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Clearwater River Dene Nation Chief says community is better informed to handle spike in COVID-19 cases
Clearwater River Dene Nation is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases but the chief is confident the community can handle it. Chief Teddy Clark told meadowlakeNOW the community now has a total of 15 active...
Jun 15, 2020
AP Exclusive: DOJ sets new dates to begin federal executions
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a months-long legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since ...
Jun 15, 2020
'It's frustrating': Trump advertising blast has limits
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's campaign manager warned in late spring that his juggernaut political operation - the "Death Star," he called it - was about to start "pressing FIRE" for the first...
Jun 15, 2020
North Battleford reinstating fire pit inspections
Since the provincial government is relaxing some COVID-19 requirements, North Battleford firefighters are now able to resume inspection for fire pitsThe city had originally announced inspections were ...
Jun 15, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. on June 15, 2020: There are 99,091 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 54,054 confirmed (inclu...
Jun 15, 2020
Judge concerned over time it's taking to hear Meng Wanzhou's extradition case
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court judge in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition case says she's concerned by the length of the proceedings. During a case management conference on Mon...
Jun 15, 2020
A look at some highlights of the Saskatchewan budget
REGINA - Premier Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party government presented its 2020-21 budget built around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some of the highlights: - A $2.4-billion deficit with...
Jun 15, 2020
Wayne Embry says if given the choice to play amid racial unrest, he would
TORONTO - Wayne Embry remembers the shock and sorrow that swept through the Boston Celtics when Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated hours before Game 1 of the 1968 Eastern Division fina...
Jun 15, 2020
Feds to consider non-traditional data in pandemic aid rework, Morneau says
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government will look at how measures to revive the economy from its pandemic-induced freeze will impact women and men differently. He also sug...
Jun 15, 2020
Tradition was important factor in planning of Canadian Triple Crown races
TORONTO - The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a change of dates for Canada's Triple Crown races but it wasn't going to force Jim Lawson to switch either the order or d...
Jun 15, 2020