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Tories have 'successfully' scapegoated carbon price in affordability crisis: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at "scapegoating" the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive. Trudeau says in a year-end intervi...
Dec 11, 2023

Menstruation Equity Fund pilot in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake
Women in need of menstruation support will find relief in the Battlefords.The Battlefords District Food and Resource Centre is among a number of registered food banks in the province and the country t...
Dec 11, 2023

AI systems 'can be weaponized,' warns top U.S. cyber official in promoting safeguards
OTTAWA - Top cybersecurity officials are urging technology firms to bake safeguards into the futuristic artificial intelligence systems they're cooking up, to prevent them from being sabotaged or misu...
Dec 11, 2023

Tisdale pharmacist, councillor is Sask. Party nominee for Carrot River Valley
After Fred Bradshow announced he would not run in next year's provincial election, the Saskatchewan Party has chosen a candidate to replace him. Terri Bromm, a long-time pharmacist who works in Tisdal...
Dec 11, 2023

Gilgeous-Alexander wins Northern Star award as Canada's top athlete
TORONTO - Basketball star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the Northern Star Award as Canada's athlete of the year in 2023. He beat out Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid, RBC Canadian Open champ...
Dec 11, 2023

Federal sports minister Carla Qualtrough announces safe sport commission
OTTAWA - Canada's sports minister has announced a national commission to address safe-sport issues, but stopped short of calling a national inquiry. Carla Qualtrough unveiled a suite of measures, incl...
Dec 11, 2023

Blasting north of La Ronge expected during next two weeks
Blasting originally scheduled by Potzus Paving Ltd. in their quarry for on or around Dec. 15 related to the Highway 102 $28 million upgrade project has changed.That's according to an email from the Sa...
Dec 11, 2023

Montreal Lake Walleye Derby With Increased 2nd Place Prize
Montreal Lake's 16th Annual Walleye Derby is Saturday, March 23 at Montreal Lake, SK.This year the second place prize is 25,000.See the poster for details.
Dec 11, 2023

Man imprisoned as teen for flower shop killing is released after judge throws out his conviction
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A 35-year-old man who was sent to prison for the 2004 killing of a man in a Minneapolis flower shop was released Monday after a judge ruled the eyewitness evidence on which his conv...
Dec 11, 2023

Seniors over 87 can apply to join federal dental plan starting next week
The federal government hopes to avoid gumming up the works of its new dental-insurance plan by gradually phasing in enrolment over the course of the next year, Health Minister Mark Holland said Monday...
Dec 11, 2023