Links Season
Humboldt, Prince Albert, and Battlefords golfers inside top 5 after day 1 of Junior Golf Championships
Day one of the 2025 Saskatchewan Junior Golf Championships is now complete, with day two currently underway.Hosted at the Lloydminster Golf and Curling Centre, the tournament has numerous local players near the top of the leaderboards Wednesday.Starting with the JR Male Golfers (Back Tees), Prince Albert's Wyatt Nelson...
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wildfire season
Emergency coordinator says more wildfire prevention needed, highway remains closed for northern community
The emergency management co-ordinator for the English River First Nation says more should have been done to prevent wildfires before they became an imminent threat.After an early and active start to the wildfire season, fires are still threatening multiple communities in northern Saskatchewan. Beauval has been under an...
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Saskatchewan
'Surprised, disappointed': Sask. policing minister wants more details on Blackmore ouster
Saskatchewan's corrections, policing and public safety minister says he was surprised and disappointed when he found out Rhonda Blackmore had been removed as the head of the Saskatchewan RCMP."We, as a province, were very pleased with the service being provided by Rhonda Blackmore as our commanding officer, and if...
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Fire losses
Denare Beach residents have mixed reactions on gov't wildfire funding
While clean-up efforts are just beginning on Denare Beach, the village's mayor said any dollar it receives helps."We appreciate everything we get," said Carl Lentowicz. "But a lot of people have lost everything."The provincial government is committing $20 million to help communities with wildfire re...
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From Pen To Performance: Josh Stumpf Talks Music On The Closeup
Photo Credit: Dale Peters/DMDS Josh Stumpf joins us on the Saskatchewan Country Closeup. We talk new music, songwriting and what's on the way. ...
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Day one recap
Canada drops World Cup opener to New Zealand
Canada got off to a rough start at the 18th WBSC Men's Softball World Cup in Prince Albert, falling 8-3 to New Zealand on day one of the tournament.New Zealand figured out Canadian starter Sean Cleary right out of the gate, scoring two runs in their first at bat while adding another in the second to go up 3-0.Canada ma...
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Canada
Canada continuing to lag in the number of EV charging stations needed to meet goals
OTTAWA - Canada still doesn't have the network of public charging stations it needs to meet its electric vehicle goals, researchers say. With a little more than 35,000 charging stations in service across the country, Canada is falling well short of the...
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Quebec won't accept some applications for sponsorship of immigrants until 2026
MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it won't accept new applications from residents who want to sponsor their spouses, common-law partners or adult children for immigration until next year. The Immigration department says in a news release that it ha...
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Quebec government reassigns head of auto insurance board amid scandal
QUÉBEC - The Quebec government has reassigned the president and CEO of the province's auto insurance board. Éric Ducharme's dismissal from the top job was confirmed by a government source who was not authorized to speak publicly. Ducharme was appointed...
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Armed forces needs to strengthen screening to weed out extremists: expert
OTTAWA - Terror charges laid against members of the Canadian Armed Forces over an alleged plot to form an anti-government militia show the military needs to do a better job of vetting at the recruitment stage, an expert in extremism said Wednesday. Uni...
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Defence expected to find operational savings even as its budget balloons
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence will not be spared from Prime Minister Mark Carney's cost-cutting drive - even though overall defence spending is set to balloon in the coming years. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters ...
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Ottawa’s national security review, shutdown order ‘procedurally unfair': Hikvision
OTTAWA - A Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems says the national security review process that led the federal government to order it to shut down its Canadian operations was unfair. Hikvision makes the arguments in a court filing challenging a...
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