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AP Source: Chance MLB won't play increases in money fight
NEW YORK - Major League Baseball might not play at all this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players' association on how to split up money in a season delayed by the coronavirus p...
Jun 15, 2020
Clearwater River Dene Nation Chief says community is better informed to handle spike in COVID-19 cases
Clearwater River Dene Nation is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases but the chief is confident the community can handle it. Chief Teddy Clark told meadowlakeNOW the community now has a total of 15 active...
Jun 15, 2020
AP Exclusive: DOJ sets new dates to begin federal executions
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a months-long legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since ...
Jun 15, 2020
SARCAN Meadow Lake reopens
SARCAN in Meadow Lake has reopened today after months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The facility closed its doors to the public on March 21. Kathy Williamson, manager of the local depot tol...
Jun 15, 2020
'It's frustrating': Trump advertising blast has limits
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's campaign manager warned in late spring that his juggernaut political operation - the "Death Star," he called it - was about to start "pressing FIRE" for the first...
Jun 15, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. on June 15, 2020: There are 99,091 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 54,054 confirmed (inclu...
Jun 15, 2020
Judge concerned over time it's taking to hear Meng Wanzhou's extradition case
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court judge in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition case says she's concerned by the length of the proceedings. During a case management conference on Mon...
Jun 15, 2020
A look at some highlights of the Saskatchewan budget
REGINA - Premier Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party government presented its 2020-21 budget built around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some of the highlights: - A $2.4-billion deficit with...
Jun 15, 2020
Wayne Embry says if given the choice to play amid racial unrest, he would
TORONTO - Wayne Embry remembers the shock and sorrow that swept through the Boston Celtics when Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated hours before Game 1 of the 1968 Eastern Division fina...
Jun 15, 2020
Feds to consider non-traditional data in pandemic aid rework, Morneau says
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government will look at how measures to revive the economy from its pandemic-induced freeze will impact women and men differently. He also sug...
Jun 15, 2020