Author Archives:
Sask Polytechnic ready to host online celebrations
It's National Indigenous Peoples' Day Sunday and Saskatchewan Polytechnic is ready to help celebrate the occasion with a number of activities on Friday. Due to the COVID-19 virus, activities will be c...
Jun 18, 2020
Kenney, NDP trade barbs on pitch for Alberta to quit CPP, build own pension plan
EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition says having the province quit the Canada Pension Plan is a massive money-losing proposition and that Premier Jason Kenney is pursuing it out of spite against his nemesi...
Jun 18, 2020
WHL Return to Play protocol 'so important for everyone to hear' says Raiders' Michael Scissons
Nothing yet is set in stone, but the WHL even just having a target date and a Return to Play protocol is music to Michael Scissons' ears.Scissons is the business manager for the Prince Albert Raiders ...
Jun 18, 2020
WHL teams will need fans in seats to operate next season, says commissioner
CALGARY - Western Hockey League teams need their arenas at least half full with spectators next season to operate, according to the league's commissioner. The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down larg...
Jun 18, 2020
BDC ready to roll with loans for mid-sized companies hit hard by COVID-19
OTTAWA - Mid-sized Canadian businesses that are strapped for cash because of COVID-19 can now apply through their own banks to get loans of up to $60 million from the federal government. The loans, to...
Jun 18, 2020
Billie Eilish gets 3-year restraining order for trespasser
LOS ANGELES - A judge has extended to three years a restraining order taken out by Billie Eilish against a man who repeatedly appeared at her Los Angeles home. In a hearing, Superior Court Judge Diann...
Jun 18, 2020
Senate ethics committee urges censure of Tory senator over trip to China
OTTAWA - The Senate's ethics committee is recommending that a Conservative senator be censured for breaching the upper house's ethics code when he accepted an all-expenses-paid trip to China in 2...
Jun 18, 2020
Too many visitors forces B.C. to shut park on Canada-U.S. boundary
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia park that straddles the 49th parallel with Washington state will be closed because it's overwhelmed with visitors using it as a cross-border meeting point. The governm...
Jun 18, 2020
School guidelines include classroom modifications, strict hygiene and sanitization
The hoarding of toilet paper may be over, but be prepared for it to now start with hand sanitizer.It is going to be one of the major items kids and staff will need when they return to classrooms in Se...
Jun 18, 2020
Bad chocks, brake training blamed for crunching of prime minister's plane
OTTAWA - Military investigators say the Royal Canadian Air Force plane normally used by the prime minister hit a hangar wall last year after a maintenance crew used the wrong chocks, and not enough of...
Jun 18, 2020
