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Queen Mary students create rainbow crosswalk for Pride Month
Students at Queen Mary Public School kicked off Pride Month by giving a nearby crosswalk a rainbow makeover Tuesday. Around ten students who attended this year's Saskatchewan Gay Straight Alliance Sum...
Jun 1, 2021
Bombs in Afghan capital Kabul kill at least 10, wound 12
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Three bombs rattled the Afghan capital Kabul late Tuesday killing at least 10 people and plunging the city into darkness, an Afghan government spokesman said. Two bombs explo...
Jun 1, 2021
A direction home: Bob Dylan album returned 48 years late
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) - After nearly five decades of blowin' in the wind, a double Bob Dylan album finally has a direction home: A man living in San Francisco has mailed the vinyl back to an O...
Jun 1, 2021
Quebec open to searching residential school sites for possible graves
Quebec's Indigenous Affairs Minister says the province is open to searching the grounds of former residential schools for graves if survivors and their families are in favour. Ian Lafrenire says his o...
Jun 1, 2021
Ceremony held at James Smith Cree Nation in honour of residential school lives lost
It's an event that has sent shockwaves across the country.The discovery of the remains of 215 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School site in British Columbia.On Monday, May 31, a ceremony ...
Jun 1, 2021
'Never made it home': Residents honour children found at former Kamloops residential school
It was warm and overcast Monday as more than 100 tri-community residents gathered to honour the 215 children who's remains were found last week at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.The eve...
Jun 1, 2021
Some increases, some decreases in SGI’s proposed rate change
Starting in January, vehicle insurance rates in Saskatchewan could be going up ... and down.On Tuesday, SGI announced it had asked the Saskatchewan Rate Review Panel to examine a proposed zero per cen...
Jun 1, 2021
Search for unmarked graves to resume at former residential school in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - A survivor of the largest residential school in the Maritimes says the search will continue for unmarked graves at the site north of Halifax. Dorene Bernard, a Mi'kmaq elder, confirmed today...
Jun 1, 2021
Discovery of Indigenous children's remains evidence of Canada's genocide: experts
OTTAWA - The discovery of 215 children's remains in an unmarked burial site in British Columbia has revived discussion about the residential school system, which the Truth and Reconciliation Commissio...
Jun 1, 2021
Temperatures expected in mid-30s as most of province under Special Weather Statement
As the calendar turns to June, Saskatchewan is heading into a bit of a heatwave with most of the province, including Prince Albert and the Northeast under a Special Weather Statement.Meteorologist wit...
Jun 1, 2021
