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NBCHS making statement with strong start to badminton season
North Battleford Comprehensive High School (NBCHS) is off to a sizzling start to the badminton season.The Vikings, who feature both doubles, singles and mixed badminton teams, wasted no time hitting t...
Apr 01, 2022
U.S. authorities issue final order allowing P.E.I. table potatoes back over border
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has lifted the final barrier that was keeping table potatoes from Prince Edward Island out of the United States. A final federal order posted today clea...
Apr 01, 2022
Athletes can battle effects of maltreatment in sport well into adulthood
Brittany Rogers is an adult now and three years removed from her athletic career, yet the cutting words of her childhood gymnastics coaches still play like a broken record in her mind. You're fat. You...
Apr 01, 2022
Vice Mark Nichols ready for return to Team Gushue lineup at world curling playdowns
Forced into isolation due to COVID-19, Team Gushue vice Mark Nichols could only watch on television as his teammates won the Canadian men's curling championship last month. Now Nichols is set to retur...
Apr 01, 2022
Regina, Saskatoon city councils approve bid to bring 2023 world juniors to Sask.
Saskatchewan will try to get the world junior hockey championship back in the province.In separate meetings Friday morning, Regina and Saskatoon city councils unanimously approved motions to put toget...
Apr 01, 2022
Apology from Pope draws mixed local reaction
Hours after an apology from Pope Francis to former residential school students, and a promise to come to Canada to deliver a similar message, his words are still sinking in for at least two concerned ...
Apr 01, 2022
As Pope Francis prepares to come to Canada, a look at past papal visits
OTTAWA - Standing before a room of nearly 200 Indigenous delegates at the Vatican, Pope Francis apologized Friday for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools. The Pope said he felt sha...
Apr 01, 2022
Saskatchewan seeking more organ and tissue donations
The Government of Saskatchewan is urging people to sign up to be organ donors.April is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month, and people are being encouraged to sign up for the provincial...
Apr 01, 2022
Roughriders sign former NFL defensive back
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have added former NFL defensive back C.J. Reavis to their roster.The CFL team announced the transaction Friday.Reavis, 26, played four games for the Jacksonville Jaguars i...
Apr 01, 2022
LLRIB chief surprised by Pope's apology, calls it a strong statement
Lac La Ronge Indian Band chief Tammy Cook-Searson called Friday's apology from Pope Francis to an Indigenous delegation of residential school survivors in Rome a strong statement. "I was surprised to ...
Apr 01, 2022