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Mother of slain Hamilton teen says 'everyone' failed her son
HAMILTON - A mother who witnessed her son being stabbed to death outside his high school broke her silence on Wednesday, blaming the system for failing to protect the 14-year-old f...
Oct 09, 2019
10-spot: Cards oust Braves from NLDS with record 1st inning
ATLANTA - The St. Louis Cardinals scored 10 runs for the biggest opening inning in post-season history and dealt the Atlanta Braves another playoff heartbreak with a 13-1 rout in decisive Game 5 of th...
Oct 09, 2019
Girl recalls stabbing that injured her and killed her friend at B.C. high school
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A teenage girl wrote the words "this is amazing grace" on a piece of paper moments before she and her friend were attacked by a man with a knife inside a British Columbia high ...
Oct 09, 2019
Canada loses forward Mike Sheppard to concussion at Rugby World Cup in Japan
KOBE, Japan - Canada has lost a fourth player to injury at the Rugby World Cup. Rugby Canada says Mike Sheppard, a replacement forward who came on in the 74th minute of Canada's 66-7 loss to South Afr...
Oct 09, 2019
Riders’ Micah Teitz excited to play hometown Stamps
Micah Teitz has a lot of memories of McMahon Stadium in Calgary.The second-year Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker grew up in Calgary and also played his university football there as a member of the ...
Oct 09, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Micah Teitz (43). (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Private bus operator to quit after getting ticket from city
It looks like Prince Albert is losing its private bus service to Saskatoon.Rider Express Transportation says they'll pull out after Friday's run, and it appears the move was prompted by a ticket they ...
Oct 09, 2019 (File photo/Tyler Marr paNOW Staff)
British Columbia premier defends chief of staff over handling of allegations
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan defended how his chief of staff handled allegations made against the former clerk of the B.C. legislature when he first learned of them in July 2018 as the Liberals...
Oct 09, 2019
P.A. candidates talk to young voters
Prince Albert federal candidates had the chance to make their case to post-secondary students at a forum hosted at Saskatchewan Polytechnic on Wednesday. Despite only around a dozen people in the audi...
Oct 09, 2019 From left: Estelle Hjertaas (Lib), Sarah Kraynick (Green), Kelly Day (PPC), and Harmony Johnson-Harder (NDP). (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW staff)
New book explores Indigenous justice in Canada
A new book by Harold Johnson called Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada explores the idea of replacing deterrence with redemption in the legal system.Johnson held a book la...
Oct 09, 2019 Harold Johnson's new book can be purchased online. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Englefeld swimmer named Special Olympics Canada’s athlete of the year
Tia Zimmerman's path to winning national awards and representing Canada on an international stage caught her and her family by surprise.The 18-year-old swimmer from Englefeld who's a part of Humboldt ...
Oct 09, 2019 Tia Zimmerman with her gold and bronze medals from the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Abu Dhabi. (Special Olympics Saskatchewan/Facebook)