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P.A. PCP candidate unfazed by election challenge
The Progressive Conservative Party (PCP) candidate for Prince Albert Carlton says protecting Saskatchewan jobs is a key platform plank and says she's not daunted by the challenge of helping to re-esta...
Oct 16, 2020
Awash in red ink: US posts record $3.1T 2020 budget deficit
WASHINGTON - The federal budget deficit hit an all-time high of $3.1 trillion in the 2020 budget year, more than double the previous record, as the coronavirus pandemic shrank revenues and sent spendi...
Oct 16, 2020
Ottawa Senators sign forward Rudolfs Balcers to a one-year, two-way contract
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Rudolfs Balcers to a one-year, two-way contract. The deal is worth US$735,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the American Hockey League. The 23-year-o...
Oct 16, 2020
Successful, unusual golf season coming to an end
Recent frosty weather has brought an end to golf season in Prince Albert, and local courses are calling it a successful year.Cooke Municipal Golf Course officially closed earlier this week, putting a ...
Oct 16, 2020
'A tragedy for Quebec': Pierre Laporte's death remembered 50 years later
MONTREAL - At age 91, Marc Lalonde still remembers the shock he felt on Oct. 17, 1970 when Pierre Laporte's body was discovered in the trunk of a car at an airport south of Montreal, a week after he h...
Oct 16, 2020
Bentley running for mayor of Humboldt for the second time
A Humboldt resident of 25 years will take another crack at being elected as mayor of the city.Harley Bentley ran in the 2016 municipal election and had a lot of great support and believes he has that ...
Oct 16, 2020
Possible COVID-19 exposures in Sask. communities
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting residents of possible COVID-19 exposures in the province.According to a media release, the SHA is instructing those who were at the locations on the...
Oct 16, 2020
UK says EU trade talks 'over' but bloc sees room for a deal
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday that the U.K. must prepare for a no-deal break with the European Union unless there is a "fundamental" change of position from the bloc, as th...
Oct 16, 2020
UK's Johnson threatens to impose restrictions on Manchester
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatened to force the Greater Manchester region into the most severe level of COVID-19 restrictions after local officials refused to accept the government's fin...
Oct 16, 2020
New quantum centre in Ontario to probe nature's deepest and weirdest secrets
WATERLOO, Ont. - Canadian research will probe some of the deepest and strangest properties of the world within the atom in a new centre for the study of quantum matter. Quantum matter is the basic sci...
Oct 16, 2020