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A missed chance: Basketball playoffs hanging by a thread
The Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association's (SHSAA) looming Wednesday afternoon deadline for agreeance between the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and the Saskatchewan Government is being me...
Mar 11, 2020 The 2019 St. Brieux Crusaders Basketball team celebrating their HOOPLA victory, something this year's team appears to be missing out on. (NorthEastNOW/ Aaron Schulze)
Morneau talks up fiscal room to react to impacts of COVID-19 as concerns mount
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau sought to ease the concerns over the novel coronavirus outbreak on a day where financial markets dropped along with the price of oil,&nb...
Mar 11, 2020
Centre eyes artificial intelligence to modernize the federal hunt for dirty cash
OTTAWA - The federal anti-money laundering centre is exploring artificial intelligence and machine learning to help sort through a deluge of data in the hunt for hidden d...
Mar 11, 2020
Aircraft breakdowns, refuelling problems hit military search-and-rescue missions
OTTAWA - Military search-and-rescue personnel were delayed and in some cases unable to provide emergency assistance on about one in 20 of the hundreds of calls they received last year, ...
Mar 11, 2020
Trump 5G adviser meets feds in Ottawa amid pending decision on Huawei
OTTAWA - A top Trump administration adviser on telecommunications met Monday with officials in Ottawa as Canada continues working on whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to participate in it...
Mar 11, 2020
3 former track athletes suing NCAA, coach over alleged abuse
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Three former student-athletes who say they were sexually abused by a track coach on Wednesday sued the NCAA, its board of governors and the coach, alleging the governing body doesn'...
Mar 11, 2020
3 former track athletes suing NCAA, coach over alleged abuse
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Three former student-athletes who say they were sexually abused by a track coach on Wednesday sued the NCAA, its board of governors and the coach, alleging the governing body doesn'...
Mar 11, 2020
Quebec trying to determine whether to cancel world figure skating championships
MONTREAL - Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann says the government is evaluating whether to allow the world figure skating championships to go ahead next week in Montreal. Her comments Monday come ...
Mar 11, 2020
WHO declares that virus crisis is now a pandemic
ROME - Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who hea...
Mar 11, 2020
Alberta premier says all options on table to fight oil price collapse
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government will do whatever it takes to rescue the province from an oil price collapse and he wants the federal government to step up as well. "Thi...
Mar 11, 2020