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Baseball Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins to have statue erected in Chatham, Ont.
CHATHAM, Ont. - Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins will be honoured by his hometown with a new statue. The city of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario will unveil a nine-foot tall bronze ...
Feb 22, 2023

Nearly 70 children now believed to have died at former B.C. residential school site
Editor's Note: This story addresses tragedies at former residential school sites and may be unsettling for some readers. Discretion is advised. Direct links to support resources are included at the bo...
Feb 22, 2023

NDP MP urges feds to create 'Red Dress Alert' for missing Indigenous women
OTTAWA - An NDP member of Parliament is asking the federal government to establish a system that would send the public a phone notification when an Indigenous woman goes missing. Leah Gazan penned a l...
Feb 22, 2023

Battlefords Concern For Youth gives positive report
Battlefords Concern For Youth gave an update on its activities at Town of Battleford council meeting Tuesday. Executive director Dani Williams said the youth engagement position has been seeing contin...
Feb 22, 2023

Sask. offers hope to cancer patients in form of new treatment
Gary Carriere was told more than once he was going to die.The cancer survivor from Cumberland House underwent aggressive chemotherapy and a stem cell transfer before travelling to Montreal to receive ...
Feb 22, 2023

Day 5 of competition begins for Team Saskatchewan at the Winter Games
Team Saskatchewan added a couple more medals to its haul following Day four at the Canada Winter Games in PEI.The province's flagbearer, Luca Veeman took silver in the men's 1,500m speedskating while ...
Feb 22, 2023

Biden: Putin's suspension of arms treaty with US a 'mistake'
WARSAW (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin made a "mistake" by suspending his country's participation in the the last remaining U.S.-Russia nuclear arms con...
Feb 22, 2023

Democratic Sen. Jon Tester to run for 4th term in Montana
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana said Wednesday he will seek reelection to a fourth term in 2024, a boost to Democrats' hopes of maintaining a seat in the Republican-leaning stat...
Feb 22, 2023

Palestinians: 6 killed in Israeli army raid in West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian officials say at least six Palestinians have been killed and dozens were wounded in an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. They say that a 72-year-old man was...
Feb 22, 2023

Germany expels 2 Iranian diplomats over death sentence
BERLIN (AP) - Germany said Wednesday that it is expelling two Iranian diplomats over the death sentence imposed in Iran against one of its citizens. Authorities in Iran announced Tuesday that Jamshid ...
Feb 22, 2023