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Ottawa paid $75M for veterans’ cannabis last year, could pay $100M this year
OTTAWA - The federal government's effort to rein in the cost of reimbursing veterans for their medical marijuana appears to have failed as new figures show Ottawa shelled out a record $75 million in t...
Sep 05, 2019 Kirk Tousaw, a cannabis lawyer and CEO of Great Gardiner Farms Ltd., said there has been tremendous success since the legalization of pot. (THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO/Jonathan Hayward)
‘Please pray for our Bahamasland,’ Canadian victim wrote before Dorian hit
Hours before Hurricane Dorian pounded the Bahamas obliterating entire neighbourhoods, Alishia Sabrina Liolli asked her friends and loved ones on social media to pray for her family and the small islan...
Sep 05, 2019
Health Canada warns against modifying vape pens as illness spreads in U.S.
OTTAWA - People who vape should get medical attention right away if they're worried their electronic cigarettes are harming them, Health Canada said Thursday. The federal department said there is no s...
Sep 05, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Robert F. Bukaty
Rainfall has harvest well behind schedule
Farmers in Saskatchewan who were desperate for rain earlier this year now want it to stop. In its weekly crop report, Saskatchewan Agriculture said "frequent rainfall and cool weather" are delaying ha...
Sep 05, 2019 (980 CJME file photo)
Hurricane Dorian rakes Carolinas as it moves up the coast
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Hurricane Dorian raked the Carolina coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, spinning off tornadoes and knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes an...
Sep 05, 2019
Johnson seeks UK election bid as political foes push back
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson kept up his push Thursday for an early general election as a way to break Britain's Brexit impasse, as lawmakers moved to stop the U.K. leaving the European Union...
Sep 05, 2019
'It's almost impossible': Frustration in Regina over pipeline delays
The Federal Court of Appeal is going to allow six of the 12 proposed legal challenges to the Trans Mountain pipeline project to proceed. Before the decision on Wednesday afternoon, Regina Chamber of C...
Sep 05, 2019
Swoop plane makes emergency landing in Regina, passengers stranded
Swoop airlines passengers who had to make an emergency landing in Regina late Wednesday night spent much of Thursday stranded in the city. Passengers at the airport early Thursday morning didn't want ...
Sep 05, 2019 A stock photo of a Swoop Airlines plane. (Abbotsford Airport/Twitter)
Dorian, back to a Category 3 hurricane, creeps up US coast
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Hurricane Dorian, back to a Category 3 storm, began raking the Southeast U.S. seaboard early Thursday and left tens of thousands without power as it threatened to inundate low-...
Sep 05, 2019 Gordon and Dina Reynolds, with their 11-year-old granddaughter, Abby, sit on cots in the hall way of the North Myrtle Beach High School that is currently being used as a Red Cross evacuation shelter Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019 in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Weakened but still deadly, Hurricane Dorian crept up the Southeastern coast of the United States and millions were ordered to evacuate as forecasters said near-record levels of seawater and rain could inundate Georgia and the Carolinas. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP)
Investigators unable to determine cause of Halifax fire that killed seven children
HALIFAX - Nearly seven months after a devastating house fire claimed the lives of seven children, investigators in Halifax say they have been unable to determine the cause of the blaze. "Our firefight...
Sep 04, 2019 Halifax Fire and Emergency Chief Ken Stuebing, Deputy Chief Dave Meldrum and Deputy Chief Peter Andrews, left to right, head to an update on the investigation into the fire that killed seven children in February in Halifax on Sept. 4, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Sarah Mills: Volunteers are the beating heart of Saskatchewan
There are so many people who step up for organizations in our province, creating events and moments that wouldn't happen...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, June 19
**WITH GUEST HOST BRENT LOUCKS 8:30 - After four months, the U.S. and Iran seemed closer than ever to an agreement, an M...