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Successful, unusual golf season coming to an end
Recent frosty weather has brought an end to golf season in Prince Albert, and local courses are calling it a successful year.Cooke Municipal Golf Course officially closed earlier this week, putting a ...
Oct 16, 2020
'A tragedy for Quebec': Pierre Laporte's death remembered 50 years later
MONTREAL - At age 91, Marc Lalonde still remembers the shock he felt on Oct. 17, 1970 when Pierre Laporte's body was discovered in the trunk of a car at an airport south of Montreal, a week after he h...
Oct 16, 2020
Possible COVID-19 exposures in Sask. communities
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting residents of possible COVID-19 exposures in the province.According to a media release, the SHA is instructing those who were at the locations on the...
Oct 16, 2020
UK says EU trade talks 'over' but bloc sees room for a deal
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday that the U.K. must prepare for a no-deal break with the European Union unless there is a "fundamental" change of position from the bloc, as th...
Oct 16, 2020
UK's Johnson threatens to impose restrictions on Manchester
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatened to force the Greater Manchester region into the most severe level of COVID-19 restrictions after local officials refused to accept the government's fin...
Oct 16, 2020
New quantum centre in Ontario to probe nature's deepest and weirdest secrets
WATERLOO, Ont. - Canadian research will probe some of the deepest and strangest properties of the world within the atom in a new centre for the study of quantum matter. Quantum matter is the basic sci...
Oct 16, 2020
N.S., B.C. police watchdogs to probe officers' destruction of evidence in Assoun case
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog agency is asking its British Columbia equivalent to assist in probing whether officers broke the law when evidence was destroyed in the case of a wrongfully con...
Oct 16, 2020
Flames sign forward Andrew Mangiapane to two-year deal with AAV of US$2,425 million
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames have signed forward Andrew Mangiapane to a two year contract with an annual average value of US$2,425 million. Mangiapane, a native of Toronto, set career highs with 17 go...
Oct 16, 2020
Wiesblatt signs with Sharks
It didn't take long for the San Jose Sharks to sign Prince Albert Raiders forward Ozzy Wiesblatt. Just 10 days after the Sharks selected Wiesblatt with the final pick in the first round, the Sharks ag...
Oct 16, 2020
Trump on defence, courting voters in two must-win states
WASHINGTON - Backed into a corner and facing financial strains, President Donald Trump fought to defend his sagging reelection bid Friday in a state Republicans haven't lost in nearly three decades. W...
Oct 16, 2020
