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Health-care and Education unions respond to provincial budget
Some of Saskatchewan's biggest health-care and education unions have spoken out following the tabling of the budget on Wednesday afternoon.The Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA) was hoping ...
Mar 22, 2023
Pierre Poilievre to get face time with U.S. President Joe Biden in Ottawa
OTTAWA - Official Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to meet U.S. President Joe Biden when he visits Canada this week. Senior U.S. administration officials confirmed in a briefing given on...
Mar 22, 2023
Former prime minister Stephen Harper says Canada needs a 'Conservative renaissance '
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper says Canada badly needs a "Conservative renaissance." Harper was speaking to a room of party faithful gathered in Ottawa for an annual networking conferen...
Mar 22, 2023
'Nobody's perfect,' Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly says as MPs chide Afghan evacuation
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says it was "a messy situation" trying to airlift Afghans who helped Canadian soldiers out of the country when the Taliban took over in August 2021. Joly ...
Mar 22, 2023
'He's a unicorn': Canucks star defenceman Hughes continues to grow his game
VANCOUVER - There's little Quinn Hughes does on the ice that shocks his Vancouver Canucks teammates anymore. At 23 years old, the American defenceman has already smashed records, and he appears poised...
Mar 22, 2023
Judge halts Wyoming abortion ban days after it took effect
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Abortion will again be legal in Wyoming - at least for now - after a judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a ban that took effect a few days earlier. Teton County District Court...
Mar 22, 2023
Turning Point Youth Centre plans live music concert fundraiser
The Turning Point Youth Centre in Meadow Lake is getting geared up to host its third annual Turn Fest event on Saturday, April 1. The show will include live music from: The Broken Lips, T.M.M.E, and s...
Mar 22, 2023
Police-reported hate crimes rise again, as pandemic worsens discrimination: StatCan
New figures released by Statistics Canada show hate crimes reported to police continued to spike across the country in the second year of the pandemic as people were targeted by race, religion and sex...
Mar 22, 2023
Cater Lake Wildlife Federation banquet to feature 'That Hunting Girl'
Cater Lake Wildlife Federation is looking forward to have well known outdoors woman, Amanda Lynn Mayhew, of the show That Hunting Girl, as a special guest speaker at its upcoming awards night banquet....
Mar 22, 2023
Police-reported hate crimes rise again, as pandemic worsens discrimination: StatCan
OTTAWA - New figures released by Statistics Canada show hate crimes reported to police continued to spike across the country in the second year of the pandemic as people were targeted by race, religio...
Mar 22, 2023