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Pop-Up Artisan Market
The Mann Art Gallery, along with the Prince Albert Council for the Arts, is hosting a smaller, curated Pop-Up Artisan Market.Since the Evergreen Artisan Market has been postponed to November 2021, thi...
Oct 06, 2020
Misa Nikolic Running for Mayor
North Battleford's new Archivist and Senior Gallery Assistant at the Allen Sapp Gallery, Misa Nikolic, has entered the race for the City's top job.In response to the pandemic's effect on the city, he ...
Oct 06, 2020
Man charged in 2018 Fredericton murders listed people he believed to be demons
FREDERICTON - The trial of the man accused of four murders in Fredericton two years ago has been told Matthew Raymond spent much of the year before the shootings trying to identify demons. Raymond is ...
Oct 06, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Oct. 6
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. EDT on Oct. 6, 2020: There are 168,961 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 79,650 confirmed (including 5,884 deaths, 66,180 resol...
Oct 06, 2020
Former Liberal MP Raj Grewal, charged by RCMP, has case adjourned to January
OTTAWA - A former Liberal MP facing charges of fraud and breach of trust related to his time in office has had his case adjourned until early next year. Lawyers for Raj Grewal and the Crown agreed to ...
Oct 06, 2020
Town announces new CAO starting next week
The Town of Battleford has a new chief administrative officer (CAO) at the helm.Mayor Ames Leslie made the announcement at council's meeting Monday night.Ash Alam was selected for the position. Alam j...
Oct 06, 2020
Number of new COVID-19 cases in Quebec reaches record high for second straight day
MONTREAL - Health authorities in Quebec are reporting a record number of new COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row. There were 1,364 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province over the past ...
Oct 06, 2020
North Stars main camp kicks off at Civic Centre
The Battlefords North Stars kicked off their main camp this week, as players returned to the community - and the Civic Centre ice - following an extended summer hiatus. While there always seems to be ...
Oct 06, 2020
Liberals' 'supercluster' program falling short of promised jobs, economic growth
OTTAWA - The parliamentary spending watchdog says a government program to fuse public and private money to promote innovation appears to be well shy of its promise. The Liberals created their "supercl...
Oct 06, 2020
Green party won't support Liberals on throne-speech vote, new leader says
OTTAWA - New Green party Leader Annamie Paul says her party won't support the Liberal government's speech from the throne.Paul says there were some very good things in the Liberals' agenda-setting spe...
Oct 06, 2020