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‘Clients fall off:’ Calgary program helps recently released prisoners with hep C
CALGARY - Imagine adjusting to life after serving prison time, then add mental-health struggles, addiction or homelessness. Now, throw in hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that can cause serious liver ...
Jun 23, 2019
La Ronge RCMP search for escaped inmate
RCMP in northern Saskatchewan are asking for help in locating an inmate who escaped a "non-secure" correctional facility vehicle Friday afternoon. According to a news release issued Saturday night, Mo...
Jun 23, 2019 Grant Kenneth McKenzie, 30, was last seen in La Ronge in the area of Brown Street and La Ronge Avenue on June 21, 2019. (La Ronge RCMP)
SaskTel SecurTek customers receive false tornado warning
As Environment Canada issued funnel cloud advisories Saturday morning, some SaskTel SecurTek customers received a bright red notification about a tornado warning instead. The alert, which read: "Sever...
Jun 22, 2019 Some SaskTel SecurTek customers received a false tornado warning alert from their security systems on June 22, 2019. (Tenille Lafontaine/Twitter)
Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria
VICTORIA - Indigenous drummers in British Columbia are leading an anti-pipeline protest along a 22-kilometre route today that passes through Victoria and ends at a beach south of the city. Hundreds of...
Jun 22, 2019 Demonstrators march down Government Street during a protest against the approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline, in Victoria on Saturday, June 22, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dirk Meissner
Funnel cloud advisories lifted for central, SE Sask.
The funnel cloud advisories Environment Canada issued for most of central and southeastern Saskatchewan Saturday morning were lifted early Sunday. The advisories stretched as far north as Prince Alber...
Jun 22, 2019 (File photo by Kelly Harmsworth/Submitted)
7 workers dead, 23 injured in Cambodia building collapse
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia - A seven-story building under construction in Cambodia's coastal city of Sihanoukville collapsed on workers housed inside early Saturday, killing seven workers and injuring 23...
Jun 22, 2019
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s chief of staff resigns
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford's chief of staff resigned Friday night after a string of controversies in the government's first year that culminated in the premier rescinding the lucrative appoin...
Jun 22, 2019 Dean French, centre, chief of staff for Doug Ford, listens to the Ontario Premier speak at the Ontario PC Convention in Toronto, on Friday November 16, 2018. Ontario Premier Doug Ford's chief of staff has resigned. In a statement, Ford says Dean French will be returning to the private sector. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Drone company wins innovation award at Farm Progress Show
Flying robots may soon become the norm on farms in Saskatchewan if Precision AI achieves its goal. The company uses drones with artificial intelligence to automatically survey fields and differentiate...
Jun 22, 2019 Precision AI drone on display at Canada's Farm Progress Show in Regina on June 19, 2019. (Andrew Shepherd/980 CJME)
Fiery plane crash claims 9 people on Oahu’s North Shore
HONOLULU - Nine people died in a fiery crash of a small airplane used in a sky dive operation, officials in Hawaii said. There were no survivors after the twin engine King Air plane crashed Friday nig...
Jun 22, 2019
Rainfall warnings lifted in southwestern Sask.
Environment Canada lifted its rainfall warnings in southwestern Saskatchewan late Saturday afternoon. A slow moving low pressure system in Montana pushed a swath of precipitation into the province on ...
Jun 22, 2019
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Sarah Mills: Doug Ford may be cutting his nose off to spite his face
A Republican congresswoman is fighting back against Ontario's US booze ban, and Sarah Mills says Premier Doug Ford may f...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, July 9
On Thursday's show, Evan discussed the new downtown arena developments, gets the latest on the Iran/U.S. conflict and Sh...