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PA@5 Features Gord Vaadeland - Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Gord was born and raised on the family ranch near Big River, Saskatchewan along the southwest boundary of the Prince Albert National Park. The ranch happily shares this space with the wild, free rangi...
Mar 04, 2020
Bears legends come back and share their stories
Back when Morgan Willoughby and Jessica Vance started playing hockey, there weren't a whole lot of options. Up until the age of 11, the choice was either to play in a boys' league or to not play at al...
Mar 04, 2020 Bears alumni and University of Saskatchewan Huskies player Jessica Vance (left) and Morgan Willoughby (centre) share some smiles at the end of the ‘This Girl Can’ ice session on Tuesday at the Art Hauser Centre. Jeff D’Andrea/paNOW Staff
Local tourism builders to receive provincial awards
The Saskatchewan Tourism Awards are coming up next month in Regina, and two familiar names from the Prince Albert and Waskesiu areas have made the list of special recipients.Brad Muir from Waskesiu an...
Mar 04, 2020 The annual music festival held at Ness Creek has once again been recognized as a major draw for tourists. (file photo/ paNOW Staff)
PM creates COVID-19 cabinet committee to deal with novel coronavirus
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has created a new cabinet committee to deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak, which began in China but now has spread around the world. The COVID-19 cabinet c...
Mar 04, 2020
MacKay in the lead but nearly half of Tories undecided on leadership: poll
OTTAWA - A high number of undecided voters in the ongoing Conservative leadership race suggests there's room for others to catch up to, and potentially beat, front-runner Peter MacKay, says the v...
Mar 04, 2020
Majority of Canadians unhappy with Trudeau's handling of blockade crisis: poll
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians weren't happy with Justin Trudeau's handling of the natural-gas pipeline dispute in British Columbia that led to nationwide ra...
Mar 04, 2020
Iran says 92 dead amid 2,922 cases of the new coronavirus
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says the new coronavirus has killed 92 people amid 2,922 confirmed cases across the Islamic Republic. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour announced the new figures at a ne...
Mar 04, 2020
Lawyer says award-winning Iran filmmaker summoned to prison
TEHRAN, Iran - A lawyer for Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who just won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear, says he's been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence. Nasser Zarafshan told...
Mar 04, 2020
Trend-setting interest rate and something stinks; In The News for March 4
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 March 4 ... What...
Mar 04, 2020
Poll suggests MacKay has the lead in Tory leadership race but most undecided
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Peter MacKay is the favourite to win the federal Conservative leadership race, though most Canadians haven't made up their minds in the contest. The Leger Marke...
Mar 04, 2020
