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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: Time to break up company
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it's time to break up the social media behemoth. In a New York Times opinion piece published Thursday, Hughes said CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned Facebook into an...
May 09, 2019
Roughriders’ Dan Clark recovering at home
Saskatchewan Roughriders centre Dan Clark is back in Regina and is recovering from the relatively minor injuries he suffered in a single-vehicle rollover Tuesday.Roughriders general manager Jeremy O'D...
May 09, 2019 (file photo/CJME News Staff)
New head of Sask. RCMP eyes high crime rates
The new commander for the RCMP in Saskatchewan is jumping in with both feet, looking to rural crime and high crime rates as some of his biggest challenges.Assistant Commissioner Mike Fisher was signed...
May 09, 2019 RCMP F Division's new commander, Assistant Commissioner Mike Fisher, was formally signed into his post in a ceremony with the RCMP Commissioner. May 9 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
FSIN says trespass legislation ‘not First Nations-friendly’
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is preparing to launch a legal challenge against the provincial government's trespassing law."It's unconstitutional, it's not First Nations-friend...
May 09, 2019 Chief Bobby Cameron says the FSIN will challenge the province's trespassing law in court. (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Pediatric society calls for access to free contraceptives for everyone under 25
OTTAWA - The Canadian Paediatric Society is recommending that everyone under 25 should get confidential access to free birth control. In a position statement released Thursday, the society says a...
May 09, 2019
Death at post-prom party raises concerns about civic responsibility: observers
The death of a teenager at a post-prom party held at an Airbnb rental property north of Toronto should be raising questions around safety and civic responsibility in an evolving industry, lawyers and ...
May 09, 2019
Former senator links hijab and mutilation at Quebec secularism hearings
QUEBEC - Hearings into Quebec's secularism bill veered off track Thursday when a former senator drew a connection between the Muslim head scarf, female genital mutilation and forced marriage. Que...
May 09, 2019
Beyak suspended from Senate over refusal to delete racist letters from website
OTTAWA - Lynn Beyak cast herself as a defender of free speech and a victim of political correctness moments before senators voted summarily Thursday to suspend her without pay from the Senat...
May 09, 2019
'Big Bang Theory' tops 'Game of Thrones' in weekly ratings
LOS ANGELES - In the ratings battle between titans "The Big Bang Theory" and "Game of Thrones," laughs won out. CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" was last week's top-rated program, with 12.5 million viewers ...
May 09, 2019
Arsenal into Europa League final; Chelsea, Frankfurt to ET
MANCHESTER, England - Arsenal qualified for the Europa League final by beating Valencia 4-2 thanks to a hat trick from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on Thursday, completing a 7-3 win on aggregate. The oth...
May 09, 2019
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