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Missing senior
RCMP searching for man known to frequent Battlefords area
Kindersley RCMP are asking the public for their help in locating a missing 89-year-old man. Frank Deitz was last seen on Dec. 11 in Kerrobert and is described as 5'11" tall and 150 lbs with blue eyes and short gray hair. Although it's unknown what he's wearing, police said he usually wears a black coat, western-st...
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Battlefords North Stars
Bombers top North Stars in first meeting of the season
The Battlefords North Stars were at the Access Communications Centre on Friday night and ended up falling 4-1 to the Flin Flon Bombers in their first matchup of the season.In the first period, the North Stars struggled to get things going and it was the Bombers who opened up the scoring with an early goal to take a 1-0...
Dec 14, 2024
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STRIKE IMPACT
'Work with what I've got': Spiritwood spa business battles postal strike to stay afloat
As the Canada Post strike nears its fifth week, a local health and wellness spa business owner said they are prepared not to gain any profits by the end of the year."I might as well not even bother, like I'm not even going to bother because there's just no way for me to get the specialized products I need for my b...
Dec 13, 2024
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Highway Hotline
Slick roads around the Battlefords and ML
Another update from the Highway Hotline warning residents of problematic areas around the Battlefords and Meadow Lake. As of the latest update, roads around North Battleford are snow packed, partly covered, have icy spots with swirling and drifting snow. La Loche and Meadow Lake are also facing partly covered, ice, and...
Dec 12, 2024
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Saskatchewan

Court
Cries of racism fill courtroom as judge stays impaired driving charge in Saskatoon
Tears and cries filled a packed Saskatoon provincial courtroom on Friday as Judge Jane Wooten stayed the case of a woman who struck and killed a nine year old girl on a crosswalk in Saskatoon in 2021, citing delays."You're forever going down as the white judge who upheld white supremacy," one woman bellowed.O...
16h ago
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Politics
NDP concerned Marshals Service 'poaching' from existing police forces
The Saskatchewan NDP is reiterating its concerns about the Saskatchewan Marshals Service (SMS), which is scheduled to launch earlier than expected.The province's newest police force is expected to be up and running next summer.While recruiting has begun to fill the 70 new policing positions, the NDP says the Marshals S...
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Court proceedings
Impaired driving charge in Kennedy case stayed due to delays
The court case of a woman accused of hitting and killing a nine-year-old Saskatoon girl in a crosswalk has been stayed due to delays.Taylor Ashley Kennedy was charged with impaired driving causing death in the 2021 crash that led to the death of Bayleigh Maurice. The nine-year-old girl was on her way to school, riding ...
Dec 13, 2024
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STRIKE IMPACT
'Work with what I've got': Spiritwood spa business battles postal strike to stay afloat
As the Canada Post strike nears its fifth week, a local health and wellness spa business owner said they are prepared not to gain any profits by the end of the year."I might as well not even bother, like I'm not even going to bother because there's just no way for me to get the specialized products I need for my b...
Dec 13, 2024
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Ongoing strike
Federal minister asks labour board to intervene in Canada Post strike
OTTAWA - Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says he is "calling a timeout" in the Canada Post strike, and asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board to send about 55,000 employees back to work.Mackinnon says the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are at an impasse after a nearl...
Dec 13, 2024
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New name
Canada's largest Cree-bilingual reflects on the legacy of Indian Residential Schools with its new name
After 10 months and 135 possible name suggestions, St. Frances Cree Bilingual School in Saskatoon will dawn a new name and that's reason to celebrate.The name selected is awâsisak kâ-nîmîhtocik- St. Francis School, the Cree portion of the name means 'children who dance.'"The name is not onl...
Dec 13, 2024
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Canada

In the news today: Canada Post operations to resume Tuesday: company
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada Post operations to resume Tuesday: company Mail will begin moving again on Tuesday as Canada Post employees return to work for the first time in more than a month after the federal government pushed to end the stoppage. Lab...
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Byelection in Liberal B.C. riding of Cloverdale-Langley City is new test for Trudeau
LANGLEY, B.C. - Voters in the Liberal-held British Columbia riding of Cloverdale-Langley City go to the polls today to pick a new member of Parliament, in another test for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Liberal candidate Madison Fleischer, a local business owner, will face Conservative Tamara Jansen who previously held...
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Canada's premiers meet in Toronto to talk tariffs, trade and health care
TORONTO - Canada's premiers are meeting in Toronto today, and cross-border trade is topping the agenda, on the heels of a tariff threat from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Trump is threatening to impose a 25 per cent import tariff on goods coming from Canada and Mexico when he takes office, until both countries sto...
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How toxic impact of Mount Polley disaster filters through B.C. waters, 10 years later
Former Xatsull First Nation chief Bev Sellars recalls an emergency meeting after the Mount Polley Mine disaster, where elders were in tears as they thought of fish swimming through the toxic waste that had inundated their territorial waters. She thinks of the 2014 disaster often. "There are physical changes you ca...
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'Smoke and mirrors': Quebec residents feel abandoned after August flooding
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has made payments in less than 10 per cent of the nearly 10,000 claims it has received since the remnants of Hurricane Debby hit the province in August, causing severe flooding and damage. In Montreal, which received a record-breaking 150 millimetres of rain during the storm, the govern...
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Ottawa to unveil economic update detailing deficit, new border security package
OTTAWA - The Liberal government in Ottawa is set to unveil its fall economic update today, its first spending package since Donald Trump won the November presidential election. Ottawa is expected to blow past its deficit target, but Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has said debt-to-GDP is still in decline. The update...
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World News

Middle East latest: Death toll from Israel-Hamas war tops 45,000. Israel strikes Syrian targets
Palestinian health officials said Monday the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war, now in its 14th month, topped 45,000 people. This comes as 52 dead arrived at hospitals across the bombed-out strip over the past 24 hours, including a family of four, in Gaza City overnight, according to Palestinian medics. The Israel-H...
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Death toll in Gaza Strip from Israel-Hamas war tops 45,000, Palestinians say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Health officials in the Gaza Strip say the death toll from the 14-month war between Israel and Hamas militants has topped 45,000 people. The Gaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, but it has said that more than half of the fatalities are...
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South Korean investigators request that impeached president appear for questioning over martial law
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean law enforcement authorities will request that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appear for questioning this week over his short-lived martial law decree as they expand a probe into whether his ill-conceived power grab amounted to rebellion. A joint investigative team involving pol...
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South Korean investigators request impeached president to appear for questioning over martial law
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean law enforcement authorities will request that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appear for questioning this week over his short-lived martial law decree as they expand a probe into whether his ill-conceived power this month grab amounted to rebellion. A joint investigative team in...
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West Africa regional bloc approves exit timeline for 3 coup-hit member states
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - West Africa's regional bloc, ECOWAS, approved Sunday an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations after a nearly yearlong process of mediation to avert the unprecedented disintegration of the grouping. "The authority decides to set the period from 29 January, 2025 to 29 July 2025 as a transiti...
21h ago
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Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam ball sells for $1.56 million at auction
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) - Freddie Freeman's historic walk-off grand slam ball from Game 1 of the World Series has sold for $1.56 million at auction. The bidding at SCP Auctions went into the late hours of Saturday night, according to a statement from the auction house on Sunday. It didn't say who bought the ball. Fr...
21h ago
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