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Delays to Canada's deliveries of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses keep getting worse
OTTAWA - The delivery slowdown of COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer-BioNTech is going to be far worse than the companies first warned Canada last week. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, overseeing the vaccine r...
Jan 21, 2021

US government approves routes for Wyoming CO2 pipelines
CASPER, Wyo. - The U.S. government has approved routes for a system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming in what could be by far the largest such network in North America, if it ...
Jan 21, 2021

Biden halts oil and gas leases on US land, water for 60 days
BILLINGS, Mont. - The Biden administration announced Thursday the suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as part a broad review of programs at...
Jan 21, 2021

Congress poised for quick action on Biden's Pentagon nominee
WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House easily passed legislation required to confirm retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden's secretary of defence, brushing aside concerns that his ret...
Jan 21, 2021

Judge: NY lawsuit seeking NRA's dissolution can go forward
NEW YORK - A New York judge on Thursday denied the National Rifle Association's bid to throw out a state lawsuit that seeks to put the powerful gun advocacy group out of business. Judge Joel Cohen's r...
Jan 21, 2021

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Gov. Gen. Julie Payette resigns
OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Julie Payette is resigning. The news comes as the results of an investigation into allegations of a toxic workplace environment at Rideau Hall are expected to be released. The Privy...
Jan 21, 2021

Local reaction to White House changes mixed
While many people in North America celebrated the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday, the reaction from political and business figures in Saskatchewan was quite restrained.This stems f...
Jan 21, 2021

NESD calls by-election for Star City, Naicam subdivision
Saskatchewan's municipal and school board elections on Nov. 9, 2020 didn't resolve everything for the North East School Division's (NESD) representatives.Only seven of the eight school trustee spots w...
Jan 21, 2021

NWHL expansion Toronto Six head to Lake Placid women's hockey bubble
Digit Murphy has delivered the famous Herb Brooks speech to the Toronto Six. The NWHL expansion team's head coach invoked the words of the late Miracle on Ice coach in a social-media video. But if the...
Jan 21, 2021

Province reports 2,548 vaccines administered, 227 new cases of COVID-19, 13 deaths
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is reporting 2,548 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were given yesterday bringing the provincial total in the province to 29,781 vaccines administered.Saskatchewan now h...
Jan 21, 2021