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Family of man tased by police looking for justice
Boden Umpherville is still laying in a Saskatoon hospital bed with an uncertain prognosis, weeks after being tased multiple times by Prince Albert Police in an arrest caught on video by a witness. His...
Apr 21, 2023
Strike leaves military heating, wastewater plants without sufficient staff
OTTAWA - The union representing Defence Department employees says the government dropped the ball by not declaring staff at heating and wastewater plants on several military bases as essential workers...
Apr 21, 2023
Canadian Premier League teams wrap up busy first week facing familiar foes
It's more of the same in the Canadian Premier League this weekend as York United FC hosts Vancouver FC and Pacific FC entertains Cavalry FC. The two games - in Toronto on Saturday and Langford, B.C., ...
Apr 21, 2023
Veterans warned of longer wait times due to federal public service strike
OTTAWA - Ill and injured veterans are being warned they could face longer-than-expected wait times in accessing certain benefits and services due to the federal public service strike. Veterans Affairs...
Apr 21, 2023
Bergeron doesn't travel with Bruins for games in Florida
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Boston captain Patrice Bergeron did not accompany the Bruins on their trip to Florida for Games 3 and 4 of an Eastern Conference first-round series with the Panthers. He missed Ga...
Apr 21, 2023
Discredited Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond voluntarily returns another honorary degree
FREDERICTON - Former judge and law professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, whose claims of Indigenous ancestry have been discredited, has returned another honorary degree. A statement from Kim Fenwick, th...
Apr 21, 2023
Vancouver officer testifies about efforts to resuscitate Myles Gray after beating
BURNABY, B.C. - A Vancouver police officer told a coroner's inquest that "time was standing still" as they waited for advanced life support paramedics to arrive and help revive 33-year-old Myles Gray ...
Apr 21, 2023
Two people injured at Dene High School in La Loche, Sask., one in custody
LA LOCHE, Sask. - Two people have been injured at Dene High School in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche. The Northern Lights School Division says the two individuals are being treated an...
Apr 21, 2023
Unknown incident at La Loche high school leaves two people injured
The Dene High School in La Loche was closed Friday after an incident at the school left two people injured.According to a statement from the Northern Lights School Division issued Thursday, two people...
Apr 21, 2023
Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly once a week so far this year. The carnage has taken 88 lives in 17 mass killings ...
Apr 21, 2023