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Volunteer Opportunity - Meals on Wheels
The Saskatchewan Health Authority - Prince Albert Region has opportunities for Meals on Wheels Drivers.Details are in the poster below.
Jun 29, 2021

Search for 12 year-old girl complete
Update: Summer Bear has been located and is safe.Battlefords RCMP are asking the public to help locate 12 year-old Summer Bear.The female youth was last seen around 6:30 p.m. along Highway 16 West, ju...
Jun 29, 2021

K-9 officer Kal helps arrest fleeing suspect
A suspect, wanted in connection to a shooting incident in Prince Albert's west flat Saturday morning, learned the hard way they could not run from the law.Police Service Dog (PSD) Kal was deployed to ...
Jun 29, 2021

Top US general says security in Afghanistan deteriorating
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S.'s top general in Afghanistan on Tuesday gave a sobering assessment of the country's deteriorating security situation as America winds down its so-called "forever war...
Jun 29, 2021

Wayne Simmonds signs two-year contract extension with Toronto Maple Leafs
TORONTO - Veteran forward Wayne Simmonds has signed a two-year contract extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs. The team says his contract has an average annual value of $900,000. Simmonds, 32, played...
Jun 29, 2021

South African court orders ex-president to jail for contempt
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying a court order to appear before an inquiry pro...
Jun 29, 2021

Scorching temperatures, calls to end Ethiopian aid funding : In The News for June 29
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 June 29 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jun 29, 2021

'Information is missing': Quebec teachers want Indigenous history taught differently
MONTREAL - First Nations leaders and Quebec history teachers say the timing is right to reset the way Indigenous history is taught in primary and secondary schools across the province. The recent disc...
Jun 29, 2021

Ottawa must stop aid to Ethiopia in light of human rights violations: advocates
Ottawa should stop sending millions of dollars in aid to the Ethiopian government and push for creating a no-fly zone and delivering air-dropped food aid to the people of the Tigray region, who have b...
Jun 29, 2021

'You forget how tall you are': Paralyzed Humboldt Bronco able to stand during physio
CALGARY - Behind his face mask, sweat glistening on his forehead, Ryan Straschnitzki was smiling. The 22-year-old, paralyzed from the chest down when a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey ...
Jun 29, 2021