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Agency watchdog slams conditions at ICE detention facilities
WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog says rotting food, mouldy and dilapidated bathrooms and agency practices at immigration detention facilities may violate detainees' ri...
Jun 06, 2019
UNB prof under fire for immigration views to retire, school says
FREDERICTON - A University of New Brunswick professor denounced by colleagues for promoting what they say are racist arguments about immigration has agreed to retire. The school announced Tuesday that...
Jun 06, 2019
Feds have failed to explain 'inaction' in Grassy Narrows: UN rapporteur
OTTAWA - A United Nations human-rights expert says the case of a northern Ontario First Nation plagued by mercury contamination is "emblematic" of an overall pattern of inaction in the face of grave r...
Jun 06, 2019
Police say house fire 'suspicious'
The Prince Albert Police Service has confirmed they are treating a house fire in the city's east flat area as suspicious, and are investigating with the assistance from the Prince Albert Fire Departme...
Jun 06, 2019 Neighbours have told paNOW the heard what sounded like an explosion come from the home early Monday morning. (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)
Scheer vows internal free-trade deal as part of vision for stronger federation
OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer is promising that a Conservative government would negotiate a deal to eliminate trade barriers among Canada's provinces. The Conservative leader made the commitment Tuesday...
Jun 06, 2019
Machine in public works yard causes fire
A nasty fire at the public works yard on 10th Street East this morning turned out to be a piece of operating equipment that caught alight. The PA Fire Department was called to the incident around 8:15...
Jun 06, 2019 Crews were able to get to the piece of equipment that was ablaze and ventilate the toxic fumes. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
Local Jiu-Jitsu student prepares for big fight
Some of the best grapplers in the province will be competing Friday night in Saskatoon at the latest Modern Fighting Championship event (MFC3), and a man from Prince Albert is on the card.Lee Gareau, ...
Jun 06, 2019 Lee Gareau with Instructor Corey Lillis. (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)
Policing community eyes change after missing, murdered Indigenous women inquiry
OTTAWA - Melanie Morrison says her sister went missing in June 2006 - a unusual disappearance because she was a young mother. She says when their mom went to police, her sister was presumed to be "out...
Jun 06, 2019
Dickenson isn’t stressing about Riders’ pre-season record
Craig Dickenson won't get preoccupied over the pre-season.The Saskatchewan Roughriders go into Thursday's game against the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers with an 0-1 record in the 2019 CFL's exhibitio...
Jun 06, 2019 Craig Dickenson. (file photo/CKOM News Staff)
Leaders of white supremacist prison gang charged in killings
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were charged Thursday with directing killings and drug smuggling from within California's most secure prisons, U.S. prosecutors said. ...
Jun 06, 2019
