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Suicide and mental health: A continued issue in Sask.
Some call it the most wonderful time of the year.For others who are experiencing mental health issues it can be a different story.Doug Kinar with the Canadian Mental Health Association Prince Albert t...
Dec 21, 2021
Police searching for missing 13-year-old
UPDATE: As of Jan. 13, the Prince Albert Police Service have reported Bird has been located.--Prince Albert Police are asking for help in finding a missing teen. Robyn Bird, 13, is believed to be in t...
Dec 21, 2021
'We're all hurting for him': mother pleads for answers regarding son's disappearance
Shirley Bear says she has no idea where her son is, nor why he may be connected to a serious incident in Prince Albert's midtown area.Byron Lee Bear, 27, has not been seen since the early morning of D...
Dec 21, 2021
NewsAlert: NHL players not going to Beijing Olympics due to COVID-19 concerns
NHL players won't be going to the 2022 Beijing Olympics, a person with direct knowledge of the decision said Tuesday. The move by league and the NHL Players' Association comes amid COVID-19 concern th...
Dec 21, 2021
Local wood product manufacturer benefits from strong growth in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan continues to have one of the top performing economies in the country.Manufacturing sales increased 53 per cent between October 2020 and October 2021, which is the highest year-over-year i...
Dec 21, 2021
MLB payrolls drop 4%, back to 2015 level
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball payrolls dropped 4% in 2021 compared to the league's last full season, and the $4.05 billion total was the lowest in a fully completed year since 2015. Falling pa...
Dec 21, 2021
A look at the latest COVID-19 developments in Canada
A look at the latest COVID-19 news in Canada and restrictions being brought in to try to stem the spread of the Omicron variant: - Quebec is reporting for a third day in a row a record number of cases...
Dec 21, 2021
Olympic team doctor confident Canada "can get a team in and out safely" from Olympics
The explosion of COVID-19 cases amid the new highly contagious Omicron variant couldn't come at a worse time for the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Less than seven weeks before the Games open on Feb. 5, outbr...
Dec 21, 2021
Friends of slain Montreal teen take up handgun fight, seeking ban at federal level
MONTREAL - Close friends of a Montreal teen killed in an apparently random act of gun violence last month have banded together in an effort to change gun laws. The group have named themselves Ensemble...
Dec 21, 2021
Military faces fresh calls for end of 'duty to report' for sexual misconduct
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is facing fresh calls to create an exception for victims of sexual misconduct and their confidantes from having to report incidents to their commanders. The request ...
Dec 21, 2021
