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Wheeler, Scheifele with goal and two assists each, Jets beat Flyers 7-3
WINNIPEG - Blake Wheeler continued his dominance over Philadelphia as Winnipeg used the power play to break the game open. Already the Jets career leader versus the Flyers, th...
Dec 17, 2019
Bus with Victoria students rolled after it moved for Jeep on logging road: RCMP
VANCOUVER - A bus loaded with University of Victoria students moved over for an oncoming vehicle just as a logging road narrowed before it rolled over in September, killing two stu...
Dec 17, 2019
Trappers happy to see Northwest Company reverse fur buying stance
Northern trappers are responding to the decision by The Northwest Company to again accept fur pelts.The announcement was made in a media release on the company's website last week. It reverses a decis...
Dec 17, 2019 A potential buyer takes a look at a few skins at the NSTA Fur Table in Prince Albert. (File Photo/Ian Gustafson/paNOW Staff)
Highway Patrol officers to get new body armour
Saskatchewan Highway Patrol officers are getting upgraded body armour.A request for bids is out to replace their current bulletproof vests, as well as buy new armour plates that can withstand high pow...
Dec 17, 2019 (File photo/CJME staff)
Smart gun argument makes Danforth shooting class action hard to win: expert
TORONTO - Arguing that the use of smart technology in gun manufacturing could have prevented a deadly mass shooting in Toronto's Greektown will take a proposed class action&nb...
Dec 17, 2019
Ottawa's consultation with Indigenous groups on pipeline was meaningful: Lawyer
VANCOUVER - Lawyers for the Canadian government say it conducted a new round of consultations with Indigenous groups about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that was reasonable, adequate...
Dec 17, 2019
Wilkinson 'wrestling' with how oilsands mine would fit into climate commitments
CALGARY - The federal environment minister says he's spoken with his Alberta counterpart about how Canada's climate commitments could weigh into his decision about a large proposed oils...
Dec 17, 2019
Mom of slain girls tells court her life is like a nightmare she never wakes from
VICTORIA - A mother of two murdered girls says her life has become a living nightmare from which she never awakes. Sarah Cotton told a B.C. Supreme Court sentencing hearing for her...
Dec 17, 2019
Montreal caleche drivers seek injunction to try to save their industry
MONTREAL - A group of Montreal carriage-horse owners and drivers are going to court in a last-ditch effort to save their industry weeks before a city-imposed ban is set to take effect. The group ...
Dec 17, 2019
Former P.A. correctional officer shares stories of life behind the walls of the 'big brick monster' in new book
Prince Albert's Pat Bliss can fondly the recall the day he walked through the doors of the "big brick monster" as he calls it, to start a job that would change his life.Bliss worked at the Saskatchewa...
Dec 17, 2019 Pat Bliss with his new book 'Behind the Razor's Ribbon - A Correctional Officer's Perspective'. (Nigel Mawxell/ paNOW Staff)
