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Supports for Canoe Lake student athletes
Students at Canoe Lake Miksiw School will be heading into 2020 with some new sports equipment. The early Christmas gifts are expected to touch down in the community this week thanks to the Saskatoon-b...
Dec 16, 2019 Students from Canoe Lake Miksiw school pose with Joel Pedersen of Fitness 2J2 (centre, kneeling). (Facebook/Fitness 2J2)
Duclair completes hat trick in overtime as Senators edge Blue Jackets 4-3
OTTAWA - Anthony Duclair couldn't have scripted a better ending. Duclair scored on the power play in overtime to complete the hat trick and give the Ottawa Senators a 4-3 win against the Col...
Dec 16, 2019
Arrest in RCMP secrets case touched off a flurry of activity at highest levels
OTTAWA - The head of Canada's spy agency was briefed two dozen times over a six-week period last fall about a security lapse at the national police force - an indication of the gravity of th...
Dec 16, 2019
School division staff get a lesson in Indigenous history
The division staff at Northwest No. 203 school board received an educational exercise in Indigenous culture and history. The school board engaged in the Kairos program exercises which, according to th...
Dec 16, 2019 Kairos blanket exercise. (Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)
Former Gary, Indiana, Mayor Richard Hatcher dead at 86
Former Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, who became one of the first black mayors of a big U.S. city when he was elected in 1967, has died. He was 86. Hatcher died Friday night at a Chicago hospital, said h...
Dec 16, 2019
Central African Republic ex-leader Bozize returns from exile
BANGUI, Central African Republic - Former Central African President Francois Bozize, who was ousted nearly seven years ago by a coalition of rebel groups, has returned from exile, his political party ...
Dec 16, 2019
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019
A sharecropper's son who rose through the seats of power to become one of the nation's most influential voices. A Republican who went on to lead the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal wing. A lauded writer ...
Dec 16, 2019
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019
A sharecropper's son who rose through the seats of power to become one of the nation's most influential voices. A Republican who went on to lead the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal wing. A lauded writer ...
Dec 16, 2019
Standing ovation in Milan for Domingo's 50th anniversary
MILAN - Opera star Placido Domingo received a standing ovation for his 50th anniversary gala concert at La Scala on Sunday and returned the appreciation with a rare a cappella performance. Standing al...
Dec 16, 2019
Thompson mum on whether contract could keep him from Canadian team action
TORONTO - Tristan Thompson's contract status could keep him from playing for Canada's men's basketball team at its Olympic qualifying tournament this summer. The 28-year-old from Brampton, Ont., was h...
Dec 16, 2019