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Hockey Saskatchewan announces new female under-22 league
Hockey Saskatchewan is creating a new junior league for women under the age of 22.The league is to start play in the 2023-24 season.According to the organization, more than a dozen communities showed ...
Dec 20, 2022
La Ronge Christmas display features orbs for the departed, Ukrainian flag
Although December brings with it the darkest days of the year, one couple from La Ronge are doing the best they can to make the small northern town just a little brighter. Lorne and Debbie Klassen, th...
Dec 20, 2022
Nunavut RCMP charge man with first-degree murder
KINNGAIT, NUNAVUT - RCMP in Nunavut have charged a 39-year-old man with first-degree murder. Police have charged Ottokie Pudluq in the death of a 33-year-old woman. She was found dead in late November...
Dec 20, 2022
Christmas yarns needed for next year
Yarns are needed in Prince Albert and not those of the tall tale variety. Eleanor George, the 86-year-old senior who spends much of the year knitting scarves and mittens for people in need has a need ...
Dec 20, 2022
LGBTQ refugee group only able to resettle 4 per cent of Afghans, urges Ottawa help
OTTAWA - LGBTQ refugee group Rainbow Railroad has only been able to resettle four per cent of the nearly 3,800 Afghans who have asked for help since the Taliban took over their country. The Toronto-ba...
Dec 20, 2022
Alouettes' Maas looking to bring intensity in second stint as head coach
MONTREAL - Jason Maas did not expect to find work within weeks of being fired as offensive co-ordinator of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, let alone a head coaching position. But when Montreal Alouettes...
Dec 20, 2022
Bloc, NDP criticize Tory MP over refusal to help Quebec family of 'illegal refugees'
OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois and New Democrat MPs are criticizing a Conservative colleague for refusing to help a Quebec family facing deportation and calling them "illegal refugees." Quebec MP Richard Marte...
Dec 20, 2022
Officer gets nearly 12 years for killing Atatiana Jefferson
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A former Texas police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019 was sentenced on Tuesday to 11 years and 10 months in prison for hi...
Dec 20, 2022
B.C. snowfall no winter wonderland for Vancouver's poor and homeless, says advocate
VANCOUVER - One of the heaviest one-day snowfalls to hit British Columbia's south coast in years has prompted cancellations or delays, power outages and other inconveniences, but advocates for the imp...
Dec 20, 2022
New study shows that high rates of workplace injuries in Montreal involve immigrants
MONTREAL - A new study from a Montreal research institute for occupational health and safety estimates that up to 80 per cent of people who are injured at work in the city and require rehabilitation a...
Dec 20, 2022
