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William Powell scores three TDs as Roughriders trounced Lions 45-18
VANCOUVER - A trio of touchdowns from William Powell helped the Saskatchewan Riders to a 45-18 win over the listless B.C. Lions on Saturday. The Riders (3-3) dominated the game from the outset, with t...
Jul 27, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson. (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Liam Richards/Electric Umbrella)
RCMP getting air support from military in hunt for homicide suspects
GILLAM, Man. - A military aircraft has arrived in northern Manitoba to assist RCMP in the hunt for two young homicide suspects, while police officers have begun visiting every home and building in the...
Jul 27, 2019
After childhood tragedy, Roughriders Thigpen finds footing in football
Tragedy followed Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Marcus Thigpen throughout his childhood, with the death of a close friend still weighing heavily on his mind. "I took a van that (belonged to my)...
Jul 27, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Marcus Thigpen during a practice on July 25, 2019. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
New greenhouse set to bring food, medicine to Sask. First Nations
A new greenhouse in Treaty 4 is in the works to bring food and medicine to Saskatchewan First Nations. On Friday, the File Hills Qu'Appelle (FHQ) tribal council and Farm Credit Canada agreed to constr...
Jul 27, 2019 Minister Ralph Goodale (top left), File Hills Qu’Appelle tribal chief Edmund Bellegarde (top right), Farm Credit Canada president Michael Hoffort and File Hills Qu’Appelle Developments president and CEO Thomas Benjoe announced a partnership agreement to build a greenhouse together on Treaty 4 territory on July 26, 2019. (Nathan Meyer/980 CJME)
Hong Kong police fire tear gas, clear protesters by force
Hong Kong police on Saturday fired tear gas, swung batons and forcefully cleared out protesters who defied warnings not to march in a neighbourhood where last weekend a mob apparently targeting demons...
Jul 27, 2019
Four of nine aboard dead in float plane crash on remote B.C. island
VICTORIA - Four people have been confirmed dead with five others injured in a float plane crash on an uninhabited island off the northern end of Vancouver Island. Lt. Chelsea Dubeau with the Joint Res...
Jul 27, 2019
Italy says 2 US teens confess in slaying of Rome policeman
ROME - Italian police said Saturday that two 19-year-old American tourists have confessed in the fatal stabbing of an Italian paramilitary policeman who was investigating the theft of a bag. In a stat...
Jul 27, 2019
Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents
OTTAWA - Top civil servants have been told that their departments don't know what the jobs of the future will look like and that employers' demands for skills will change more and more frequently in t...
Jul 27, 2019 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a press conference at the BC Transit corporate office to announce new investments to improve transit in Victoria on Thursday, July 18, 2019. Internal government documents show federal officials are working through the summer to come up with the right policies so whoever forms the next government can help the country rightly, and quickly, adjust to a shifting economic landscape. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. The court's five conservative j...
Jul 27, 2019
Highway 1 memorial cross near Emerald Park goes missing
In 1974, 11-year-old Susan Lapchuk was struck and killed while riding her bicycle along Highway 1. Now, 45 years later, her family is forced to relive the tragedy after discovering her memorial cross ...
Jul 26, 2019 Don and Myrna Lapchuk pose for a photo beside their daughter's memorial cross on Highway 1 near Emerald Park. (Doug Lapchuk/Submitted)
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Murray Wood: Local radio is strong. Corporate ownership, not so much
Murray Wood says Rogers closed some stations that should be very viable. As a result, more communities are losing import...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, July 10
On Friday's show, Evan talked about the fire and flood season in the province, the final hometown show for the Canadian ...