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Chinese envoy warns Canada against granting asylum to Hong Kong protesters
OTTAWA - The Chinese ambassador to Canada is warning the Trudeau government not to grant asylum to Hong Kong residents fleeing a widely criticized national security law imposed by Beijing. Ambassador ...
Oct 15, 2020
Broadway reaches for normalcy with Tony Award nominations
NEW YORK - Broadway's coronavirus-shortened season is getting an awards process that reflects this tumultuous year - incomplete, seemingly unfair and filled with loss. Nominations for Tony Awards will...
Oct 15, 2020
Roman Polanski honours Poles who saved him from the Holocaust
WARSAW, Poland - Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a ch...
Oct 15, 2020
Canadian Cory Johnston challenging for Bassmaster Elite angler-of-the-year honours
Consistency is really paying off for Canadian Cory Johnston. The Cavan, Ont., resident has qualified for the final day of competition in four of the last five Bassmaster Elite tournaments, including a...
Oct 15, 2020
'Bad Hombres' film uses baseball to show the game of borders
RIO RANCHO, N.M. - People have always crossed borders to play baseball, and the sport routinely reaches across borders to fans. But rarely do players have to cross a border almost every day to partici...
Oct 15, 2020
Quebec reports 969 new cases of COVID-19 as death toll linked to virus rises by 28
MONTREAL - Quebec is reporting 969 new cases of COVID-19 and eight deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours. Health authorities said today another 22 deaths newly linked to the ...
Oct 15, 2020
Canada's Chenard calls an end to storied career as international soccer referee
Veteran Canadian official Carol Anne Chenard has retired from International soccer after some 15 years as a FIFA international referee. The 43-year-old from Summerside, P.E.I., was slated to work the ...
Oct 15, 2020
Trauma Informed-Culturally Sensitive Arts Delivery Training
Camp Saskatchewa is excited to be offering this training course to artists in the province who wish to broaden their education and increase their confidence when working with remote or under-served co...
Oct 15, 2020
Moe and Meili go head to head in only leaders’ debate
Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe and NDP Leader Ryan Meili took turns trying to score points off each other in an exceedingly civil - though at times heated - debate Wednesday.Both Meili and Moe mo...
Oct 15, 2020
A Second Wave - What's Next for Seniors
Lately the daily figures have been creeping up slowly but surely and many epidemiologists and infection control specialists have been predicting that a second wave of COVID-19 is inevitable. Most expe...
Oct 15, 2020
