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Provincial jobless down year-over-year but local stats remain high
The Saskatchewan government is hailing the latest job stats that show a year-over-year net increase of 9,000 jobs. However, the opposition New Democrats are focusing on the month-over-month stats whic...
Mar 08, 2019 (File photo/Tyler Marr paNOW Staff) : Glenn Hicks
The Cruze cruises: GM assembly plant closing, maybe for good
LORDSTOWN, Ohio - The last compact car rolled off the line Wednesday at General Motors' massive assembly plant in Ohio as the automaker began moving toward its future while workers wondered about thei...
Mar 08, 2019
A timeline of the SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA - A chronology of the SNC-Lavalin controversy, according to public documents, reports and testimony to the House of Commons justice committee: Feb. 19, 2015 - The RCMP lays corruption and fraud...
Mar 08, 2019
‘Mission accomplished’: Province celebrates official opening of Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford
Mission accomplished.Those were the words of former Prairie North Health Region CEO David Fan as politicians and health care workers gathered to mark the grand opening of the Saskatchewan Hospital Nor...
Mar 08, 2019 Premier Scott Moe was on hand for the official grand opening of the new Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff) : Tyler Marr
Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served years in prison for leaking one of the largest troves of classified documents in U.S. history, has been sent to jail for ...
Mar 08, 2019
Federal Conservatives not introducing non-confidence motion against Trudeau
ROSSER, Man. - Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he will not be introducing a motion of non-confidence against Justin Trudeau despite saying the prime minister has lost the moral authorit...
Mar 08, 2019
Battleford's Ag Society Evening Out
The Battleford Ag Society's Evening Out will be March 9 at the Agrivilla Hall in North Battleford. Supper by Second to None and Entertainment by Jesse Lewis - Hypnosis. Dancing with The Prairie Dogs. ...
Mar 08, 2019 : Karen Cay
Judge: Census citizenship question is a threat to democracy
SAN FRANCISCO - The Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census "threatens the very foundation of our democratic system" because it would cause a significant under...
Mar 08, 2019
Sanders' 'Medicare-for-all' expands long-term care benefits
WASHINGTON - Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the stakes of the "Medicare-for-all" debate by expanding his proposal to include long-term care. That could force other Democratic presidential candidates t...
Mar 08, 2019
Dissent among Dems postpones action on anti-Semitism measure
WASHINGTON - House Democrats on Wednesday postponed indefinitely a vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism after a contentious meeting in which some new members confronted leaders over their pus...
Mar 08, 2019