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Injury woes grow for Canadian women at Rugby World Cup in New Zealand
Canada scrum half Brianna Miller has been ruled out of the remainder of the Rugby World Cup after sustaining "significant internal injuries" against Italy. Miller came off in the 64th minute last Satu...
Oct 20, 2022

N.W.T., Ottawa to spend $4.6 million to enhance wages for early childhood educators
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories and federal governments have announced $4.6 million in funding between 2022 and 2024 to enhance wages for early childhood educators in the territory. Licensed e...
Oct 20, 2022

Appeals court: Sen. Graham must testify in Georgia probe
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in G...
Oct 20, 2022

Padres turn to October ace Musgrove vs. Phillies in Game 3
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - There was at least one fuddy-duddy in San Diego who did not see the humor in a mural painted this week of the famous San Diego Chicken using his super-sized yellow foot to stomp on...
Oct 20, 2022

EPA starts civil rights probe into Mississippi water woes
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city b...
Oct 20, 2022

Liberal mandatory minimums bill doesn't go far enough: Murray Sinclair
OTTAWA - The former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says Liberal legislation to remove some mandatory minimum penalties from the Criminal Code doesn't go far enough. Murray Sinclair s...
Oct 20, 2022

Ilia Malinin headlines Grand Prix opener at Skate America
The new face of American figure skating began to play around with the quadruple Axel, that unicorn of a jump that had never been landed in competition, when he started to see some of the sport's best ...
Oct 20, 2022

Meadow Lake's Alger-East shines for NorthWest Stars
There's a familiar name near the top of the Saskatchewan U15 AA scoring charts for hockey fans in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake. U15 NorthWest Stars captain Kash Alger-East sits second in SAAHL scor...
Oct 20, 2022

Film and TV industry receives $7.5M boost from Saskatchewan government
Saskatchewan's government is giving the film industry another boost.The province announced Thursday it will be providing the Creative Saskatchewan Feature Film and Television Production Grant Program ...
Oct 20, 2022

One-year sentence for Saskatchewan man convicted of hate speech against Jews
ESTEVAN, Sask. - The former leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party was handed a one-year sentence Thursday on a hate speech charge after he called for the genocide of Jewish people in a video posted...
Oct 20, 2022