Murray Wood: When football is just a game
There is extra anticipation around the Roughriders' first-place showdown with the Elks tonight. Murray Wood says everyon...
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‘There’s not really words to explain it:’ Student-athletes react to Kobe’s death
The deaths of NBA star Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna on Sunday left members of both the University of Saskatchewan's basketball teams struggling to find words to describe the tragedy. "He was ob...
Jan 28, 2020
Unifor-Co-op dispute not likely to affect gas prices: Analyst
As the labour fight between Regina's Co-op oil refinery and Unifor stretched into Day 54 Tuesday, a petroleum analyst said no matter how long it lasts or what the outcome of the dispute is, it's not l...
Jan 28, 2020
Regina mayor encouraged by silence following meeting between Unifor, Co-op
Regina Mayor Michael Fougere urged Unifor and Co-op to keep talking in hopes there will be a resolution to the ongoing labour dispute at the refinery. "The fact that they met (Monday) is a positive si...
Jan 28, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Canadian teacher in Wuhan thinks it’s best to hunker down, stay put
A Canadian teacher who lives in the Chinese city that is the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak says he has no plans to leave. Wayne Duplessis says he and his family are hunkered down in their home j...
Jan 28, 2020
RCMP secrets-case arrest triggered internal warnings, advisories to Mounties
OTTAWA - After the shocking arrest of one of their own on national-secrecy charges, rank-and-file Mounties were encouraged to get counselling if needed, decline to speak with the media and avoid the h...
Jan 28, 2020 Cameron Ortis, a senior intelligence official at the RCMP, leaves the courthouse in Ottawa with his lawyer Ian Carter, right, after being granted bail on Oct. 22, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
‘Like I’m trapped’: Africans in China lockdown see no escape
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The normally bustling supermarket in Wuhan was deserted, looking more foreign than ever. Khamis Hassan Bakari walked the aisles and saw just two other shoppers, and fear sank in. "...
Jan 28, 2020 This Jan. 27, 2020, photo, provided by Dr. Khamis Hassan Bakari of Tanzania, shows him posing for a photo in Wuhan, China. Bakari is among more than 4,000 African students in the Chinese city of 11 million people, and has been sending updates on social media about the outbreak of a new virus to the more than 400 other Tanzanian students in Wuhan, as China’s astonishing lockdown of more than 30 million people continues. (Khamis Hassan Bakari via AP)
Province highlights funding for licensed home-based daycares
Parents faced with a choice of wait lists for daycare centres or unlicensed day homes might soon see more options in the middle. The province is encouraging more people to get licensed to run home-bas...
Jan 28, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Feds’ electric-car rebate uses nearly half its three-year budget in eight months
OTTAWA - Transport Minister Marc Garneau is thinking about expanding the government's rebate program for people who buy electric vehicles after eager car-buyers gobbled up nearly half the funds in jus...
Jan 27, 2020
Leaders pay tribute, MPs call for justice for Canadians who died on Flight PS752
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute in the House of Commons to those who died on the Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet shot down outside Tehran earlier this month, as MPs fr...
Jan 27, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and house members observe a moment of silence for the victims of the Ukrainian Airlines plane shot down in Iran, before Question Period in the House of Commonson Jan. 27, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
U of R, U of S react to threat of coronavirus
The University of Regina is taking precautions in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in China. The university announced Monday it was cancelling all centrally organized and funded trips to China for...
Jan 27, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: History revealed in Ireland could teach Canada a lesson
Infant bodies have been excavated from a mother-and-baby institution near Galway. Sarah Mills says it shows a difficult ...
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