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Halifax constables given suspended sentences and probation for 2016 inmate death
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge on Monday handed two special constables with Halifax police suspended sentences with three years probation in the June 2016 suffocation death of an inm...
Aug 17, 2020

Jazz trio headed to She-NANIGANS performance venue
Jazz aficionados will be in their element when this Saskatchewan trio comes to She-NANIGANS Thursday.The Remainders Jazz Trio, comprised of Marc Holt on saxophone and other woodwinds instruments, Mich...
Aug 17, 2020

One new case of COVID-19 in the province
There is one new case of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, bringing the total amount to 1,581.The new case is in the South West zone. Of the total cases, 172 are active. There have been 1,387 recoveries. Eigh...
Aug 17, 2020

Five things to know about the Conservative party leadership race, ending Sunday
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party will announce the winner of its leadership contest on Aug. 23. Nearly 269,500 people are eligible to vote for the new leader, which is roughly 10,000 ...
Aug 17, 2020

Next Conservative party leader best not take Alberta for granted: MPs
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner is warning whomever her party elects as their new leader this weekend needs to be prepared with robust policy for the West. Rempel Garner, an Alberta MP...
Aug 17, 2020

Cancelled season just the latest financial challenge for CFL
Financial challenges are nothing new for the CFL. The league has faced problems across the country - and even in the United States in the 1990s - many times the past few decades. While thing...
Aug 17, 2020

In 'The 24th,' police brutality and unrest, 103 years ago
NEW YORK - The sole photograph related to the Houston Riot of 1917 shows 64 Black soldiers sitting with arms folded and legs crossed behind a rope. Their sheer number, in a courtroom otherwise populat...
Aug 17, 2020

Search continues for missing 11-year-old girl
Cut Knife RCMP still require public assistance in locating 11-year-old Leksi Jimmy.An 11-year-old Indigenous female, Jimmy was last seen on Poundmaker Cree Nation back on August 5 and the investigatio...
Aug 17, 2020

Beavers look to extend finals series as scene shifts to NB
In a season filled with many unique challenges, the North Battleford Beavers face perhaps their biggest task yet Monday evening.As the team returns to Beaver Lions Stadium for Game 2 of the North Sask...
Aug 17, 2020

Police called when B.C. little league finds it bank accounts emptied of $230,000
COQUITLAM, B.C. - A little league baseball club in Metro Vancouver says it has contacted RCMP after discovering hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from its accounts. A statement posted by the pr...
Aug 17, 2020