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Ex-PQ leader Andre Boisclair pleads not guilty to two sexual assault charges
MONTREAL - Former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair has pleaded not guilty on two counts of sexual assault. The ex-politician was not in court today but was represented by his lawyer. Boiscl...
Jul 14, 2020
City of Melfort projects near $70,000 deficit following COVID-19 impacts
The City of Melfort's second quarter financial report - the first full quarter during the COVID-19 pandemic - showed a current operating surplus, but a projected deficit by year's end.During Melfort's...
Jul 14, 2020
Sources say Canada, U.S. likely to extend mutual travel ban into late August
WASHINGTON - Sources say Canada and the United States are likely to agree to extend their mutual ban on non-essential travel between the two countries for another 30 days. The Canada-U.S. border has b...
Jul 14, 2020
Draisaitl, MacKinnon and Panarin named Ted Lindsay Award finalists
TORONTO - Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl, Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon and New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin are the finalists for the 2019-20 Ted Lindsay Award. The award...
Jul 14, 2020
Senators call for changes to COVID-19 aid and more transparency on spending
OTTAWA - The Senate's finance committee says the Trudeau Liberals need to tell people very soon what they will do for those who max out a key federal COVID-19 benefit in the fall without jobs&nbs...
Jul 14, 2020
Column: What's in a name? Stubborn Snyder about to find out
Try to think of a more deserving guy in all of sports than Dan Snyder to get his name-change plans caught in a vise. Go ahead, we'll wait. In the meantime, let's all savour this quote from the owner o...
Jul 14, 2020
Council votes down motion to consider cuts to police budget
Prince Albert city council has flatly rejected a request from a citizen's group that wanted to see at least $750,000 cut from the annual police budget. The City committed $17.2 million to policing in ...
Jul 14, 2020
North Stars boast bright future on back end
The Battlefords North Stars allowed fewer goals-against last season than any other team in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL); and while the team's blue line is likely to look a bit differen...
Jul 14, 2020
US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The federal government on Tuesday carried out its first execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot...
Jul 14, 2020
Search for father of girls found dead in Quebec enters fifth day
ST-APOLLINAIRE, Que. - The search continues today for the father of two girls whose bodies were found Saturday in a small town southwest of Quebec City. The bodies of Norah and Romy Carpentier, aged 1...
Jul 14, 2020