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NHLers weigh in on QMJHL fighting debate: 'The game's changing'
A veteran of nearly 130 career fights, Kyle Clifford can see a day when dropping the gloves in the NHL has serious repercussions beyond a five-minute penalty. Just not any time soon. "It'd be a w...
Feb 21, 2020
Local SPCA rescue healing well after surgery
A seven-month-old retriever dog taken into the Prince Albert SPCA's care two months ago is now recovering after a leg amputation last week. Nova was found in December out in the cold dragging her fron...
Feb 21, 2020 Nova. (Prince Albert SPCA/ Facebook)
Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville claims Tournament of Hearts playoff berth
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville secured the fourth and final playoff spot at the Canadian women's curling championship Friday. McCarville defeated Prince Edward Island 6-5 ...
Feb 21, 2020
Armani rails against baring trends by fellow designers
MILAN - How much to show and how much not to show, that is the fashion question this season. It may be reductive to say that runway shows are about how women dress. But the conversation has sharpened ...
Feb 21, 2020
Trudeau says time for blockades to end, Indigenous leaders to work with government
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says after two weeks, barricades on rail lines and other major transportation routes have to come down.He said injunctions to clear tracks must be obeyed and the...
Feb 21, 2020 Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs receive a welcome at the Mohawk Community Centre near Belleville, Ont., on Feb. 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Parent pleads guilty in college admissions scheme
BOSTON - A woman charged in the college admissions scandal pleaded guilty Friday to paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California, Los Angeles, as a fake soccer recruit. Xiaoning Su...
Feb 21, 2020
Bloomberg says 3 women can be released from NDAs
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said Friday that he's willing to release at least three women from nondisclosure agreements that prevented them from speaking publicly abo...
Feb 21, 2020
New presidential elections key to solving Venezuelan crisis: Colombian envoy
OTTAWA - Fleeing Venezuelans - all 1.4 million of them - will always be welcome in his country, says Colombia's ambassador to Canada, but his real hope is that they are able to one day retur...
Feb 21, 2020
Police search for missing woman
Police are appealing to the public in their search for a missing woman.Morin, 40, was last seen wearing black clothes with grey and green running shoes. She is 5-4 with brown eyes. Her hair is brown, ...
Feb 21, 2020 Missing person Mary Morin. (submitted photo/PAPS)
Two nominees for Carrot River’s mayoral by-election in March
Two residents have thrown their hats in the race to become Carrot River's mayor.Acting Mayor Ila Boehm and Brock Irvine, a park maintenance worker at Pasquia Regional Park, will be the town's two nomi...
Feb 21, 2020 (File photo/northeastNOW Staff).