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'She was always laughing': Friend remembers Canadian killed in Mexico robbery
The friend of a Canadian killed in Mexico says she spoke to Gabriele Schart on the phone just moments before the woman was shot in a gas station robbery. Raquel Shulman says Schart was making the long...
Mar 21, 2024

U11 Battlefords Sharks win SFHL championship
The U11 Battlefords Sharks are coming off a season for the ages, proving themselves at the top of the food chain in the Sask Female Hockey League (SFHL).After clinching first place in the league stand...
Mar 21, 2024

Canadian Auger-Aliassime advances to second round of men's singles at Miami Open.
MIAMI - Canadian Flix Auger-Aliassime is through to the second round of men's singles at the Miami Open. Auger-Aliassime, of Montreal, dispatched Australian qualifier Adam Walton 7-5, 6-4 in a first-r...
Mar 21, 2024

Canadian forward Liam Millar rejuvenated by loan move back to England with Preston
On loan from Switzerland's FC Basel to England's Preston North End, Canadian forward Liam Millar is back on familiar turf. Preston is a 50-kilometre drive from Liverpool, where a teenage Millar starte...
Mar 21, 2024

Northwest Sask. leaders react to provincial budget
The 2024-25 Saskatchewan budget has been tabled and the Battlefords and Meadow Lake communities are reacting to the Classrooms, Care and Communities. According to NDP Battlefords candidate Tom Kroczyn...
Mar 21, 2024

Halt defence counter-intelligence searches of workplace computers, spy watchdog urges
OTTAWA - The national spy watchdog is calling on the military's counter-intelligence unit to suspend investigative searches of a workplace computer system over concerns about employee privacy. A Natio...
Mar 21, 2024

'This was a close call': Tisdale man finally leaves gangs, gunfire behind in Haiti
A harrowing ordeal is over for a Tisdale man who was trapped in Haiti.Richard Phillips was in Haiti for work when a gang uprising led to mass chaos and violence across the country, leading to the clos...
Mar 21, 2024

Future Prince Albert candidates say provincial budget underwhelming
Underwhelmed and disappointed are the words being used by two future Prince Albert NDP candidates to describe the provincial budget. Both Nicole Rancourt and Carolyn Brost Strom said the government sh...
Mar 21, 2024

Algeria sets election for September, when military-backed president will vie for 2nd term
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Algeria will hold its next presidential election on Sept. 7, giving first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune more than five months to campaign for a second term to lead the oil...
Mar 21, 2024

Highlights of Newfoundland and Labrador's 2024-25 budget
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Siobhan Coady tabled the province's 2024-25 budget Thursday. Here are some highlights: - Projected GDP is $33.2 billion, which is a five p...
Mar 21, 2024