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North Stars host Bruins in search of seventh straight
The Battlefords North Stars return to action Wednesday night on home ice, as the team welcomes the Estevan Bruins to town at the Access Communications Centre. The North Stars enter play first in the N...
Jan 17, 2024

Hawks head to Flin Flon in rescheduled matchup
The Nipawin Hawks will travel to Flin Flon Wednesday for a showdown with the Bombers, in a game that was originally scheduled for Jan. 12.The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) clubs had the gam...
Jan 17, 2024

Veteran tackle Stanley Bryant remains with Winnipeg Blue Bombers
He's entering his 14th CFL season and will be 38 years old when training camp begins but Stanley Bryant isn't ready to retire just yet. The hulking six-foot-five, 319-pound offensive tackle will retur...
Jan 17, 2024

US woman gets 26 years in prison for helping kill her mother in Bali and stuffing body in a suitcase
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced an American woman to 26 years in prison for helping to kill her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation in Bali nearly...
Jan 17, 2024

Immigration department says 144 Gazans on track to come to Canada, pending biometrics
Ottawa has processed visa applications for 144 people in the Gaza Strip, putting them on track to be reunited with extended family members in Canada - as long as they can make it across the border for...
Jan 17, 2024

Housing minister warns against resistance to ending exclusionary zoning
TORONTO - Canada's Housing Minister is warning that municipalities without a ban on exclusionary zoning will not succeed with applications for federal housing accelerator funding. Speaking Wednesday a...
Jan 17, 2024

South Korea's Eunjung Kim tops Ottawa's Rachel Homan at Canadian Open
RED DEER, Alta. - South Korea's Eunjung Kim stole a single point in the eighth end for a 6-5 victory over Ottawa's Rachel Homan on Wednesday at the Co-op Canadian Open. The result left both teams with...
Jan 17, 2024

Gap in schedule, fear of calling police: inquest hears
Questions continue to arise during the third day of the coroner's inquest into Myles Sanderson's crime spree that ended with the murders of 11 James Smith Cree Nation members over one year ago. The go...
Jan 17, 2024

Amid criticism, Canada asks Israel how it can help respond to Hamas sexual violence
OTTAWA - A multipartisan group of influential women is calling on Canada to help Israel heal from sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas, though it remains unclear what people in that country actually w...
Jan 17, 2024

Quebec man charged with killing three men with truck ordered to stand trial
AMQUI, Que. - A Quebec man accused of killing three people with his truck last March in a town about 350 kilometres northeast of Quebec City has been ordered to stand trial. Steeve Gagnon's preliminar...
Jan 17, 2024