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North Stars host Bombers in showdown at Battleford Arena
Surging off four-straight road victories, the Battlefords North Stars return to the ice Friday night in front of the hometown crowd. Looking to stay hot, the team will welcome the Flin Flon Bombers to...
Oct 11, 2019 There’s never a shortage of conversation between the benches when the North Stars and Bombers come together. The fued has become one of the premier interdivisional rivalries in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League thanks largely to the team’s recent playoff history. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Shepard Smith leaves Fox News Channel
NEW YORK - Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on a network dominated by supporters of President Trump, says he is leaving the network. His last broadcast ...
Oct 11, 2019
Jagmeet Singh ignores surging Bloc as he courts union votes in Quebec
MONTREAL - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh painted his Liberal, Conservative, and Green rivals as unfriendly to to the labour movement on Wednesday, as he sought to shore up his party's traditional...
Oct 11, 2019
Annual Influenza Vaccine Clinics To Start Week Of October 21
Saskatchewan residents with a valid health card can get their flu shot starting the week of October 21 at public health clinics, local pharmacies, and some physician and Nurse Practitioner offices. "A...
Oct 11, 2019
California adopts broadest US rules for seizing guns
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against ...
Oct 11, 2019
Riders’ Idowu worked hard to live up to standard set by older brother
Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Oluwaseun Idowu battled literally and figuratively to get out from under his brother Olatunji's shadow for most of his life."I can't tell you how much in high schoo...
Oct 11, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Oluwaseun Idowu (49) during practice on Oct. 9, 2019. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Syrian restaurant owners filing complaint about hate messages, Toronto cops say
TORONTO - A Toronto family who said it was forced to close their popular Syrian restaurant after receiving a series of hate messages and death threats has filed a complaint with ci...
Oct 11, 2019
Laverdiere homicide suspects Sangster, Checkosis appear in court
Two suspects in Tiki Brook-Lyn Laverdiere's homicide, including one who was stabbed while in remand, were back in court Friday morning.Brent Checkosis is facing 14 charges, including accessory after t...
Oct 11, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Riders ready for first-place showdown with Stamps
A pair of Micahs are excited to make their returns to McMahon Stadium on Friday.Defensive lineman Micah Johnson played six seasons with the Calgary Stampeders before signing with the Saskatchewan Roug...
Oct 11, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive tackle Micah Johnson (2) at practice on July 29, 2019. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
For 1st time, Biden declares Trump must be impeached
ROCHESTER, N.H. - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own reele...
Oct 11, 2019