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Ellsworth hoping football journey continues at Mosaic Stadium
The Saskatchewan Roughriders take the field at Mosaic Stadium on Thursday to wrap up their CFL pre-season schedule against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.Saskatchewan is hoping for a better result with man...
Jun 06, 2019 Austin Ellsworth prepares for a drill during Saskatchewan Roughriders training camp on June 4, 2019. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Extradition hearing for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou set for early next year
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Supreme Court has accepted a plan by the defence team for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou that would see her extradition hearing begin Jan. 20, more than a year after she ...
Jun 06, 2019
Canadian veterans prepare to return to Juno Beach for 75th anniversary of D-Day
OTTAWA - Albert Roy was a fresh-faced 20-year-old from St. Jean Baptiste, Man., when Canadian, American and British troops stormed ashore on D-Day to begin the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi c...
Jun 06, 2019
New charges laid against father in death of 7-year-old Quebec girl
GRANBY, Que. - New charges have been laid against the father of a seven-year-old Granby girl who died in late April after being found badly injured in the family home east of Montreal. The 3...
Jun 06, 2019
Going back to the 50s while raising funds for Melfort historic post office
It'll be a trip back to the 1950s next Friday in Melfort.The Back to the 50s sock hop cabaret will take place in the Melfort curling rink following the 30th annual Melfort Show and Shine.Director of D...
Jun 06, 2019 Melfort Historic Post Office building. (file photo/northeastNOW Staff)
Agency watchdog slams conditions at ICE detention facilities
WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog says rotting food, mouldy and dilapidated bathrooms and agency practices at immigration detention facilities may violate detainees' ri...
Jun 06, 2019
UNB prof under fire for immigration views to retire, school says
FREDERICTON - A University of New Brunswick professor denounced by colleagues for promoting what they say are racist arguments about immigration has agreed to retire. The school announced Tuesday that...
Jun 06, 2019
Feds have failed to explain 'inaction' in Grassy Narrows: UN rapporteur
OTTAWA - A United Nations human-rights expert says the case of a northern Ontario First Nation plagued by mercury contamination is "emblematic" of an overall pattern of inaction in the face of grave r...
Jun 06, 2019
Police say house fire 'suspicious'
The Prince Albert Police Service has confirmed they are treating a house fire in the city's east flat area as suspicious, and are investigating with the assistance from the Prince Albert Fire Departme...
Jun 06, 2019 Neighbours have told paNOW the heard what sounded like an explosion come from the home early Monday morning. (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)
Melfort kicks off Recreation and Parks month
Nearly hundreds of children, parents, and spectators soaked up the sun at the Spruce Haven Recreation Area June 5, as the City of Melfort kicked off its Recreation and Parks month.The open house was h...
Jun 06, 2019 Kids and adults lined up to perform tricks at the Melfort Skatepark during the city's Recreation and Parks month open house at the Spruce Haven Recreation Area. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)