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‘Absolutely crazy:’ Residents allege rising tension, call for greater enforcement at housing complex
Make people follow the rules and enforce disciplinary action when they don't.That is what residents at Valleyview Towers 2 say is not being done by management as they allege rising tension among tenan...
Jun 19, 2019 Residents at Valleyview Towers 2 allege rising tension and deteriorating living conditions as a wave of new and younger residents move in. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Saskatchewan to continue using 'birth alerts' despite calls by inquiry to stop
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government says it will continue to track or seize at-risk babies despite a call to stop from the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls....
Jun 19, 2019 Saskatchewan legislature. (file photo/CKOM News Staff)

UN high commissioner urges redress as Canada responds to MMIWG inquiry
OTTAWA - Canada's response to the conclusions of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls should include some form of redress for the victims and their families, says the Unite...
Jun 19, 2019

Man who stole human skull and kept it as 'curiosity' sentenced to jail
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A young Newfoundland man who robbed a human skull from a cemetery and kept it in his possession for more than a year as a "curiosity item" has been sentenced to four months in&...
Jun 19, 2019

Trial hears man shot at least nine times by Manitoba RCMP officer
THOMPSON, Man. - The manslaughter trial of an RCMP officer in northern Manitoba heard a man was shot at least nine times by the constable. Const. Abram Letkeman is on trial for the 2015 death of Steve...
Jun 19, 2019

Saskatchewan adds residents once again
Saskatchewan's population is continuing its upward trend.According to numbers released Wednesday by Statistics Canada, the number of people living in the province increased by 10,295 people in the pas...
Jun 19, 2019 (Submitted photo/CJME News)

B.C. mom tells inquest of son's descent into drugs, finds him 'gone' in bedroom
VICTORIA - Rachel Staples let out the dog, started brewing coffee and then immediately felt panic as she walked up to her son's room on April 20 last year, she told a coroner's inquest Monda...
Jun 19, 2019

Make passports free to ease new no-fly list measures, federal panel suggests
OTTAWA - A federal advisory panel says Ottawa should consider making passports free to everyone for one year to ease the introduction of new no-fly list procedures. The coming changes ...
Jun 19, 2019

Trudeau promises to legislate implementation of UNDRIP if re-elected
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising that a re-elected Liberal government will introduce legislation to ensure federal laws are harmonized with the United Nations Declaration on the Rig...
Jun 19, 2019

Stay of proceedings after Jaspal Atwal accused of uttering threats
SURREY, B.C. - The BC Prosecution Service says it won't pursue a charge of uttering threats against the man who sparked a political firestorm when he attended an event during Prime Minister ...
Jun 19, 2019