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Family remembers fiery spirit of Canada's oldest woman who died at 114
TORONTO - As Canada's oldest woman, Ellen "Dolly" Gibb's zest for life won her national attention. Once birthdays went into the triple digits, she would receive cards fro...
Jun 07, 2019
Alcohol-related emergency room visits decreasing in La Ronge: CAMP
Visits associated with alcohol to the emergency room at the La Ronge Health Centre are decreasing for people 16 years and older.The data was revealed in a Lac La Ronge Region Community Alcohol Managem...
Jun 07, 2019 Data from CAMP shows alcohol-related emergency rooms visits are decreasing. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Aging Haida totem comes down during ceremony outside Royal B.C. Museum
VICTORIA - Dancers circled an aging totem pole that tells the story of a murdered Haida woman before it was hooked to a crane and gently lowered to the ground on Wednesday. The replica Haida mortuary ...
Jun 07, 2019
Free traders no more? GOP warms up to Trump's use of tariffs
WASHINGTON - With President Donald Trump threatening to slap tariffs on goods from Mexico, his transformation of Republican Party trade policy is nearly complete. Republican lawmakers usually don't li...
Jun 07, 2019
Victoria council debates asking Ottawa to help fund Remembrance Day
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps says a move to seek federal funding for the city's annual Remembrance Day events may have backfired. She says reaction to a council committee's plan to approach the Defe...
Jun 07, 2019
P.A. family has house to call home
Another Prince Albert family are now owners of their own home.The P.A. branch of Habitat for Humanity officially cut the ribbon to mark the handover of their most recent project Friday afternoon.The r...
Jun 07, 2019 Yohannes Zerai, center, and family with dignitaries after the ribbon was cut. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Disciplinary probe of Quebec judge in hijab case on hold after bias alleged
MONTREAL - The disciplinary case against a Quebec judge who refused to allow a Muslim woman appear before her wearing a hijab has been put on hold again. Quebec court Judge Eliana ...
Jun 07, 2019
Ottawa's spring floods put last round of repairs to the test
OTTAWA - A new round of repairs is in store for pathways around Parliament Hill, after the second major flood in three years. Water levels on the Ottawa River remain a metre above normal and crews wor...
Jun 07, 2019
Judge: Spacey accuser's phone must be turned over to defence
NANTUCKET, Mass. - A Massachusetts judge says a phone used by a young man who says Kevin Spacey groped him at a bar must be turned over to the defence. The actor's lawyer told the judge at a hearing M...
Jun 07, 2019
'The Buffalo Hunt' seeks to show tribe in a new light
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - "The Buffalo Hunt," a new documentary on the homeland of the Oglala Lakota, attempts to shun clichs around the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota involving poverty and a...
Jun 07, 2019