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Iraqi Kurds invite Canada to help train, equip peshmerga after being frozen out
OTTAWA - Canada is being invited to once again provide training to Iraq's Kurdish security forces, who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Canadian soldiers in the war against the Islamic State group bef...
Jun 25, 2019
Vancouver police ask for help over theft of high-end snake chairs
VANCOUVER - A pair of unusual armchairs valued at about $40,000 each were taken from a high-end furniture store and Vancouver police are asking for the public's help in finding them. Police say t...
Jun 25, 2019
New Ukraine president, and former actor, to meet Trudeau in Toronto
OTTAWA - Ukraine's new president will visit Toronto next week for a major international conference on his country's future that Canada is hosting, and where he will meet Prime Minister ...
Jun 25, 2019
School zone safety remains important during summer holidays
As of June 27, the majority of students from both the Saskatchewan River's Public School Division and the Prince Albert Catholic School Division will be on summer holidays."We know that our students a...
Jun 25, 2019 While kids are enjoying their summer holidays it's a community effort to make
sure everyone enjoys the warm weather safely. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Crowds gather as massive Pride parade takes over downtown Toronto
Toronto was abuzz on Sunday as a colourful crowd lined downtown streets to celebrate all things LGBTQ at the city's annual Pride parade. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who marched in the par...
Jun 25, 2019
Fertility doc used own sperm to inseminate patients: medical regulator
TORONTO - Ontario's medical regulator says a fertility doctor used his own sperm to inseminate several patients as well as the wrong sperm with several others, finding that he committed professional m...
Jun 25, 2019
'Wasn't on the radar:' Parents accused in son's death unaware he had meningitis
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The father of a toddler who died of bacterial meningitis says he and his wife didn't realize their son had contracted the potentially deadly disease. David Stephan told a court in ...
Jun 25, 2019
Utah anglers net more than $6,000 in fines after overfishing
Eight Utah anglers are on the hook for more than $6,000 in fines after conservation officers confiscated 51 walleye at a float plane base in La Ronge. That's according to the Ministry of Environment, ...
Jun 25, 2019 These fillets were seized from the anglers and later donated to Scattered Site Outreach Program. (Government of Saskatchewan/Facebook)
David Saint-Jacques doing well after space flight: Canadian Space Agency
MONTREAL - The Canadian Space Agency says astronaut David Saint-Jacques is doing well as he continues his long journey home after a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station. The 49-...
Jun 25, 2019
Sask. carbon tax appeal heading to Supreme Court on Dec. 5
Saskatchewan's challenge of the carbon tax is to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada on Dec. 5.The provincial government previously announced it would appeal the decision of the Saskatchewan Court...
Jun 25, 2019 (Lisa Schick/CJME News Staff)
