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Pacific season's 1st hurricane makes landfall in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Agatha, the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific, swept ashore on a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns in southern Mexico on Monday...
May 30, 2022
All in the family: Team Fernandez no longer just a party of two
PARIS - Can Canadian Leylah Fernandez win Roland Garros? "I hope so! But that victory is far away. I just want to appreciate this win, and concentrate on my next match," the 19-year-old from Montreal ...
May 30, 2022
Second degree murder charge laid in La Loche
La Loche RCMP have arrested a local woman and charged her with second degree murder. According to an RCMP media release, on May 28 at approximately 1:10 a.m., police received a report of an injured in...
May 30, 2022
Yukon supervised drug consumption site upgraded to allow indoor smoking
WHITEHORSE - Those who use illicit drugs may now smoke their substances at the supervised drug consumption site in Whitehorse, becoming one of the first facilities in Canada to allow inhalation indoor...
May 30, 2022
Ottawa's main Canada Day celebrations to be held at LeBreton Flats Park
OTTAWA - Large-scale Canada Day celebrations will return to the national capital July 1, with most of the action taking place in a park just west of Parliament Hill. Daytime and evening shows are sche...
May 30, 2022
Steve CashSteve Cash headlines list of inductees to Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
TORONTO - Steve Cash, a two-time NBA MVP and voted one of the league's 75 greatest players of all time, is among a group of seven who will be inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame. Nash w...
May 30, 2022
Study struggles to explain why Quebec has high COVID death toll but low excess death
MONTREAL - Researchers are having a hard time explaining why Quebec had Canada's highest official COVID-19 death toll despite a relatively low number of excess deaths between March 2020 and October 20...
May 30, 2022
Cops, Pops and Pizza event at Boston Pizza Serves Up Support
Our finest will be serving up dinner at 6 Boston Pizzas to benefit Special Olympics Saskatchewan on Tuesday, May 31st. Cops, Pops and Pizza is a Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) fundraising event comb...
May 30, 2022
MLA attends group home ceremony in La Ronge, visits NSN day program
Although Ty's House in La Ronge has been accepting residents since December 2020, the lifting of COVID restrictions earlier this year finally allowed for a grand opening ceremony to go aheadThe event ...
May 30, 2022
Mary Ng under ethics probe over contract to firm co-founded by Liberal strategist
OTTAWA - The federal ethics commissioner has opened an investigation into the conduct of International Trade Minister Mary Ng over a contract given to a company co-founded by a Liberal strategist. Con...
May 30, 2022