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Pandemic underscores value of culturally sensitive Indigenous health care: experts
Doctors and front-line agencies say COVID-19 has underscored the value of culturally sensitive and community-based health-care services for Indigenous people and the need to continue them past the pan...
Mar 19, 2022
Former GM of Clearwater River Dene First Nation enters guilty plea to fraud
A man responsible for defrauding a northern Saskatchewan First Nation, while employed as their general manager, has been placed on probation for 30 months and ordered to pay back $13,000.Jonny Cheecha...
Mar 19, 2022
4 US troops die in Norway plane crash; unrelated to Ukraine
HELSINKI (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway's prime minister said Saturday. Jon...
Mar 19, 2022
Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces are blockading his country's largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned Saturday that the strategy will fail ...
Mar 19, 2022
Thompson scores in OT as Sabres beat Flames 1-0
CALGARY - Tage Thompson scored the overtime winner and Dustin Tokarski made 24 saves as the Buffalo Sabres won 1-0 Friday night over the Calgary Flames. Buffalo (21-33-8) has split the first two games...
Mar 18, 2022
China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year
BEIJING (AP) - China's national health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as the country battles an omicron-driven surg...
Mar 18, 2022
Hall scores in third to lift Bruins to a 4-2 victory over Winnipeg Jets
WINNIPEG - Taylor Hall scored a power-play goal with 4:47 left in the third period to help lift the Boston Bruins to a 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday. Hall took advantage of a bouncing p...
Mar 18, 2022
Rep. Don Young, longtime Alaska congressman, dies at 88
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican who was the longest-serving current member of Congress, has died. He was 88. His office announced Young's death in a statement Friday night...
Mar 18, 2022
Norris scores the winner, Senators beat Flyers 3-1
OTTAWA - Josh Norris scored the winning goal midway through the third period Friday as the Ottawa Senators defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 and snapped a three-game losing streak. A slapshot from ...
Mar 18, 2022
A message of support to Ukraine from the snow in Paddockwood
A man from Paddockwood wanted to show his support for those enduring the war in Ukraine through a snow sculpture.Resident Elmer Lammedee created the sculpture using his hands, a shovel and a carpenter...
Mar 18, 2022
