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Anonymous supporter makes big donation
The Rose Garden Hospice has received a generous contribution.Thursday afternoon at the organization's offices in the Gateway Mall an anonymous donor made a $50,000 donation to help make the facility a...
Dec 5, 2019 Marina Mitchell, left and Ralph Boychuk, hold a cheque showing the value of the anonymous donations. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Hockey manager pleads not guilty in P.A. sexual exploitation case
A former manager of the Prince Albert Northern Bears' hockey team, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual exploitation. Jamie Engen, 38, was surrounded by family at his latest court appearance T...
Dec 5, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Consensus comes 30 years later that Montreal massacre was an anti-feminist act
MONTREAL - Thirty years after the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, official acknowledgment has come that what happened on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique was an attack on f...
Dec 5, 2019
Snowbirds aerobatics team returns to full operations after crash in U.S.
OTTAWA - The Canadian military's Snowbirds aerobatics team is returning to full operations after a crash grounded the planes in the U.S. for more than a month. Military investigators are still trying ...
Dec 5, 2019
Manitoba NDP seek honorary premier title for Louis Riel
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition wants to give the title of honorary first premier to Metis leader Louis Riel. NDP Leader Wab Kinew has put forward a private member's bill that would bestow ...
Dec 5, 2019
Chinese ambassador warns Canada against adopting motion calling for sanctions
MONTREAL - China's ambassador to Canada is threatening what he called "very firm countermeasures" should Parliament adopt a motion calling for sanctions against Chinese leaders. Ambassador P...
Dec 5, 2019
Cale Makar making early run at Calder Trophy: 'I haven't seen anybody like him'
TORONTO - It was pointed out to Cale Makar back in September he didn't seem at all daunted by sky-high expectations. The defenceman had announced his arrival in the NHL some five months...
Dec 5, 2019
From seals to belugas, scientists describe worrying signs for Arctic 'sentinels'
HALIFAX - Scientists attending a national gathering of Arctic researchers are outlining a widening range of climate change risks for so-called "sentinel" species, such as ringed seals a...
Dec 5, 2019
Saudi Aramco plans $25.6B share sale in biggest ever IPO
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco on Thursday set a share price for its IPO - expected to be the biggest ever - that puts the value of the company at $1.7 tri...
Dec 5, 2019
Second trial date set for man accused of assaulting and robbing senior couple
A little more than four years after witnessing a man assault her father, a woman from the MacDowall area is hopeful she can finally have closure.Andrea Hlewka was asked by paNOW to comment on news of ...
Dec 5, 2019 Matt Olson has been scheduled to face trial Oct. 12, 2020 at Prince Albert Court of Queen's Bench. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
