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NBA champion Raptors earn the first-ever NBA Team of the Year Award
TORONTO - The NBA champion Toronto Raptors have received the league's first-ever NBA Team of the Year Award. The Raptors were recognized for their achievements across team business, including tic...
Jan 14, 2020

UK leader: Royal rift over Harry-Meghan plans can be settled
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday he believes the royal family can resolve a serious rift over the plans of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, who want to break free of their r...
Jan 14, 2020

Tom Hanks' family offered Greek passport too for fire help
ATHENS, Greece - Greece's government is extending its offer of citizenship to Tom Hanks to his wife and their two children, in recognition of the family's help in assisting victims of a deadly wildfir...
Jan 14, 2020

Elizabeth Banks to be honoured by Harvard's Hasty Pudding
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University's famed Hasty Pudding theatre troupe has named actor and director Elizabeth Banks as the group's 2020 Woman of the Year. The troupe's leaders made the announcemen...
Jan 14, 2020

Surge in iodide pill orders after false alarm at Ontario nuclear power plant
TORONTO - Ontarians have placed more than 32,000 orders for iodide pills in the two days following a false alarm about an incident at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Ontario Power Generation say...
Jan 14, 2020

Trump sets sights on Sanders on eve of Democratic debate in Des Moines
WASHINGTON - Bernie Sanders, the gesticulating, septuagenarian senator with the fixation on Canada's universal health-care system, seems to have caught the attention of Democrats i...
Jan 14, 2020

Melfort council doubles borrowing capacity ahead of waterline grant applications
Melfort council approved an increase in the city's external borrowing capacity to $17 million during their Jan. 13 council meeting.The new number is more than double the previous $8 million limit set ...
Jan 14, 2020 The City of Melfort is expanding its borrowing capacity to help address a massive water line replacement project (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff).
City Council allocates $500 donation to Hospital Foundation
The City of Meadow Lake has allocated funds to the Meadow Lake Hospital Foundation. In October of 2017, Travelodge announced the Saskatchewan's Strong Communities Program, where donations of $500 per ...
Jan 14, 2020

Erroneous nuclear alert issued during training exercise, Ont. government says
TORONTO - The unintended release of an Ontario-wide alert about an "incident" at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station on Sunday has sparked a provincial investigation ...
Jan 14, 2020

More shippers and shipping companies promise to avoid Arctic routes
Environmental groups are applauding international shippers and shipping companies that have voluntarily promised to stay away from controversial Arctic routes. "We were really excited to get this...
Jan 14, 2020