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Canadian mare Starship Jubilee captures $1-million Woodbine Mile
TORONTO - Canadian horse Starship Jubilee captured the Grade 1 $1-million Ricoh Woodbine Mile on Saturday. The seven-year-old champion mare, Canada's reigning horse of the year, posted an unoffic...
Sep 19, 2020

Forge FC downs HFX Wanderers in Canadian Premier League championship game
CHARLOTTETOWN - The Canadian Premier League is just two years old but it's already clear who is the team to beat. Forge FC won the CPL title for the second straight year Saturday, defeating HFX Wander...
Sep 19, 2020

B.C. migrant, undocumented workers rally for permanent residency program
VANCOUVER - Migrant workers and advocates called for a "just recovery" from the COVID-19 pandemic during a digital rally on Saturday. Chit Arma, who chairs the Migrant Workers Centre in Vancouver, say...
Sep 19, 2020

Rustic Market on for a good cause
The hot summer sun returned on Saturday afternoon, as people wandered around the south parking lot of the Art Hauser Centre with snow cones and cotton candy.Carved wooding signs, Harry Potter scarves,...
Sep 19, 2020

Fatal vehicle collision south of Stanley Mission
One person has died as a result of a single-vehicle collision on Highway 915, that occurred 15 kilometres south of Stanley Mission at 3:50 a.m. Saturday morning. Of the five occupants in the car, one ...
Sep 19, 2020

Métis Nation-Saskatchewan president tests positive for COVID-19
The president of Mtis Nation-Saskatchewan has tested positive for COVID-19.In a Facebook post on Friday, the Mtis Nation-Saskatchewan page confirmed president Glen McCallum tested positive for the cor...
Sep 19, 2020

Some highlights from the life and career of former prime minister John Turner
TORONTO - Some highlights from the life and career of former prime minister John Turner: June 7, 1929: John Napier Wyndham Turner is born in Richmond, England. 1932: Turner and his mother move to Brit...
Sep 19, 2020

11 new COVID-19 cases, 2 from outbreak in Saskatoon
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is reporting 11 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, five from Regina, two from Saskatoon, two from the South Central zone, and one each from the Central West and Central ...
Sep 19, 2020

Canada's Jeff (The Silencer) Smith beaten in 2nd round of World Series of Darts
SALZBURG, Austria - Canadian Jeff (The Silencer) Smith lost 6-3 Saturday to eighth-seeded James (The Machine) Wade in the second round of the 300,000-pound ($511,760) Bwin World Series of Darts Finals...
Sep 19, 2020

Canada's Shapovalov beats Dimitrov to advance to semis at Italian Open
ROME - Canada's Denis Shapovalov is through to the semifinals of the Italian Open. The No. 12 seed from Richmond Hill, Ont., edged No. 15 seed Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 in the quarterfinals Saturd...
Sep 19, 2020