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Google digitizes artworks in Puerto Rico for 1st time
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufio Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face and heavy expression lines, a depiction of a working-...
Nov 07, 2019
Human rights ruling says Manitoba must offer gender-neutral birth certificates
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has been ordered to start offering non-binary sex designations on its birth certificates. A human rights adjudicator has also ordered the province to pay $50,00...
Nov 07, 2019
Gap CEO steps down amid slumping sales
NEW YORK - Gap's announced Thursday that CEO Art Peck is stepping down as the company struggles to turn around a long-standing sales slump. The San Francisco-based retailer also slashed its earnings o...
Nov 07, 2019
Hopes rise that lifting tariffs could allow US-China accord
BEIJING - The prospects for a preliminary breakthrough in the U.S.-China trade war improved Thursday after the two sides agreed to reduce some punitive tariffs on each other's goods, though the full e...
Nov 07, 2019
Sask. donors raise $750,000 in children's hospital radiothon
Broadcasters from across Saskatchewan, including the full team from the family of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, helped raise a substantial sum of money for the new state-of-the-art children's faci...
Nov 07, 2019 On-air personalities of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group across the province lent their voices to the cause at the new Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in Saskatoon. (Teena Monteleone/paNOW Staff)
What'sHappeningNOW Nov. 7, 2019
News Director Glenn Hicks speaks with reporter Michael Joel-Hansen about the Prince Albert Grand Council First Nations Policing and Indigenous Justice Symposium.
Nov 07, 2019
Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is proposing to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural water district that had employed Secretary David Bernhardt as ...
Nov 07, 2019
Former P.A. hockey team manager accused of sexually exploiting minor
A former team manager with the Prince Albert Northern Bears hockey club has been charged with sexual exploitation. According to court documents, Jamie Engen, 38, appeared at Prince Albert Provincial C...
Nov 07, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Bittersweet Conservative post-election gathering set for Ottawa Wednesday
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer knows more Latin than most. And at this week's first Conservative caucus meeting following the Oct. 21 election, many will be listening for ho...
Nov 07, 2019
Trudeau defends NATO as French president warns of alliance's 'brain death'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending NATO after France's president suggested a lack of U.S. leadership is causing the 70-year-old military alliance's "brain death." Trudeau, who met Thu...
Nov 07, 2019
