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Arbuckle, Fajardo and Ellingson named CFL top performers for Week 3
Toronto quarterback Nick Arbuckle, Saskatchewan quarterback Cody Fajardo and Edmonton receiver Greg Ellingson have been named the top performers for Week 3 of the CFL season. Arbuckle completed 23-of-...
Aug 24, 2021

‘It is criminal, It is negligent’: NDP react to back to school planning
With the school season around the corner, the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Saskatchewan feels the lack of plan for kids returning to be worrying, and a moment of deja-vu."The Saskatchewan Party took ...
Aug 24, 2021

COVID-19 outbreak grows in N.W.T., military and Red Cross nurses deployed
YELLOWKNIFE - A COVID-19 outbreak in the Northwest Territories has grown to 219 cases. There are 190 cases in the Sahtu region in the territory's northwest, including 74 cases in Colville Lake and 84 ...
Aug 24, 2021

Paralympians thrilled to return to sport after concerns Games wouldn't happen
After a year's postponement, and major uncertainty about whether they'd get off the ground at all, the Tokyo Paralympics opened on Tuesday amid a barrage of fireworks and almost audible sigh of relief...
Aug 24, 2021

Trudeau mum on U.S. deadline to leave Kabul by Aug. 31 as he meets with G7 leaders
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is playing his cards close to his chest on whether he wants the G7 to push for an extension of the American military commitment to Afghanistan. Trudeau is attend...
Aug 24, 2021

US troops surge evacuations, CIA chief meets with Taliban
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military has pulled off its biggest day of evacuation flights from Afghanistan since the operation began, but deadly violence that has blocked many desperate evacuees from e...
Aug 24, 2021

US official says CIA director met Taliban leader in Kabul
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. official says that CIA Director William Burns visited Kabul on Monday to meet with the Taliban's top political leader. The official told The Associated Press the meeting betwe...
Aug 24, 2021

G-7 grapples with Afghanistan, an afterthought not long ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two months ago, the leaders of the world's seven major industrialized democracies met at the height of summer on England's southwest coast. It was a happy occasion: the first in-pers...
Aug 24, 2021

Campaign focuses on Ontario; First female New York governor: In The News for Aug. 24
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 24. What we are watching in Canada ... Al...
Aug 24, 2021

B.C. officials to show and tell on COVID-19 health and safety measures in schools
VICTORIA - Students in Kindergarten to Grade 12 and those attending post-secondary schools in British Columbia will get the COVID-19 lesson plan on health and safety today. Provincial health officer D...
Aug 24, 2021