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The third annual Downtown Trade Show goes this weekend in North Battleford
Look no further than downtown North Battleford for great holiday gift ideas this weekend.The Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre third annual Downtown Trade Show is taking place this Friday, December ...
Dec 04, 2019 The third annual Downtown Trade Show this Friday December 6. (Facebook/Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre)

Quebec chief justice criticized for declaring herself 'feminist' at Bill 21 hearing
MONTREAL - Quebec's chief justice declared herself a feminist in court last week and then suggested opposition to the province's secularism law resulted from "visual allergies" to seeing wom...
Dec 04, 2019

California Rep. Hunter to plead guilty to corruption charge
SAN DIEGO - California Rep. Duncan Hunter said he plans to plead guilty to misusing campaign funds and is prepared to go to jail, a stunning turn of events for the six-term Republican who had steadfas...
Dec 04, 2019

Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy on its way to First Nations
Chiefs from Indigenous communities in the region were returning home Wednesday from The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Special Chiefs Assembly held this week in Ottawa. Barry Matsuing Chalifoux, ...
Dec 04, 2019 ID 162561687 © Piyapong Thongcharoen | Dreamstime.com

Wilkinson says carbon price hikes won't be decided until 2022
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there will be no decision made about hiking the carbon price beyond $50 a tonne for at least another two years. The Ecofiscal Commission study rel...
Dec 04, 2019

Washington’s Chris Petersen resigns, Jimmy Lake to take over
SEATTLE - Chris Petersen has always worked according to his own schedule. During eight seasons as the head coach at Boise State he brought the Broncos into the elite of college football, never in a ru...
Dec 04, 2019

Thin limbed: North America short on Christmas trees
A local grower says there is a Christmas tree shortage in North America and the 2008 recession is to blame.According to Ray Gaudet, a former director for the National Christmas Tree Association, there...
Dec 04, 2019 (submitted photo/Lefebvre Christmas Tree Farm Facebook page)

Action plan on missing, murdered Indigenous women coming by June: Bennett
OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the federal government will release by June 2020 its plan to respond to the final report of the inquiry into missing an...
Dec 04, 2019

Scheer warns Liberals his Tories are watching as Parliament prepares to return
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says there will be no more free rides in the House of Commons for the Liberal government. Scheer says his Opposition intends to fight hard now that the days ...
Dec 04, 2019

Ontario not on track to achieving emissions reductions targets: auditor
TORONTO - Ontario is unlikely to meet its 2030 emissions target under its current climate change plan - and Premier Doug Ford's government knows it, the province's auditor gen...
Dec 04, 2019