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Creditor protection given to cigarette maker suspends order to pay billions to victims
MONTREAL - The Quebec Council on Tobacco and Health said Monday that smokers who won a recent court victory are being denied justice after an Ontario judge granted cigarette maker JTI-Macdon...
Mar 11, 2019
Crews battle fire at grain terminal north of city
Fire crews battled a fire at the Parrish & Heimbecker grain terminal north of North Battleford Monday night.Reports of smoke were called in around 6:10 p.m. and multiple tanker trucks and dozens o...
Mar 11, 2019 Smoke is seen billowing from the Parrish & Heimbecker terminal north of North Battleford. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
MMA fighter Conor McGregor arrested in South Florida
MIAMI - Authorities say mixed martial artist and boxer Conor McGregor has been arrested in South Florida for stealing the cellphone of someone who was trying to take his photo. According to a Miami Be...
Mar 11, 2019
Stars to face Bombers in quarterfinals
The North Stars were 1-2-1 over the four game season-series with the Bombers. The two teams combined for 31 goals, 274 penalty minutes through the four games. Since their win in the final game of the ...
Mar 11, 2019 The North Stars were 1-2-1 over the four game season-series
with the Bombers. The two teams combined for 31 goals, 274 penalty minutes through
the four games. (illustration/Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff) : Tyler Marr
Google paid former exec $35 million after harassment claim
SAN FRANCISCO - Google paid former search executive Amit Singhal $35 million in an exit package when he was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault investigation, according to court documen...
Mar 11, 2019
Crown, attorney general to appeal mosque gunman Alexandre Bissonnette's sentence
MONTREAL - Quebec's Crown prosecutors' office and the provincial attorney general will appeal the sentence handed down to the gunman who killed six worshippers in a Quebec City mos...
Mar 11, 2019
Multiple Sask. communities to receive family resource centres
Families with young children will soon be able to access reliable information, services and support to help raise healthy kids in the community. The province announced that The Battlefords, Meadow Lak...
Mar 11, 2019 (Submitted photo/Government of Saskatchewan) : Tyler Marr
Drive to ratify new North American trade deal gets lift from U.S. TV exposure
OTTAWA - The push for the speedy passage of the new NAFTA is getting a boost from a big advertising campaign in the United States. An alliance of U.S. companies, trade associations and lobbyists&...
Mar 11, 2019
Chance the Rapper marries longtime girlfriend
LOS ANGELES - Chance the Rapper tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend in a star-studded ceremony. The Chicago-based rapper posted several photos of him and Kirsten Corley on his Instagram and Twi...
Mar 11, 2019
The Latest: Witness: Rear of plane was smoking before impact
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local): 11:20 p.m. A witness to the Ethiopian Airlines crash says smoke was coming from the rear of the plane before it hit th...
Mar 11, 2019