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'Simply spectacular': Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital promises new chapter for health care in Saskatchewan
It truly is a made in Saskatchewan vision come to life.Nearly five years after a historic groundbreaking, the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital is open and many say it will usher in a new, state-of-the...
Sep 05, 2019 An example of a pediatric intensive care room. It has space for families to stay with their children overnight. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Joshua Boyle's lawyers want charge of misleading police thrown out
OTTAWA - Lawyers for former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle want a judge to toss out a charge that he misled police - one of several criminal counts he faces in Ontario court. Boyle, 36, has ple...
Sep 05, 2019
Calls for right whale protections ahead of eastern premiers, governors meeting
Massachusetts' attorney general is calling for political leaders in eastern North America to commit to stronger protections of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Maura Healey addressed...
Sep 05, 2019
Captain Tyler Ardron to lead Canada's 31-man squad at Rugby World Cup in Japan
Tyler Ardron captains a Canadian side with few surprises for the Rugby World Cup kicking off later this month in Japan. Ardron, a powerful back-rower who plays his club rugby in New Zealand for t...
Sep 05, 2019
Big spender: Alberta panel says savings to be found in health, education changes
CALGARY - A panel looking into Alberta's finances says the province habitually overspends on its services and needs to get tough on schools, have university students pay more and force ...
Sep 05, 2019
Trump again attacks 'Will & Grace' actress Debra Messing
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump is again attacking Debra Messing, calling the liberal activist and "Will & Grace" star a racist and saying she should be fired from the NBC sitcom. Messing apolog...
Sep 05, 2019
Rare, two-headed rattlesnake found in New Jersey forest
PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - It looks like something from a science fiction movie. A newborn two-headed timber rattlesnake has been found in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. Herpetological Associates of Burli...
Sep 05, 2019
China uses arbitrary detentions as 'tool' to achieve 'political goals': Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says China uses arbitrary detentions as a tool to achieve its international and domestic political goals. He brands that as a pressure tactic that is worrying no...
Sep 05, 2019
Fajardo, Roughriders talking ‘a little bit’ about contract extension
Cody Fajardo is running the Saskatchewan Roughriders' offence this season, and there's apparently work being done to keep him in the Green and White.The first-year starting quarterback currently has t...
Sep 05, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Cody Fajardo. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Ontario woman among Hurricane Dorian victims in the Bahamas
The family of a woman from Windsor, Ont., says she has died in the Bahamas as a result of Hurricane Dorian. A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise money to bring the body of Alishia Sabrina Lio...
Sep 05, 2019