Murray Wood: A different kind of 'Mike' drop for Edmonton
Hurt Feelings Alert: Mike Babcock is taking over the bench of the underachieving Edmonton Oilers. Murray Wood says many ...
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Carbon tax causing SaskPower bills to increase Jan. 1
The federal carbon tax is to increase on Jan. 1, so SaskPower customers can expect their bills to go up that day as well. The Crown corporation noted Friday that the carbon tax applied to SaskPower's ...
Dec 13, 2019
As air rights rules set to land, Garneau readies to overhaul airport operations
OTTAWA - Federal regulators are hoping a wave of new air passenger rights arriving this weekend will take the humbug out of holiday travel. New rules will take effect on Sunday affecting flight delays...
Dec 13, 2019 Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, launches the final provisions of the Air Passenger Protection Regulations during a press conference at the Ottawa International Airport in Ottawa on Dec. 13, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Slower-than-expected economic growth to help Canada’s defence spending numbers
OTTAWA - The federal government is predicting Canadian defence spending will inch closer to its NATO promises in the coming years than originally expected - though not because Ottawa is planning to se...
Dec 13, 2019
UK’s Johnson claims Brexit mandate as Tories secure majority
LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament - a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johns...
Dec 13, 2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is greeted by staff as he returns to 10 Downing Street, London, after meeting Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace and accepting her invitation to form a new government on Dec. 13, 2019. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
Race to replace Scheer as federal Conservative leader could be crowded
OTTAWA - Moments after Andrew Scheer announced Thursday his intention to resign as Conservative party leader, speculation turned to who will replace him. Two of his prominent rivals in the 2017 leader...
Dec 12, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
House panel presses toward historic Trump impeachment vote
WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee pressed toward a historic vote Thursday to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Split sharply along party lines, the panel was exp...
Dec 12, 2019
Reactions to Scheer's resignation run the gamut in Regina
Andrew Scheer announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday in the House of Commons to applause and thanks, but the reaction halfway across the country in Saskatchewan was ...
Dec 12, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Official: Jersey City attack was ‘fueled’ by anti-Semitism
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - The two killers who stormed a kosher market in Jersey City were driven by hatred of Jews and law enforcement, New Jersey's attorney general said Thursday, adding that the case...
Dec 12, 2019 Workmen replace a window that was broken by gunfire at the Sacred Heart school in Jersey City, N.J., on Dec. 12, 2019. Investigators are looking to pinpoint what prompted a deadly attack on a Jewish market in Jersey City amid fears that it was motivated by anti-Semitism, as the nearby school reopened Thursday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New Zealand planning retrieval of bodies on volcanic island
WHAKATANE, New Zealand (AP) - A team of eight New Zealand military specialists will land on a small volcanic island early Friday to attempt to retrieve the bodies of eight victims of an eruption that ...
Dec 12, 2019 Relatives of volcano victim Hayden Marshall-Inman visit a flower tribute on the waterfront in Whakatane, New Zealand on Dec. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
UK voters decide who they want to resolve Brexit impasse
LONDON (AP) - U.K. voters were deciding Thursday who they want to resolve the stalemate over Brexit in a parliamentary election seen as one of the most important since the end of World War II. Voting ...
Dec 12, 2019 (The Associated Press)
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Sarah Mills: As the final school bell rings, let the summer begin
Sarah Mills says school is done for another year, so let's give thanks to all those who all those who make a positive im...
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8:30 - Premier Scott Moe is back from a trade mission to Europe that saw Saskatchewan sign new agreements on nuclear ene...