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Northern skies, family ties: The Paceys and the legendary Beaver
Moored along a northern shoreline, the Beaver waits for its next trip into the bush - still doing the job it was built for. (Brittany Caffet/650 CKOM)Beside a quiet dock in La Ronge, a floatplane bobs...
Sep 09, 2025
Macron appoints Defense Minister Lecornu as France's latest prime minister
PARIS (AP) - French President Macron late Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sbastien Lecornu as France's new prime minister, the country's fourth in about a year. Lecornu, 39, is the youngest defense...
Sep 09, 2025
Missouri Republicans advance Trump-backed plan to redraw US House districts
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's Republican-led House turned aside Democratic objections Tuesday and passed a plan backed by President Donald Trump to redraw the state's congressional districts s...
Sep 09, 2025
Gananoque, Ont., mayor wants to clamp down on Quebec parking scofflaws — literally
MONTREAL - The mayor of a town in eastern Ontario is proposing to clamp down on Quebec drivers who incur parking tickets by immobilizing their vehicles until they pay. Gananoque Mayor John Beddows inc...
Sep 09, 2025
Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters
ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter tr...
Sep 09, 2025
Liberal MPs meet in Edmonton to prepare for fall sitting, major projects agenda
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal caucus is meeting in Edmonton this week ahead of the fall sitting of Parliament. It's the first time the caucus has met since June, and the first caucus r...
Sep 09, 2025
Historic Melfort Post Office Will be Shared Space for Youth and Arts
Youth Matter Canada, the Melfort Arts Council, and Melfort Youth Evolution are thrilled to announce that the City of Melfort has approved their joint proposal to make the Historic Post Office building...
Sep 09, 2025
Over 350 Greenlandic women and girls forcibly given contraception by Danish officials, report says
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that d...
Sep 09, 2025
Minister who oversaw Quebec auto board during cost overrun scandal out of cabinet
QUBEC - One of the Quebec ministers who oversaw an auto insurance board project that incurred major cost overruns says he will be shuffled out of cabinet. Franois Bonnardel, now public security minist...
Sep 09, 2025
RCMP investigate shooting in Little Red River
One resident of Little Red River First Nation is in serious condition in hospital after being shot in a home in the community early this morning. Prince Albert RCMP were called at 2:15 a.m. to the com...
Sep 09, 2025
