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Ontario Hockey League cancels 2020-21 season as COVID-19 cases surge in province
TORONTO - The Ontario Hockey League has cancelled its 2020-21 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision on Tuesday means the OHL will be the only one of Canada's three major junior hockey ...
Apr 20, 2021

Town sees overall increase in calls for service in latest RCMP report
The Town of Battleford has seen an overall 21 per cent increase in calls for service from January to March in 2021, compared to the same time last year, based on the latest RCMP report.The town receiv...
Apr 20, 2021

Dionne says promised P.A. forestry manufacturing facility still waiting for provincial approval
Six months after he announced a massive forestry manufacturing facility was "ready to build" in Prince Albert, Mayor Greg Dionne says the project is still waiting for provincial approval. "The City of...
Apr 20, 2021

Hoback reacts to 'wow' federal budget spending
Prince Albert MP, Conservative Randy Hoback, is happy to see a federal election appears unlikely in response to the Liberal budget handed down Monday.As he and others try to digest the enormous 739-pa...
Apr 20, 2021

Oscar predictions: Can anything beat 'Nomadland'?
Ahead of Sunday's 93rd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr share their predictions for a ceremony that is forging on in the midst of the pandemic. BEST PICTURE Th...
Apr 20, 2021

Rapper Black Rob, known for hit ‘Whoa!,' dead at 52
NEW YORK - Rapper Black Rob, known for his hit "Whoa!" and key contributions to Diddy's dominant Bad Boy Records in the 1990s and early 2000s, has died. He was 52. Black Rob died Saturday in Atlanta, ...
Apr 20, 2021

Amy Coney Barrett has book deal with conservative imprint
NEW YORK - Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has a book deal with a Penguin Random House imprint, The Associated Press has learned. Adrian Zackheim, who heads the conservative Sentinel imprint, ...
Apr 20, 2021

Military: Chadian president killed after 30 years in power
N'DJAMENA, Chad - Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed Tuesday on the battlefield in a fight against rebels, the military an...
Apr 20, 2021

Latino groups want DOJ probe of shooting by Chicago police
CHICAGO - Latino lawyers and community leaders on Tuesday will ask the Department of Justice to investigate the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a Chicago police officer. The group also will cal...
Apr 20, 2021

US Ambassador in Moscow heads home for consultations
MOSCOW - The U.S. ambassador in Moscow said Tuesday he will head home for consultations - a move that comes after the Kremlin prodded him to take a break after Washington and Moscow traded sanctions. ...
Apr 20, 2021