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Jeff Shattler scores hat trick, four assists to lead Rush past Roughnecks
SASKATOON - Jeff Shattler had a hat trick and four assists to lead the Saskatchewan Rush over the Calgary Roughnecks 15-9 on Saturday in National Lacrosse League action.Mark Matthews, Ryan Keenan, Rob...
Mar 03, 2019 The Saskatchewan Rush defeat the Calgary Roughnecks 15-9 on March 2, 2019. (Saskatchewan Rush/Twitter) : Tyler Marr
Meadow Lake Telemiralce raises over $32K
People in the northwest stepped up to ring those phones for the province's favourite annual telethon.Telemiracle 43 in Meadow Lake wrapped up Sunday at the Civic Centre after raising $32,451 over the ...
Mar 03, 2019 The Meadow Lake Telemiracle raised over $32,000. (supplied photo/Matt Ryan) : Tyler Marr
Fleury gets second straight shutout, Vegas beats Canucks 3-0
LAS VEGAS - Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 19 shots to earn his second straight shutout and lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 3-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday. Fleury moved within one vict...
Mar 03, 2019
Defending Iditarod champ remains self-proclaimed 'goofball'
WILLOW, Alaska - Joar Leifseth Ulsom may not be flashy or brash, but he has sled cred. The quiet, unassuming 32-year-old defending champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race leads the field of 52 mu...
Mar 03, 2019
Nathan Cullen joins long list of NDP MPs who won't seek re-election
OTTAWA - Nathan Cullen, one of the NDP's best known and most effective MPs, is calling it quits. The northern British Columbia MP announced Friday that he won't seek re-election this fall. That m...
Mar 03, 2019
New impact assessment bill for energy projects to get major changes in Senate
OTTAWA - The federal government's promised overhaul of environmental evaluations for energy projects is poised for a major Senate surgery, but the upper chamber must race to pass the bill be...
Mar 03, 2019
Appeals Court upholds landmark ruling ordering tobacco companies to pay billions
MONTREAL - In what is being described as a major defeat for the tobacco industry, the Quebec Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a landmark judgment ordering three companies to pay bi...
Mar 03, 2019
Parents blame North Korea's 'evil regime' for son's death
CINCINNATI - Unlike President Donald Trump, Otto Warmbier's parents don't believe North Korea's leader. The parents of the American college student who was sent home from North Korea in a vegetative s...
Mar 03, 2019
Pot confiscation at Canadian border increased in weeks after legalization: stats
OTTAWA - New statistics show the number of cannabis confiscations at the Canadian border increased more than 60 per cent year-over-year in the first six weeks after pot legalization. The Can...
Mar 03, 2019
Alberta ban on school seclusion rooms comes with possible exemptions
EDMONTON - Alberta Education Minister David Eggen says schools and parents will be able to request exemptions to a ban on seclusion rooms that will take effect this fall. Eggen stresses that...
Mar 03, 2019