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SUMA ready to lobby after convention
The Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) is ready to go to work after their annual convention wrapped up in Saskatoon on Wednesday.At the convention delegates voted on a number of reso...
Feb 8, 2019

Finance Minister says feds focused on money laundering fight in B.C., globally
VICTORIA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says fighting money laundering in Canada and abroad is on the federal government's agenda. He says the federal government is working together with British Colu...
Feb 8, 2019

Volunteers ready US aid set for Venezuela as Maduro digs in
CUCUTA, Colombia - Dozens of volunteers prepared sacks of rice, canned tuna and protein-rich biscuits for malnourished children at a warehouse on the Colombian border on Friday as Venezuela's oppositi...
Feb 8, 2019

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques' helps repair leaky space toilet: NASA
MONTREAL - As proof that life as an astronaut isn't always glamorous, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques' duties aboard the International Space Station recently included fixing...
Feb 8, 2019

Paul Dewar, former NDP foreign affairs critic, dies of cancer at 56
OTTAWA - Paul Dewar, a teacher and union leader from Ottawa who became the New Democratic Party's foreign affairs critic, died Wednesday after contending with brain cancer for a year. Despite struggli...
Feb 8, 2019

Little movement in local fraud case
More than a year after a Prince Albert man was charged with fraud stemming from a two-year investigation by Waskesiu RCMP, there has been little movement in the case. The case involving George Wilson ...
Feb 8, 2019

Some workers still unpaid after shutdown, dread what's next
Nearly two weeks after the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S history, many federal workers still have not received their back pay or have only gotten a fraction of what they are owed as go...
Feb 8, 2019

Alberta strikes working group to make recommendations to ban conversion therapy
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has created a working group to determine the most effective way to ban conversion therapy. Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says the practice is both damaging and h...
Feb 8, 2019

Infrastructure bill faces many potholes in months ahead
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pronounced himself eager to work with Congress on a plan to rebuild America's crumbling roads and bridges, but offered no specifics during his State of the Union sp...
Feb 8, 2019

Politics prevail in rush to supply Venezuela much-needed aid
CUCUTA, Colombia - For Anahis Alvarado, whose battle with kidney failure has become more desperate as Venezuela sinks deeper into crisis, the prospect of bringing in emergency medical and food supplie...
Feb 8, 2019

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