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Supreme Court to review Ontario ruling that jeopardized multiple verdicts
TORONTO - Canada's highest court agreed Thursday to review an Ontario ruling that could cause scores of criminal cases in that province to be thrown out over how changes ...
May 07, 2020
NBCHS Come Together first decade reunion moved to next year
For Patty Francescone who graduated North Battleford Comprehensive High School (NBCHS) in 1981, the days of her youth were a time for forming friendships and achieving new goals. She will join hundred...
May 07, 2020 Co-chairperson Bob Coates shown outside NBCHS. The Come Together NBCHS first decade reunion is now planned for July 30 to 31, 2021. (Submitted photo/Bob Coates)
Leafs forward Alexander Kerfoot looks back at up-and-down start in Toronto
TORONTO - Alexander Kerfoot has been waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic like most NHL players. There's been board games with family, backyard competition, workouts, Netflix, some reading and plent...
May 07, 2020
Texas salon owner jailed for defying governor's order freed
DALLAS - A Texas salon owner who was jailed for defying Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's public health orders walked out free to cheering supporters on Thursday, shortly after the governor weakened his m...
May 07, 2020
Presidential politics, sidelined by pandemic, poised for Trump-fuelled comeback
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's re-election efforts appear to be showing new signs of life despite lingering concerns about whether the accelerated reopening in parts of the United States could prompt a s...
May 07, 2020
Provincial COVID-19 total at 531, 19 new cases in northern half of Saskatchewan
All of the 19 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan are in the province's northern half, with 12 in the La Loche area outbreak.The new confirmed cases brings the provincial total to 531. Of that numbe...
May 07, 2020 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Evan Radford/980)
'Let's Make a Deal' asks frontline staff to join its special
NEW YORK - Wayne Brady and the folks at "Let's Make a Deal" want to honour those fighting the coronavirus - and they don't have to wear their capes if they don't want to. The CBS daytime game show tha...
May 07, 2020
Butler's prescient sci-fi resonates years after her death
NEW YORK - Novelist N.K. Jemisin was a teenager the first time she read Octavia Butler, and nothing had prepared her for it. It was the 1980s, and the book was called "Dawn," the story of a black woma...
May 07, 2020
US consumer borrowing fell for first time since 2011
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer borrowing fell in March for the first time in more than eight years, with the category covering credit cards dropping by the largest amount in over three decades, the Federa...
May 07, 2020
La Scala opens virtual tour during coronavirus lockdown
Milan's famed La Scala opera house on Thursday unveiled a virtual journey through its ornate premises and rich archives via Google Arts & Culture, with serendipitous timing as theatres throughout ...
May 07, 2020