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Alouettes fullback Spencer Moore not very hopeful for 2020 CFL season
Montreal Alouettes fullback Spencer Moore isn't hopeful the CFL will have a 2020 season. League action was originally scheduled to begin Thursday night but remains suspended d...
Jun 12, 2020
USports cancellation puts graduating players like P.A.'s Cowles in tough position
With USports pulling the plug on their fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that puts all the graduating players in jeopardy.Next season would have been Kalli Cowles' fifth and final year of elig...
Jun 12, 2020
'If you run, we will shoot you': Judge delivers sentencing in P.A. confinement case
A woman who was lured to a house by a friend she trusted, was later attacked and robbed by two men, according to evidence heard at Prince Albert Provincial Court on Friday.Layton McCallum , 25, and Da...
Jun 12, 2020
Dandelion bouquet memorial created to honour two children who died at house fire
A North Battleford pastor is encouraging the community to honour the memory of two young children, who passed away tragically at a house fire last week, by creating a dandelion bouquet memorial to cel...
Jun 12, 2020
'Born leader:' Contradiction is Alberta Chief Allan Adam's strength
EDMONTON - It was supposed to be a triumph. South African anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu was joining the chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in his struggle against environmenta...
Jun 12, 2020
Winnipeg police defend kicking suspect during arrest, release video
Winnipeg police are defending their actions and reaching out to Indigenous leaders after a video surfaced showing officers kneeing and kicking a man during an arrest. A blurry, 74-second video po...
Jun 12, 2020
Three new cases of COVID-19 in Sask., those who attended funeral in Clearwater River Dene Nation urged to self-isolate
There are three more cases of COVID-19 in this province and more expected after two people tested positive for the virus having attended a funeral and wake at the Clearwater River Dene Nation. The two...
Jun 12, 2020
A list of police encounters being questioned and investigated in Canada
The death last month of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis who was killed when an officer kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes, has sparked demonstrations against police brutality and rac...
Jun 12, 2020
Witness said killer in N.S. mass shooting 'recently' acquired gun from estate
HALIFAX - A portion of a witness statement released Friday says the gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia had "recently" acquired one of his firearms in Canada from the estate of a...
Jun 12, 2020
Canadian expert says he is confident COVID-19 vaccine is months, not years away
OTTAWA - One of Canada's preeminent infectious disease experts says he is confident a vaccine for COVID-19 will be ready in months, not years. Dr. Gary Kobinger, director of the Research Cen...
Jun 12, 2020