Murray Wood: Arrest in 2001 Saskatoon assault case should make perpetrators worried
A 52-year-old man has been charged in connection with a 2001 sexual assault allegation in Saskatoon. Murray Wood says he...
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Trump science adviser Scott Atlas leaving White House job
WASHINGTON - Dr. Scott Atlas, a science adviser to President Donald Trump who was skeptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak, is leaving his White House post. A White House official con...
Nov 30, 2020
Public health must balance science and society: former top doctor
EDMONTON - A retired top doctor says public health orders have to balance science with society if they are to be effective. "(Measures) will only work if you have a majority of the population that sup...
Nov 30, 2020
As Nova Scotia's mass shooting inquiry begins its work, many tough questions remain
HALIFAX - For eight long hours, Nick Beaton was in agony as he waited to learn what had happened to his missing wife. By the early afternoon on April 19, he knew a lone gunman disguised as a Mountie h...
Nov 30, 2020
Liberals take step on national child-care system, promise plan coming in 2021 budget
OTTAWA - The federal government is proposing millions of dollars in new spending as a down payment on a planned national child-care system that the Liberals say will be outlined in next spring's budge...
Nov 30, 2020
Highlights of the federal government's fiscal update
OTTAWA - Key elements from the federal government's fiscal update, delivered by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland Monday afternoon: A boatload of borrowing. The federal deficit is sailing toward $381...
Nov 30, 2020
Spending too little worse than spending too much, Freeland says in fall update
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's first fall mini-budget finds new funds for families and businesses and scratches a longtime provincial itch over transfer payments as she tries to find a ...
Nov 30, 2020
Ottawa beefs up loans for hard-hit sectors — but big airlines not included for now
Ottawa is rolling out a wave of new funding for pandemic-battered industries including tourism, the arts and regional aviation, with smaller companies top of mind - and large airlines notably absent. ...
Nov 30, 2020
Navy will decommission warship damaged in suspected arson
SAN DIEGO - The Navy said Monday that it will decommission a warship docked off San Diego after suspected arson this summer caused extensive damage, making it too expensive to restore. Fully repairing...
Nov 30, 2020
Review finds no evidence of alcohol game at B.C. ERs, but vast Indigenous profiling
VICTORIA - A former judge says she found widespread systemic racism in British Columbia's health-care system where extensive negative profiling of Indigenous patients affects treatment and care. Mary ...
Nov 30, 2020
Quebec urged to create provincial director of youth protection to oversee system
MONTREAL - A provincial commission looking into the protection of vulnerable children in Quebec recommended on Monday the appointment of a youth-protection director to oversee the entire provincial sy...
Nov 30, 2020
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Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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8:30 - Saskatchewan Ministers have been given a warning from the House Speaker about increased heckling, interruptions a...