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Saskatchewan to continue using 'birth alerts' despite calls by inquiry to stop
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government says it will continue to track or seize at-risk babies despite a call to stop from the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls....
Jun 19, 2019 Saskatchewan legislature. (file photo/CKOM News Staff)
Woman charged with attempted theft, assault with a weapon
A 26-year-old woman is scheduled to appear in Prince Albert Provincial Court tomorrow after an incident at a business on 28th Street East last night. Police responded to the business after 8 p.m. for ...
Jun 19, 2019 (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Family Futures celebrates 25 years of service
Every year in Prince Albert, Family Futures provides ongoing and crisis support services to more than 300 pregnant women and families to enhance their health and well-being. This year marks the 25th a...
Jun 19, 2019 Family Futures employees celebrated 25 years of community service at a barbecue on Wednesday. (Joe Bexson/paNOW Staff)
Local farmer found guilty of causing unnecessary pain and suffering to cattle
A Porcupine Plain farmer was found guilty of two counts related to causing distress to his cattle.Judge Inez Cardinal convicted Alex Potoreyko of wilfully causing unnecessary pain and suffering to his...
Jun 19, 2019 Melfort Provincial Court (File photo/northeastNOW Staff).
UN high commissioner urges redress as Canada responds to MMIWG inquiry
OTTAWA - Canada's response to the conclusions of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls should include some form of redress for the victims and their families, says the Unite...
Jun 19, 2019
Man who stole human skull and kept it as 'curiosity' sentenced to jail
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A young Newfoundland man who robbed a human skull from a cemetery and kept it in his possession for more than a year as a "curiosity item" has been sentenced to four months in&...
Jun 19, 2019
Trial hears man shot at least nine times by Manitoba RCMP officer
THOMPSON, Man. - The manslaughter trial of an RCMP officer in northern Manitoba heard a man was shot at least nine times by the constable. Const. Abram Letkeman is on trial for the 2015 death of Steve...
Jun 19, 2019
Saskatchewan adds residents once again
Saskatchewan's population is continuing its upward trend.According to numbers released Wednesday by Statistics Canada, the number of people living in the province increased by 10,295 people in the pas...
Jun 19, 2019 (Submitted photo/CJME News)
B.C. mom tells inquest of son's descent into drugs, finds him 'gone' in bedroom
VICTORIA - Rachel Staples let out the dog, started brewing coffee and then immediately felt panic as she walked up to her son's room on April 20 last year, she told a coroner's inquest Monda...
Jun 19, 2019
Make passports free to ease new no-fly list measures, federal panel suggests
OTTAWA - A federal advisory panel says Ottawa should consider making passports free to everyone for one year to ease the introduction of new no-fly list procedures. The coming changes ...
Jun 19, 2019
