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Saskatchewan Assoc. of Conservation Officers Lotto
There is about one month left to get your ticket for our annual lottery! Tickets have to start making their way in to ensure they're all accounted for, so don't waste any more time!Tickets are $2.50, ...
Aug 10, 2022
Pacific FC sells CPL leading scorer Alejandro Diaz to Norwegian team
Pacific FC forward Alejandro Diaz, who leads the Canadian Premier League with 13 goals this season, has been sold for a club-record fee to Norway's Sogndal Fotball. Pacific said the sale, whose amount...
Aug 10, 2022
American Tommy Paul upsets second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz at National Bank Open
MONTREAL - American Tommy Paul pulled off the first big upset of the National Bank Open on Wednesday, dispatching second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz of Spain 6-7 (4), 7-6 (7), 6-3 at IGA Stadium. Paul, the ...
Aug 10, 2022
Draft speech on residential schools edited out blaming Ottawa for abuse: documents
Ottawa was careful to avoid admitting abuses Indigenous children suffered at residential schools happened "at the hands of the federal government" in remarks prepared for a Liberal cabinet minister af...
Aug 10, 2022
Quebec rejects plea to send army to northern region facing health worker shortage
MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department says it has rejected a request from officials in the northern region of Nunavik that the Armed Forces be brought in to help ease a shortage of health-care workers...
Aug 10, 2022
World food crisis prompts rise in child marriages: Canadian aid agencies
OTTAWA - Canadian aid agencies are warning that the world food crisis, made worse by the war in Ukraine, is leading to a rise in underage girls being forced into marriage. Plan International Canada sa...
Aug 10, 2022
Parkland Ambulance seeing weekly requests for help with car seats
Parkland Ambulance often finds parents struggle to get the perfect fit for their child in a car seat. Because a poor fit can be dangerous, they're offering some advice, and clinics on how to get the f...
Aug 10, 2022
Manitoba first province to sign on to federal funding for crisis hotlines
WINNIPEG - Manitoba is the first province to sign on to new federal funding for crisis centres that help victims of gender-based violence. The federal government will provide Manitoba up to $1 million...
Aug 10, 2022
Ottawa woman who went missing in 1980 had been living outside Canada, recently died
OTTAWA - A four-decade-old missing persons case has been resolved more than a year after the woman's family made a renewed plea for information. Dale Nancy Wyman told some family members she was think...
Aug 10, 2022
Quebec religious minorities feel less safe, hopeful due to secularism law: survey
MONTREAL - A new survey has found that religious minorities in Quebec are feeling less safe, less accepted and less hopeful since the province passed its secularism law three years ago. The survey res...
Aug 10, 2022
