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Canadian Pacific Railway issues 72-hour lockout notice on Teamsters Canada
CALGARY - Close to 3,000 employees of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. could be off the job early Sunday morning. Calgary-based CP Rail said in a release Wednesday that it has issued 72-hour notice to th...
Mar 16, 2022

NDP, Regina physician call on province to do more to keep doctors
Dr. Tomi Mitchell has run a medical clinic in Regina for more than a decade, but she's shutting those doors."What I see right now is beyond tragic. I took an oath over a decade ago to do my best as a ...
Mar 16, 2022

New community care home coming to Melfort
The City of Melfort will be home to a new care home for people with disabilities.At a city council meeting on March 14, Saskatchewan Housing Corporation (SHC) was granted discretionary approval for th...
Mar 16, 2022

Two Ontario students survive Texas crash that killed nine
HOBBS, N.M. - Nine people have died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authori...
Mar 16, 2022

NHL Notebook: A look at how some NHL coaches navigate the looming trade deadline
Bruce Boudreau was running a recent practice when one of his players skated over for a chat. The Vancouver Canucks head coach assumed winger Conor Garland was going to ask him about trade speculation....
Mar 16, 2022

CRTC bans Russian state-run broadcaster RT from Canadian airwaves
OTTAWA - Canadian broadcasters are no longer allowed to distribute Russia's state-run broadcaster, RT, after the federal regulator found the programming has targeted Ukrainians during the ongoing Russ...
Mar 16, 2022

B.C. premier raises concerns to prime minister about job impact of fish farm closures
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying federal salmon farm transition plans threaten hundreds of jobs and the economies of coastal...
Mar 16, 2022

Veteran Canadian offensive lineman Duvernay-Tardif hits NFL free-agent market
For the first time in his NFL career, Canadian offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a free agent. The six-foot-five, 321-pound Duvernay-Tardif hit the open market Wednesday afternoon as an unr...
Mar 16, 2022

Canada's Maddie Szeryk and Jaclyn Lee using Epson Tour event to ramp up golf season
A handful of Canada's best women golfers are looking to get into the swing of things this week on the Epson Tour. Six Canadians will tee off at the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic on Thursday, t...
Mar 16, 2022

Canada's Bennedict Mathurin has had long, interesting road to NCAA stardom
Bennedict Mathurin has led the way for a resurgent University of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team that is ready to hit the dance floor at the 2022 NCAA Tournament. The 19-year-old sophomore guar...
Mar 16, 2022