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Shellbrook pool project receives massive wave of support from community
While it's still unclear whether Shellbrook is getting a new outdoor pool, or renovating the current facility, the project's steering committee has received a big boost from the community.During their...
Feb 07, 2023
Andreescu, Fernandez, Marino bounced in Abu Dhabi opening round
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Canadians were sent packing early at the Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open, with Bianca Andreescu, Leylah Fernandez and Rebecca Marino all losing their first-round matche...
Feb 07, 2023
Canadian Championship to kick off April 19 with games in Hamilton and Montreal
The 2023 Canadian Championship will kick off April 18 in Hamilton and Montreal with Forge FC hosting FC Laval and CF Montreal entertaining Vaughan SC in first-round matches. While the tournament draw ...
Feb 07, 2023
Drilling taking place in northern Sask. looking for uranium deposits
A Saskatchewan energy company will be drilling in northern Saskatchewan in an attempt to find uranium deposits.Abasca Resources Inc. has gotten permission from the provincial government to drill 14 ho...
Feb 07, 2023
B.C's pink sea urchins are on the move to shallower waters thanks to climate change
VANCOUVER - Pink sea urchins off the coast of Vancouver Island are expanding into shallower waters, in what researchers say is an indication of how rapidly climate change is affecting ocean life. Rese...
Feb 07, 2023
Trudeau lays out $196-billion, 10-year health-care deal to premiers
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will increase federal health-care transfers to the provinces by $196 billion over the next 10 years, though only about one-quarter of that is new, pre...
Feb 07, 2023
Coalition calls on Ottawa to invest $6B in Indigenous housing
A new coalition is calling on the federal government to invest $6 billion in its upcoming budget to develop an urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing strategy. The National Urban Rural and North...
Feb 07, 2023
Two of three accused in drug bust have charges stayed
Two of the three people charged in a drug trafficking operation by Prince Albert RCMP last fall have had their charges stayed. Grant Day, age 44, of Melfort was charged with one count of possessing co...
Feb 07, 2023
Riders expected to sign Trevor Harris, Jake Wieneke: Reports
The Saskatchewan Roughriders' 2023 offence could be taking shape - and some of the names will be familiar to Montreal fans.According to a report from TSN's Farhan Lalji, Montreal Alouettes quarterback...
Feb 07, 2023
COVID critic had illness but died of drug overdose, B.C. coroner says
VICTORIA - A report from British Columbia's coroner says a prominent anti-vaccine and COVID critic died in 2021 of a drug overdose, although he also tested positive for the illness post-mortem. The re...
Feb 07, 2023