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The latest from the Toronto Raptors Game 5 in the NBA Finals
TORONTO - 11:40 p.m. Fans in Toronto's Jurassic Park were in agony as the Raptors came back to take the lead late in the fourth quarter only to fall to the Warriors. Some fans clasped their ...
Jun 12, 2019
The latest from the Toronto Raptors Game 5 in the NBA Finals
TORONTO - 11:40 p.m. Fans in Toronto's Jurassic Park were in agony as the Raptors came back to take the lead late in the fourth quarter only to fall to the Warriors. Some fans clasped their ...
Jun 12, 2019
Victoria police chief hands out hefty fine to driver who flicked lit butt
VICTORIA - A "lit"terbug was issued a hefty fine after Victoria's police chief caught him flicking a cigarette butt out his car window. Chief Const. Del Manak said he was travelling on a highway in hi...
Jun 12, 2019
Game 5 loss is ancient history to "live in the moment" Toronto Raptors
OAKLAND, Calif. - Live in the moment. It's been the Toronto Raptors' mantra all season. Never get too high after wins. Never too down after losses. Two days after the Raptors were an agonizing basket ...
Jun 12, 2019
Committee of MPs decides against calling for school-bus seatbelts
OTTAWA - A committee of MPs who probed bus-passenger safety in Canada has decided not to call for seatbelts to be installed in Canadian school buses, urging further study instead. The H...
Jun 12, 2019
APAS calls on governments for drought assistance
The drought conditions in Saskatchewan this spring have prompted the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) to call for help.In a media release issued Wednesday, APAS revealed it ha...
Jun 12, 2019 Cracked Earth Drought The Dry Ground Dry Soil
Mosquito First Nation appoints first female senator
Elder Jenny Spyglass has become the first female appointed to Battlefords Agency Tribal Council (BATC) and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) Senate from Mosquito Grizzly Bear's Head Le...
Jun 12, 2019 Chief Tanya Aguilar-Antiman (holding the microphone), alongside Jenny Spyglass (right), as the latter became the first female senator from Mosquito Grizzly Bears Head Lean Man First Nation. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Husky to pay $3.82M in penalties after guilty plea in 2016 oil spill
A judge has accepted a joint submission that will see Husky Oil Operations pay $3.82 million in fines for charges stemming from a 2016 oil spill near Maidstone.The company pleaded guilty to three envi...
Jun 12, 2019 Images submitted to court show an overhead view of the bridge over Highway 21 and oil slicks in the North Saskatchewan River. (submitted/Saskatchewan Courts)
Court ruling expands Alberta's Blood reserve, Canada's largest
OTTAWA - Canada's largest Indigenous reserve is about to get larger. Federal Court has found that the federal government underestimated the members of the Blood Tribe in southwestern Alberta when thei...
Jun 12, 2019
Styrofoam take-out boxes and straws among expected targets of plastics ban
OTTAWA - A national ban on the most harmful single-use plastics will very likely force restaurants and fast-food outlets to find non-plastic materials for takeout and delivery containers but plas...
Jun 12, 2019