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Roughriders announce final details of vaccination policy
The CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders have finalized their COVID-19 vaccination policy - and it includes a pre-screening plan to ease congestion at Mosaic Stadium when the policy takes effect Friday.On A...
Sep 15, 2021

‘We are really nervous’: Experts weigh in on Saskatchewan’s fourth wave
With Saskatchewan reporting the most COVID-19 cases we have seen since the start of the pandemic, more experts around the province are sounding the alarm.Dr. Alex Wong, an infectious disease physician...
Sep 15, 2021

Annual Ears and Beers Fundraiser to return to Battlefords Friday
The Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will hold their sixth annual Ears and Beers Fundraiser, Friday, Sept. 17 at the Battleford Legion Hall.One of the biggest fundraisers of the year for ...
Sep 15, 2021

Desmond inquiry: former soldier sought counselling the same day he killed his family
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - Less than a month before Lionel Desmond killed his wife, mother, daughter and himself in 2017, the Afghanistan war veteran called a community group near his home in Nova Scotia...
Sep 15, 2021

OHL to require proof of full vaccination at Ontario facilities beginning Sept. 22
TORONTO - The Ontario Hockey League will now require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 for entry into all 17 of its facilities across the province starting Sept. 22. The move comes after the ...
Sep 15, 2021

First Nation opens water treatment plant, ending decades-old drinking water advisory
SHOAL LAKE, ONTARIO, CANADA - Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is welcoming clean, running water for the first time in nearly 25 years. The First Nation on the Manitoba-Ontario boundary is celebrating today...
Sep 15, 2021

Courses to prevent office harassment mandatory for new MPs by end of year
OTTAWA - Newly elected MPs will be required to take a training course to prevent sexual harassment in their offices. The awareness course will educate new MPs on what counts as harassment - and how to...
Sep 15, 2021

Colorado AG: Probe finds Aurora Police racially biased
DENVER (AP) - Colorado's attorney general said Wednesday that a civil rights investigation begun amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that the Aurora Police Department has pattern o...
Sep 15, 2021

Maidstone RCMP execute arrest following public tip
Maidstone RCMP have arrested and charged three people with multiple offences, following a brief pursuit.Officers responded to a call in the Town on September 10, where they located a grey SUV with two...
Sep 15, 2021

Milley defends calls to Chinese as effort to avoid conflict
WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, saying the conversations were...
Sep 15, 2021