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'She said she was five months pregnant': Candle Lake man comes to aid of rollover victim
Robin Humm commutes from Candle Lake to Saskatoon for work everyday, but Wednesday's morning drive was anything but routine.The recent snowfall has left roads icy and near Neuanlage, roughly 40 km nor...
Apr 08, 2020 (Facebook/ Robin Humm)
Senators head coach D.J. Smith on California road trip: 'The fear hadn't set in'
D.J. Smith noticed something when his Ottawa Senators arrived in northern California last month. There weren't many people around. "At that point, no one knew what we know now," the team's r...
Apr 08, 2020
More COVID-19 aid, PPE needed for First Nations and Metis, leaders say
OTTAWA - First Nations and Metis leaders say they need more from Ottawa to combat COVID-19 in their communities, including money, assistance with security and help acquiring protec...
Apr 08, 2020
N.W.T. creates enforcement squad for public health orders around COVID-19
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories is creating a squad of public health officers to enforce orders around the COVID-19 epidemic. N.W.T.'s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kami Kandol...
Apr 08, 2020
Eleanor, the golden bread winner
A local 79-year-old woman is doing her part in preventing anyone from going hungry in Prince Albert.Eleanor Land is baking bread for a non-profit organization in Prince Albert called Community Cares K...
Apr 08, 2020 Eleanor Land stands by her bread makers. (submitted photo/Eleanor Land)
Canada won't tip hand on possibility of import tariffs on Saudi oil
OTTAWA - Canada's energy minister will speak to his U.S. and Mexican counterparts Thursday in a bid to generate a common front ahead of talks by the world's biggest economies aimed at ending the ...
Apr 08, 2020
P.A. city council to debate tax increase for businesses assessed at over $5 million
Prince Albert city councillors will debate a tax increase for businesses assessed at over $5 million during Wednesday's special city council meeting. Previously the mill rate was applied evenly across...
Apr 08, 2020 (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
Politicians ask public to work from home, but are they taking their own advice?
Canada's politicians have been urging the public to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, but a look at federal and provincial leaders suggests not all of them are following their own a...
Apr 08, 2020
Calgary woman who died of COVID-19 was expecting 2020 to be best year: husband
CALGARY - A Calgary man whose wife died of COVID-19 last month says the two of them were expecting 2020 to be the best year of their lives. But things changed quickly in mid-March when Deb Diemer...
Apr 08, 2020
Local teacher continues with project despite closing of schools
A teacher at Wesmor Public High School is not letting COVID-19 stop a school project.Colette Daelick, who also acts as a facilitator for Following their Voices, is currently caring for a number of tob...
Apr 08, 2020 Colette Daelick is taking care of several tobacco plants at home. (Facebook/Wesmor Public High School)
