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Dual-sport athlete
Meadow Lake athlete receives Saskatchewan Games Athletic Award
Combined competitive performance, strong leadership skills, good sporting conduct, and a spirit of fair play, cooperation, and friendship; all the qualities that led to Ezri Vidal of Meadow Lake being named the recipient of the 2024 Lorne Lasuita Saskatchewan Games Athletic Award. Vidal, who competed in basketball and ...
18h ago
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Crime
Pierceland RCMP arrest man wanted on firearm, weapons charges
Pierceland RCMP have arrested a 23-year-old man who was wanted after shots were fired at a home on Big Island Lake Cree Territory. The incident happened on Nov. 5, but police say they have arrested the man responsible for pulling the trigger. RCMP located and arrested Trent Oseemeemow at a residence on Big Island Lake ...
Dec 19, 2024
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HIGHWAY HOTLINE
Highway updates: Snowy conditions and reduced visibility across N.B. and M.L roads
With the show flurrying part of the Saskatchewan area, the latest Highway Hotline report said that the roads surrounding North Battleford and Meadow Lake are mostly covered in snow, and drivers will experience lousy visibility.North Battleford: Partly Covered, Ice, Loose Snow, Snow Drifts, Swirling Snow and Drifting Sn...
Dec 19, 2024
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Door of Hope party
Door of Hope to bring good cheer
The Door of Hope is set to spread some Christmas cheer this Friday and a few famous faces are expected to make an appearance. "We will have a Christmas meal for all of our Door of Hope family members and we're going to be giving gifts to each person that (steps) into the building," said Delton Sylvain, Meadow...
Dec 18, 2024
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Saskatchewan

Santa Stop
Santa makes special stop at Jim Pattison Children's Hospital
Santa is making sure everyone is in the holiday spirit this Christmas, especially those away from home.On Thursday, he visited the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital (JPCH) as part of the JPCH Foundation's (JPCHF) 'Project Holiday Joy' initiatives. President and CEO of the foundation, Brynn Boback-Lane said the visit is ...
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Family fun
Massive snow shark lands on Prince Albert family's yard
A Prince Albert family is swimming in festive spirit.Using ice and now, Steven Fraser and his three young daughters carved a massive shark sculpture, which now sits prominently outside their house on Lacroix Cres. Fraser revealed to paNOW the family had done something similar several years ago when they lived at La Ron...
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Leadership
Riders coaching staff remains mostly unchanged for 2025
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are keeping things mostly consistent when it comes to Cory Mace's coaching staff.J.C. Sherritt is the only member from the 2024 group to not return with reports indicating he has accepted the role of defensive co-ordinator for Mark Kilam's staff with the Edmonton Elks.Travis Brown joins the...
Dec 19, 2024
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wages and class complexity
Sask. teachers, government wrap binding arbitration hearing
The binding arbitration hearing between the Teachers' Bargaining Committee and the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee concluded Wednesday shortly after 6 p.m. in Saskatoon.Written positions on wages and class complexity-accountability framework were shared during the three days of presentations.The arbitration boa...
Dec 19, 2024
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dismissing regulations
Sask. to ignore federal Clean Energy Regulations despite changes
Despite changes made within the final Clean Energy Regulations (CER) published by the federal government this week, the Government of Saskatchewan continued to dismiss the regulations themselves and the authority behind them.The provincial government has been railing against the iterations of the draft regulations for ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Correcting mistakes
New federal commission established to review potential wrongful convictions
Having spent 23 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, David Milgard dedicated the rest of his life to advocating for others who had been wrongfully convicted.And that passion has led to the Royal Assent of David and Joyce Milgaard's Law, which establishes a federal independent commission whose job it will be t...
Dec 18, 2024
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Canada

Overheated immigration system needed 'discipline' infusion: minister
OTTAWA - An "overheated" immigration system that admitted record numbers of newcomers to the country has harmed Canada's decades-old consensus on the benefits of immigration, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said, as he reflected on the changes in his department in a year-end interview. The system, he said, n...
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Music maker, 88, creates unique horn section, with moose antler bass guitar and cello
Eighty-eight-year-old Lorne Collie has been making musical instruments for more than three decades, creations that dazzle for their unique materials as much as their sound. There's a hefty bass guitar and a cello made of moose antlers, a baseball bat violin, ukuleles made of cookie tins, and guitars fashioned from pitc...
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B.C. mayor gets calls from across Canada about 'crazy' plan to recruit doctors
The mayor of the suburban Victoria community of Colwood says he's getting calls from municipal leaders across Canada who have heard about his community's "out-of-the-box" plan to recruit family doctors as city workers. Mayor Doug Kobayashi announced this week that Colwood has hired its first family doctor for...
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces new lieutenant-governor for B.C.
VICTORIA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the appointment of longtime businesswoman and philanthropist Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia as British Columbia's 31st lieutenant-governor. Trudeau says in a statement that Lisogar-Cocchia is a respected entrepreneur in the hospitality industry and a dedicated community lea...
12h ago
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Politics
Singh says NDP will bring forward a non-confidence motion to bring government down
The New Democrats will bring forward a non-confidence motion to bring down the Liberals in the next sitting of the House of Commons, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Friday.In the latest blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's struggling Liberal government, Singh wrote a letter addressed to Canadians in which he doubled d...
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What happened during the fall sitting of the House of Commons, by the numbers
OTTAWA - The fall sitting of the House of Commons featured non-confidence votes, plenty of partisan bickering, and very little actual passing of laws. The session that ended Dec. 17 will go down as one of the least productive in Canadian history, and possibly one of the most partisan. Here's a look at what happened, by...
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World News

Death toll in attack on Christmas market in Germany rises to 5
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) - The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five, the state governor said Saturday. Saxony-Anhalt Gov. Reiner Haseloff also said that more than 200 people in total were injured, many seriously, when a Saudi doctor intentionally drove a b...
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Senate passes Social Security benefits boost for many public service retirees
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people, pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year. The bipartisan bill, which next heads to President Joe Biden, will eliminate longtime re...
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A Missouri judge says the state's abortion ban isn't enforceable, ensuring legal abortions
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A judge ruled Friday that Missouri's near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, ensuring abortion will be legal in the state. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang issued an order blocking the state's strict abortion law after a new abortion-rights co...
11h ago
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A Missouri judge says the state's abortion ban isn't enforceable, ensuring legal abortions
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A judge ruled Friday that Missouri's near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, ensuring abortion will be legal in the state. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang issued an order blocking the state's strict abortion law after a new abortion-rights co...
11h ago
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Missouri governor commutes sentence of white police officer convicted of fatally shooting Black man
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's governor commuted the sentence of a white Kansas City police officer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man whose death fueled racial justice protests. Gov. Mike Parson commuted Eric DeValkenaere's sentence to time served on Friday, weeks...
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France's anti-terrorism court convicts 8 people of involvement in the 2020 beheading of a teacher
PARIS (AP) - France's anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty four years ago. Paty was killed outside his school near Paris on Oct. 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assaila...
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