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'Something fantastic has to come out of something so tragic': STARS Pegasus Project kicks off in Humboldt
The Pegasus Project kicked off its summer "Road Show" at Discover Ford in Humboldt on Thursday, June 3.A number of stakeholders and ambassadors were in attendance to kick off the project that is set t...
Jun 03, 2021

Jets forward Scheifele suspended four games for hit on Canadiens forward Jake Evans
Winnipeg Jets centre Mark Scheifele has been suspended four games for his crushing hit on Jake Evans of the Montreal Canadiens in their playoff series opener Wednesday night. The NHL's Department of P...
Jun 03, 2021

Forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women ongoing, Senate report reveals
OTTAWA - She was screaming that she "didn't want this," but it happened anyway. A Cree woman had just given birth to her sixth child in Saskatoon, when she was presented with a consent form for her st...
Jun 03, 2021

Tisdale Regional Landfill project almost finished
The Tisdale Regional Landfill expansion project is expected to be finished by October.The project includes a new landfill cell, leachate pond and compost area."We originally had anticipated that the p...
Jun 03, 2021

Energy regulator orders Trans Mountain to stop tree clearing work on project
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Canada Energy Regulator has issued an order stopping tree cutting and grass mowing across the entire $12.6-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. A statement from Tran...
Jun 03, 2021

Senate unanimously passes bill creating national day for truth and reconciliation
OTTAWA - A bill creating a statutory holiday to commemorate the tragic legacy of residential schools in Canada has been passed unanimously by the Senate. Bill C-5 is expected to receive royal assent l...
Jun 03, 2021

Jewish groups decry mock 'eviction notice' sent to residents in Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Jewish advocacy groups are condemning a mock "eviction notice" dropped in mailboxes across Canada as part of a campaign to draw attention to the planned removal of Palestinians from a neighbo...
Jun 03, 2021

Kenney says 'reasonable effort' made to follow COVID rules at whiskey dinner
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he and his ministers made every reasonable effort to comply with health rules during a surreptitiously photographed whiskey-drinks dinner on the patio of t...
Jun 03, 2021

Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey dead at 87
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) - F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two stat...
Jun 03, 2021

Prairie North Coop donates cheque and soil to Melfort CiB program
Melfort Communities in Bloom (CiB) will be able to plant their way into next spring after a very generous donation Thursday afternoon.The Prairie North Coop (PNC) presented the group with 75 bags of s...
Jun 03, 2021