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How one of Canada’s worst mass killings unfolded across northern Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - The first thing Malcolm Ryan noticed were the fires. Ryan, 81, looked out his bedroom window at about 11:15 p.m. Saturday and across the Portapique River, where he saw a wharf and, further d...
Apr 23, 2020 An RCMP investigator inspects a house destroyed by fire in Wentworth Centre, N.S. on April 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Nova Scotia RCMP officers shot at rural fire hall during search for killer
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog is investigating why two RCMP officers started shooting at a fire hall while a killer disguised as a Mountie was on the loose. Pat Curran, interim director of t...
Apr 23, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Canada’s COVID death toll passes 2,000; Trudeau pledges $1.1B for research
TORONTO - Canada's COVID-19 death toll passed the 2,000 mark on Thursday as scientists across the country scrambled to find ways to mitigate the pandemic in the form of a treatment or vaccine and Sask...
Apr 23, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Easing COVID-19 restrictions presents challenges between provinces: experts
Infectious disease experts say provinces looking to relax restrictions related to COVID-19 need to consider their neighbours. Prince Edward Island, where the caseload is low, is aiming to ease measure...
Apr 23, 2020
Police have ‘good idea’ guns used in N.S. mass shooting were not licensed
HALIFAX - Police say the man who went on a murderous rampage through five Nova Scotia communities was likely using unlicensed firearms, and investigators are trying find out how he obtained illegal we...
Apr 23, 2020
Preventive measures at Alberta meat plants came too late to stop outbreaks
CALGARY - The rapid spread of COVID-19 at Canada's meat-packing plants isn't a surprise, say union and health officials. Fabian Murphy, president of the Agriculture Union, which represents federal mea...
Apr 23, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Nati Harnik
Country Thunder organizers taking wait-and-see approach
Gerry Krochak would like to be able to predict the future for Country Thunder Saskatchewan, but he admitted Wednesday his crystal ball "is a bit fuzzy right now." Krochak, the director of marketing an...
Apr 22, 2020
22-year-old man killed in two-vehicle crash east of Chaplin
A 22-year-old man is dead after a two-vehicle collision Tuesday on the Trans-Canada Highway east of Chaplin. According to the Morse RCMP, officers responded at 6 p.m., to the scene of a crash about 17...
Apr 22, 2020
Military called in to help RCMP investigation of shooting rampage in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - The Canadian military has been called in to help the Nova Scotia RCMP investigate one of the largest mass murders in the country's history. The military issued a statement saying it has prov...
Apr 22, 2020 An RCMP investigator inspects a house destroyed by fire in Wentworth Centre, N.S. on April 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Crashes down in Sask. during pandemic, many cancelling plates
As people hide away, isolating themselves and physically distancing against the pandemic, fewer people are out on the roads. With fewer vehicles on the roads, there have been fewer crashes. SGI's prel...
Apr 22, 2020 SGI's preliminary numbers show that, while fewer people have been out and about during the pandemic, claims were down 30 per cent for March. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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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...