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Housing evacuees may become more challenging as more are displaced by wildfires
Frustration is growing among those evacuated from their homes due to northern wildfires. Weldon McCallum is the emergency evacuation coordinator for the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation working with the Canadian Red Cross and the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA), but he says processing times to receive services fro...
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Charges upgraded
Charges against Shoal Lake woman upgraded to second degree murder
Charges against a woman accused of killing a child in the community of Shoal Lake, east of Carrot River, have been upgraded from manslaughter to second-degree murder. The RCMP announced Friday that after more investigation and after talking to Public Prosecutions, the manslaughter charge against Karrena Young will be w...
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Saskatchewan

Shifting winds
Friday wildfire update; smoke hampering firefighting efforts
The number of wildfires burning in the province dropped overnight from 17 to 16. A fire burning near Christopher Lake was contained and is no longer considered a wildfire of note issued in the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency's (SPSA) daily wildfire bulletin.The massive Shoe Fire has now charred 305,000 hectares and i...
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Mayor credits Montreal Lake firefighters for saving parts of Weyakwin
The mayor of a northern hamlet evacuated due to wildfires is crediting firefighters from Montreal Lake Cree Nation for saving parts of his community. "They made the difference," said Weyakwin Mayor Medrick Thomas. "We would have lost the north end. We would have structures and trailers and all of that bu...
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Evacuees step up for shelter pets amid wildfire chaos
The decisions can be overwhelming for a person forced to evacuate due to a wildfire. What documents to pack? What family keepsakes to take? Where to go?This week, dozens of people in the Flin Flon and Creighton area made another decision: to help.On Tuesday, the wildfire that had started near Creighton on the Saskatche...
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Smokey Air
Air quality advisory issued for Central Saskatchewan
The wind has shifted. Smoke from the wildfires in the north is now blowing into more south and eastern areas of the province. Echoing the warning issued by Environment Canada, the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority is advising people to take precautions. "Smoke can cause increased coughing, throat irritation, ...
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Canada

Search to resume for children almost a month after they disappeared from N.S. home
LANSDOWNE STATION - A search for two young children who went missing almost a month ago is set to resume Saturday in a remote corner of northeastern Nova Scotia. On May 2, four-year-old Jack Sullivan and his six-year-old sister Lilly Sullivan were repo...
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B.C. man who got $8M says he'll be penniless if made to pay sex assault damages
VANCOUVER - A B.C. man who was awarded $8 million after being wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and spending 27 years in prison says he'll be left "homeless and penniless" if forced to pay civil damages to victims who won a lawsuit against him. T...
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Ottawa's plan to 'fast-track' infrastructure doesn't go far enough: Poilievre
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the government's plan to circumvent the Impact Assessment Act to speed up key infrastructure projects doesn't go far enough. Taking questions from reporters in Ottawa today, Poilievre wouldn't say whet...
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Prematurely born harbour seal Zeus is rescued in British Columbia
VANCOUVER - A prematurely born harbour seal nicknamed Zeus has been rescued after being found alone on the shores of White Rock, B.C. Lindsaye Akhurst, senior manager of the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society, says the pup was underweight...
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Festival attack suspect Adam Lo in court, as judge receives fitness assessment report
VANCOUVER - Lapu Lapu Day festival attack suspect Adam Kai-Ji Lo has appeared by video in Vancouver Provincial Court, as preparations to determine if he's fit to stand trial continue. Lo appeared on screen dressed in a dark blue sweatshirt as his lawye...
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Carney says he has no immediate plans to overhaul municipal funding
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa probably can't undertake a thorough overhaul of how municipalities are funded in the near future, with the federal government now focused on major projects. Carney spoke this morning to the Federation of ...
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