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Extreme cold warning blankets most of Saskatchewan
Wind chill values of -40 C are expected to develop as a cold arctic ridge settles over Saskatchewan.Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for the northern half of the province and for ...
Feb 24, 2019 Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for much of Saskatchewan. (Chris Carr/CKOM) : Teena Monteleone
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Families of those shot in Toronto attack seek ban on handguns, assault rifles
TORONTO - Seven months after a gunman went on a shooting rampage in Toronto's Greektown, survivors and victims' loved ones called on Ottawa to ban private ownership of handguns and assault r...
Feb 24, 2019
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Some polling units still open in Nigeria, a day after voting
KANO, Nigeria - Some polling stations remained open in several states across Nigeria on Sunday while votes were counted in Saturday's presidential election, widely seen as a tight race between the pre...
Feb 24, 2019
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Pope vows to end abuse coverups but victims disappointed
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with "the wrath of God" felt by the faithful, end the coverups by th...
Feb 24, 2019
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Trudeau tells Canadians to listen to clerk in SNC-Lavalin matter
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be pressured Monday to testify at a House of Commons committee looking into allegations the prime minister and his staff pressured former attorney gene...
Feb 24, 2019
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Mueller report looming, new attorney general in hot seat
WASHINGTON - William Barr has been attorney general for just one week but is on the cusp of staring down what will almost certainly be the most consequential decision of his long career: how much of t...
Feb 24, 2019
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Canada a leader, but more must be done for women in conflict zones: UN official
OTTAWA - Canada is a trailblazer when it comes to assisting women in humanitarian crises around the world, but far more needs to be done to improve outcomes for women and girls in conflict zones,...
Feb 24, 2019
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U.S. won't allow performance of Newfoundland play about man with disability
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A Newfoundland playwright says his failed two-year battle for a visa to perform in the United States speaks to the barriers facing independent artists telling diverse stor...
Feb 24, 2019
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UN: Last year saw highest number of Afghan civilian deaths
KABUL - More civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year than in any of the previous nine years of the increasingly bloody conflict, according to a U.N. report released Sunday, which blamed the spi...
Feb 24, 2019
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Plan to bring grieving mother's relatives to Halifax 'moving quickly'
HALIFAX - Federal officials are closer to bringing as many as 10 relatives of a grieving Syrian refugee to Nova Scotia, as Halifax residents prepared to gather Saturday for the funeral of her sev...
Feb 24, 2019
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