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Bedard aims to join Gretzky, Crosby in playing for Canadian junior hockey team at 16
CALGARY - The half-dozen who played for the Canadian junior men's hockey team at age 16 is sprinkled with names like Gretzky, Crosby and McDavid. Connor Bedard of North Vancouver, B.C., wants to join ...
Dec 10, 2021

Iqaluit residents can drink city water again after 60-day health order
IQALUIT - People in Iqaluit can drink the city's tap water again after 60 days of living under a do-not-consume notice. The notice was lifted Friday by Nunavut's Health Department. Residents of the te...
Dec 10, 2021

16-year-old charged with attempted murder after teacher stabbed in Montreal classroom
MONTREAL - A 16-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after a teacher was stabbed in a Montreal high school classroom Thursday. The provincial prosecution service said the teenager, who ...
Dec 10, 2021

Like father like son. Ticats QB Dane Evans happy to learn footballs X's and O's
HAMILTON - The son of a football coach, Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Dane Evans got into the X's and O's himself last year - almost by accident. When the CFL cancelled its 2020 season due to the pa...
Dec 10, 2021

Murder case involving former Prince Albert RCMP officer faces delays
A scheduled preliminary hearing next week for a former Prince Albert RCMP officer charged with first degree murder has been postponed five months. The simple reason provided to paNOW by Prosecutor Bil...
Dec 10, 2021

'A dream come true': Battlefords local Wuttunee drafted by WHL's Oil Kings
Dec. 9 is a date Battlefords local, Treycen Wuttunee, will have starred on the calendar for some time as one to remember fondly. As a 15-year-old standout in the AAA ranks, with his hometown Battlefor...
Dec 10, 2021

Speedskater Laurent Dubreuil shatters Canadian record at World Cup stop in Calgary
CALGARY - Laurent Dubreuil didn't just break Jeremy Wotherspoon's Canadian record, he shattered it. On the opening day of the ISU World Cup speedskating event at Calgary's Olympic Oval, Dubreuil of Le...
Dec 10, 2021

Trojans building players on and off the ice as first half concludes
The Tisdale Trojans haven't had the first half they wanted, at least record-wise, as they currently sit in last place on their league standings.After playing exactly half of their regular season to th...
Dec 10, 2021

Canada to U.S. on EV tax credits: 'No choice but to forcefully respond' if passed
WASHINGTON - Canada is threatening a retaliatory barrage of punitive tariffs and to reverse a number of dairy-related trade concessions if the United States goes through with its controversial plan to...
Dec 10, 2021

Two arrested, firearms seized in Asquith
Saskatchewan RCMP charged two men in Asquith, SK with multiple firearms offences, following an investigation on Wednesday.Officers were searching a vehicle and residence in relation to an ongoing inve...
Dec 10, 2021