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Petition calls for high school name change for RCMP officer killed in rampage
HALIFAX - An online campaign is seeking to change the name of a Nova Scotia high school to honour the RCMP officer killed during the shooting rampage that claimed 22 lives in the province earlier this...
Apr 27, 2020
Nearly 10,000 businesses apply for wage subsidy in first hours, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nearly 10,000 businesses have applied for the federal government's wage-subsidy program to help them deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergency measure ...
Apr 27, 2020
Lawyers and advocates ponder the future of the jury system with COVID-19
CALGARY - The president of the Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers is worried the justice system will try to delay jury trials as it deals with COVID-19 at the expense of the rights of those ...
Apr 27, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Nations, U.S. states each chart their own path on reopening
LONDON (AP) - A thinner-looking British Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to work Monday after a bout with the coronavirus and warned strongly against easing the country's lockdown, even as other ...
Apr 27, 2020 An employee walks past vehicles in production with a face mask in the VW plant in Wolfsburg, Germany on April 27, 2020. (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP)
Agribition will be held, open letter says
Organizers of Canadian Western Agribition say this year's show will go ahead. In an open letter posted on Twitter on Saturday, they say the show has weathered recessions, droughts and other various ch...
Apr 26, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Physical distancing a challenge for the blind in Saskatchewan
Keeping a proper social distance of two metres is not so simple for people who are blind or partially sighted. Ashley Nemeth is a Saskatchewan advocate for the blind community and for the Canadian Nat...
Apr 26, 2020 Ashley Nemeth and her guide dog. (Ashley Nemeth/Submitted)
With gatherings restricted, musician says COVID-19 results in loss of pay and passion
J.J. Hunter is used to spending summers working on the farm and performing for thousands of country music fans but COVID-19 is throwing at least one of those into limbo. Hunter and his four brothers -...
Apr 26, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Regina's shop preparing to re-open as Saskatchewan to start lifting COVID-19 restrictions
Some businesses in Saskatchewan are getting ready to open their doors to customers once again. After weeks of restrictions imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19, the Government of Saskatchewan has an...
Apr 26, 2020
Frozen North gone forever: Study of Arctic Ocean shows top of the world changing
The top of the world is turning upside down, says the first overall assessment of Canada's Arctic Ocean. The work of dozens of federal scientists and Inuit observers, it describes a vast ecosystem in ...
Apr 26, 2020 A
Prime Minister Trudeau taking cautious approach to economic recovery plans
COVID-19 claimed another 115 lives in Canada Saturday as the number of confirmed and presumptive cases across the country rose by nearly a thousand to 45,354. Despite the ongoing coronavirus carnage, ...
Apr 26, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Sarah Mills: World Cup dreams are made
The score may not have been ideal, but Sarah Mills says the World Cup experience was everything she hoped it would be.
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8:30 - Another school year has wrapped up, and report cards are out! Everett Hindley, Saskatchewan's Minister of Educati...