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Montreal caleche drivers seek injunction to try to save their industry
MONTREAL - A group of Montreal carriage-horse owners and drivers are going to court in a last-ditch effort to save their industry weeks before a city-imposed ban is set to take effect. The group ...
Dec 17, 2019
Former P.A. correctional officer shares stories of life behind the walls of the 'big brick monster' in new book
Prince Albert's Pat Bliss can fondly the recall the day he walked through the doors of the "big brick monster" as he calls it, to start a job that would change his life.Bliss worked at the Saskatchewa...
Dec 17, 2019 Pat Bliss with his new book 'Behind the Razor's Ribbon - A Correctional Officer's Perspective'. (Nigel Mawxell/ paNOW Staff)
Province approves sale of cannabis edibles, extracts and topical products
The province has approved cannabis edibles, extracts and topical products to become available to the public. Brent Michaud, assistant manager with Tweed in Meadow Lake says the demand for edibles has ...
Dec 17, 2019 Tweed Cannabis Dispensary in Meadow Lake. (Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)
Youngest ever Liverpool team taken to school in League Cup
BIRMINGHAM, England - The youngest ever Liverpool team to play a competitive game was taken to school in the English League Cup quarterfinals on Tuesday. With its best players in Qatar for the Club Wo...
Dec 17, 2019
Man starts GoFundMe after losing belongings in fire
A local man is trying to get back on his feet after losing everything he owned to a fire along Big Stone Road. The incident occurred Dec. 12 around 2:30 p.m. and it was reportedly caused by the tenant...
Dec 17, 2019 The fire department continues to investigate the blaze. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Nothing wrong with using voters list to mail Jagmeet Singh's Christmas cards
OTTAWA - Canada's election watchdog says the NDP did nothing wrong when it used the national voters list to send Christmas cards from Jagmeet Singh. Still, a spokesman for the NDP leader is apolo...
Dec 17, 2019
People living in Saskatchewan will get smaller carbon tax rebates in 2020
As the Saskatchewan government vows to continue fighting the carbon tax, the federal government has decreased carbon tax rebates to the province and two others who have not adopted carbon pricing mode...
Dec 17, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)
Canada's show jumping team dropped from Tokyo 2020 for anti-doping violation
Canada's show jumping team has been dropped from next summer's Tokyo Olympics because of an anti-doping violation at the Pan American Games. Nicole Walker of Aurora, Ont., is appealing her disqua...
Dec 17, 2019
RCMP secrets case 'dragging on,' disappointed defence lawyer says
OTTAWA - The lawyer for an RCMP intelligence official accused of violating secrecy laws expressed concern in court today about the pace of the legal proceedings. Lawyer Ian Carter, who represents the ...
Dec 17, 2019
Canada argues in court: National measures needed to address climate crisis
EDMONTON - Lawyers for the federal government are defending Canada's carbon tax by saying the climate crisis requires national measures. The law that brought in the federal levy is being cha...
Dec 17, 2019