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Big changes coming to Jam Street, but the music will not stop
After eight years of running Jam Street Music, Prince Albert's Lucy James is making some big changes in her own personal life, but not before making sure the project she started will live on and grow....
Jul 07, 2020
Bears trying to live with people, but it still isn't enough: study
EDMONTON - Grizzly bears are doing their best to get along with people, but it still isn't enough. Newly published research assessing more than 40 years of data concludes that without large wilde...
Jul 07, 2020
Charities battered by COVID-19 say federal support desperately needed
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is facing growing calls to provide direct support to Canada's charity and non-profit sector as some of the country's best-known and largest organizations say th...
Jul 07, 2020
Wizards' Beal not playing rest of NBA season due to injury
WASHINGTON - Wizards leading scorer Bradley Beal won't take part in the restart of the NBA season because of a right rotator cuff injury. The team announced Beal's status Tuesday before travelling to ...
Jul 07, 2020
City of Humboldt applies for help from Provincial Disaster Assistance Program
Help might be on the way very soon for the City of Humboldt and it's residents after two major storms tore through the area over the past month, one of which caused a State of Emergency.Council voted ...
Jul 07, 2020
Hiring soared in May as mass layoffs eased
WASHINGTON - The job market took a big step toward healing in May, though plenty of damage remains, as a record level of hiring followed record layoffs in March and April. The Labor Department reporte...
Jul 07, 2020
Canadian cyclist Michael Woods recovered from nasty crash, ready to race
A broken femur and global pandemic seem like a nasty double whammy. But after going down in a high-speed crash March 12 in the Paris-Nice race, Canadian Michael Woods has used cycling's COVID-19 hiatu...
Jul 07, 2020
Canada's McPeak might be 'someone's Robin Roberts' as female Black broadcaster
When Meghan McPeak considers where she is in her broadcasting career, against the backdrop of racial unrest and the bleak employment numbers of Black people in her business, she says she feels li...
Jul 07, 2020
Questions continue around back-to-school plans
Last month, the provincial government released its guidelines for reopening Saskatchewan schools in the fall, but some teachers and parents still have their hands raised with questions.Emails 980 CJME...
Jul 07, 2020
Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the virus' severity. Bolsonaro confirmed the test results while wearing a mask a...
Jul 07, 2020