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SaskAlert test scheduled for Wednesday afternoon
Radios, TVs and cellphones across Saskatchewan will be emitting a loud squawk Wednesday afternoon.At about 1:55 p.m., the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency is to conduct a test of the SaskAlert system...
Nov 15, 2022

McCarthy clears first step to House speaker, but grind ahead
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican leader Kevin McCarthy cleared the first major step Tuesday toward becoming House speaker, winning majority support from colleagues on a secret ballot. He now faces a weeks...
Nov 15, 2022

Blue Bombers star quarterback Collaros headlines 2022 CFL all-star team
TORONTO - Zach Collaros of the Grey Cup-bound Winnipeg Blue Bombers headlines the CFL's 2022 all-star team. The 27-player all-star roster was released Tuesday by the CFL in advance of the league champ...
Nov 15, 2022

Auditor general finds aging icebreakers, aircraft hamper monitoring of Arctic waters
More than a decade of delay and inaction has left the ships, planes and satellites that Canada relies on to monitor its rapidly opening Arctic on track to be retired before they can be replaced, the a...
Nov 15, 2022

Trudeau deletes tweet that cited false information in denouncing the Iranian regime
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office says it deleted a tweet that his account posted overnight denouncing the Iranian regime based on false information that had been circulating on social m...
Nov 15, 2022

Judge overturns Georgia's ban on abortion after 6 weeks
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge overturned Georgia's ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling Tuesday that it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it w...
Nov 15, 2022

Health Canada won't say how much new kids' pain medicine coming, where it's going
OTTAWA - Health Canada officials say more doses of children's painkillers and fever medication will be available soon but it won't say how many or where exactly they'll be sent. Senior officials are a...
Nov 15, 2022

AthletesCAN latest organization to join federal government's Abuse-Free Sport
OTTAWA - AthletesCAN, the association of Canada's national team athletes, has joined Abuse-Free Sport, the federal government's new program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport. AthletesCAN wi...
Nov 15, 2022

Police: Knife used in targeted attack of dead Idaho students
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Four University of Idaho students found dead in an off-campus home were targeted and the killer or killers used a knife or other "edged weapon," police disclosed Tuesday. Investiga...
Nov 15, 2022

Russian parliament displays art by Griner case figure Bout
MOSCOW (AP) - A show of prison artwork by Viktor Bout, the Russian arms trader serving 25 years in the United States and the focus of speculation about a prisoner swap that could free WNBA star Brittn...
Nov 15, 2022