, 2021
John Davis, real singer behind Milli Vanilli, dies at 66
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - John Davis, one of the real singers behind the lip-synching pop duo Milli Vanilli, died of the coronavirus this week, according to his family. He was 66. Davis died on Monday in ...
May 28, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commits $25M for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank
OTTAWA - Canada will provide $25 million to Palestinian civilians affected by the recent conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians in Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Prime Minister Justin Trude...
May 28, 2021
Natural resources minister says U.S. 'unwilling' to negotiate on softwood lumber
OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan says Canada is trying to reach a new deal with the United States over softwood lumber, but it's the Americans who are "not willing to reach an agreem...
May 28, 2021
Province reports fourth-highest total of daily vaccine delivery
The province reported an additional 14,351 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan. This brings the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 693,625. This is the four...
May 28, 2021