Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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SaskPower launches energy assistance program
A number of lower-income households in Regina and Saskatoon soon could be saving money on their power bills. SaskPower announced Friday it's looking for a total of 400 volunteers from the province's t...
Jan 31, 2020
US advises no travel to China, where virus deaths top 200
BEIJING (AP) - The U.S. advised against all travel to China as the number of cases of a worrying new virus spiked more than tenfold in a week, including the highest death toll in a 24-hour period repo...
Jan 31, 2020 Travellers wear facemasks as a screen shows a video about the proper way to wear a mask at the Beijing Railway Station on Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Chinese tourists cancel trips to Canadian hotspots such as Banff, Yellowknife
Tour companies and hotels in destinations popular with Chinese tourists are starting to see cancellations after a new form of virus that has led to mass quarantines and 170 deaths in China. The virus ...
Jan 31, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Four facing human trafficking charges after arrests near Swift Current
Four people from B.C. are facing charges relating to human trafficking after three vehicles were pulled over on the Trans-Canada Highway near Swift Current. In a media release Thursday, the RCMP said ...
Jan 30, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
UN agency declares global emergency over virus from China
BEIJING - The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of c...
Jan 30, 2020
Debate to enact new continental trade pact kicks off in House of Commons
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who presided over the talks that led to a new North American free trade deal, urged the opposition parties to get on with enshrining the revamped pact...
Jan 30, 2020 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Chrystia Freeland rises for debate on the USMCA trade agreement in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Jan. 30, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Harsher penalties for distracted driving coming soon
Harsher penalties for distracted driving kick in on Saturday. On Feb. 1, the fine for a first infraction will double to $580, to go with four demerit points. "The good thing is, it's optional. You don...
Jan 30, 2020 (Government of Saskatchewan handout)
Vanessa Bryant statement: ‘We are completely devastated’
Vanessa Bryant made her first public comment Wednesday since the helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe Bryant, one of their daughters and seven others, taking to Instagram to thank people for ...
Jan 30, 2020 FILE - This Feb. 26, 2018 file photo shows Vanessa Bryant, from left, Kobe Bryant, Natalia Bryant and Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant at the world premiere of "A Wrinkle in Time" in Los Angeles. Bryant, a five-time NBA champion and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, died in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. He was 41. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
China counts 170 virus deaths, new countries find infections
BEIJING (AP) - China counted 170 deaths from a new virus Thursday and more countries reported infections, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home...
Jan 30, 2020 Residents scuffle with police officers during a rally to protest the government's decision to quarantine South Koreans returning from Wuhan in their home town in Jincheon, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. (Lim Hun-jung/Yonhap via AP)
Trump’s defense shifts to not ‘impeachable’ even if true
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a striking shift from President Donald Trump's claim of "perfect" dealings with Ukraine, his defense asserted at his Senate trial that a trade of U.S. military aid for political f...
Jan 30, 2020 In this image from video, Alan Dershowitz, an attorney for President Donald Trump, answers a question during the impeachment trial against Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)
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Sarah Mills: World Cup dreams are made
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8:30 - Another school year has wrapped up, and report cards are out! Everett Hindley, Saskatchewan's Minister of Educati...