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Community projects
New designs plans unveiled for proposed Senator Allen Bird Memorial Centre rebuild
Just over two years after the fire that destroyed the former Senator Allen Bird Memorial Centre in Prince Albert, plans are well in motion for a new building.The latest architectural drawings were unveiled during Tuesday's opening ceremony for the Gathering of Nations cultural event. Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) ...
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Treaty boundary signs
Signs show Saskatchewan leads reconciliation efforts: Lt. Gov. Mirasty
The province of Saskatchewan is leading the way when it comes to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, said Lieutenant Governor Russell Mirasty in Prince Albert on Tuesday. Mirasty, who is Cree and a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, was in the city as new highway signs that will mark the b...
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Firearm and Bear mace Discharged
Big River RCMP investigating shooting and bear macing incidents
At around 7:50 p.m. on August 25, Big River RCMP received a report of an adult male with a gunshot wound injury on Big River First Nation, Sask.Officers responded and located the injured male at a residence on Big River First Nation. He was taken to hospital with injuries described as non-life threatening.An investigat...
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Wildfire response
Sandy Bay evacuation continues as two-week-old wildfire continues to burn
Nearly two weeks after a lightning strike sparked a massive fire in northeastern Saskatchewan, over 1,400 members of a nearby Indigenous community remain evacuated.According to Monday's update from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, the majority of the youth and adults from Sandy Bay remain spread out amongst hotels in Prin...
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Saskatchewan
Sask. Education Minister confident in cellphone classroom policy
One week before school is back in session and Saskatchewan's Education Minister is confident teachers will be able to successfully implement the provinces new cell phone policy when students return to the classroom."I've heard from several teachers all over the province and I think there's a bit of a relief,"...
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Girl dies after crash involving four pedestrians on Saskatchewan First Nation
A girl is dead and a man is facing drunk-driving charges after a crash on a Saskatchewan First Nation involving four pedestrians, including three children.RCMP say the crash took place Saturday afternoon on The Key First Nation.Police say a girl under the age of 12 died, while two other girls under 12 were taken to hos...
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Cold War Artifacts
More than 100 Cold War fallout shelters mapped in Saskatchewan by military historian
They are hidden pieces of history scattered throughout Saskatchewan.Fallout shelters, also known as Fallout Reporting Posts (FRPs) were built during the Cold War to thwart the effects of a nuclear attack on the country. Andrew Burtch is a military historian who has mapped as many of these remaining underground bunkers ...
Aug 27, 2024
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distribution
LLRIB cows and plows settlement to benefit individual members, community investments
Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) Chief Tammy Cook-Searson is shedding some light on how the historic $601.5 million Treaty 6 Agricultural Benefits Claim (cows and plows) will be distributed. Cook-Searson explained it shouldn't be a surprise to band members on how the funds will be spent as the topic of distribution was...
Aug 26, 2024
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'Definitely dissuasive': Skyrocketing farmland prices a struggle for young farmers
Will Robbins has been in the process of taking over his family farm southwest of Saskatoon. The 43-year-old grows organic wheat, oats, lentils, peas and occasionally flax and mustard on 445 hectares of land near Laura, Sask. In 1996, when he was still a teenager, prices in west-central Saskatchewan were on average $980...
Aug 26, 2024
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'Don't light the fireplace' and other survival tips for new Sask. MLAs
Just like new students preparing for class, at least two dozen new MLAs will wear metaphorical backpacks - packed with campaign promises - into the Saskatchewan Legislative Building for the first time this fall."Honestly, it's kind of like your first day of school," said David Buckingham.He was first elected ...
Aug 26, 2024
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Canada
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In the news today: Sentencing for convicted killer, and military sex assault verdict
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Sentencing hearing for Winnipeg serial killer Families and supporters of four Indigenous women who died at the hands of a serial killer are expected to address the man for the first time today in a Winnipeg courtroom. A judge conv...
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Verdict expected in sexual assault trial for former head of military HR
OTTAWA - An Ottawa judge is expected to deliver a verdict this morning in the sexual assault trial for former vice-admiral Haydn Edmundson. He was the head of military personnel in 2021 when he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman on board a navy ship in 1991. During the two-week trial in February, the complainan...
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Sentencing hearing for Winnipeg serial killer to hear from women's families
WINNIPEG - Families and supporters of four Indigenous women who died at the hands of a serial killer are expected to address the man for the first time today in a Winnipeg courtroom. A judge convicted Jeremy Skibicki last month of first-degree murder in the 2022 slayings, which put another spotlight on the issue of mis...
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'Loopy', 'whacky' or a 'big blue tent'? Growing pains for Rustad's B.C. Conservatives
VICTORIA - When BC United staged a news conference in Victoria last week, party officials turned up with a prop - a literal tinfoil hat, emblazoned with a B.C. Conservative Party logo and the words "5G Resistant Endorsed by John Rustad." On Tuesday, BC United Leader Kevin Falcon followed up by saying the B.C....
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B.C. brings in 'bell to bell' school phone ban, as new access rules target protesters
VANCOUVER - Cellphone use will be restricted in all British Columbia school districts when pupils return next week, as the province becomes the latest to curtail the use of the devices in classrooms. Premier David Eby says all school districts now have policies in place to ban cellphone use "bell to bell," in...
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Ontario teen, due to start at UBC, dies in fall off 50-metre cliff in Metro Vancouver
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. - A 17-year-old from Ontario who was about to start his studies at the University of British Columbia is dead after climbing over a fence and falling off a cliff in a popular Metro Vancouver park. North Vancouver assistant fire chief Dwayne Derban said the boy was with three friends in an off-trai...
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Agriculture
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Bourgault Tillage Tools purchases Iowa parts company
St. Brieux, Sask. based Bourgault Tillage Tools (BTT) has purchased Herschel Parts from Alamo Group. Mark Collins, the marketing manager of Herschel P...
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USask agriculture and sustainability projects receive Canadian Space Agency funding
Two University of Saskatchewan (USask) research projects have received funding to use satellite technology for detailed mapping and analysis of the Ea...
Aug 26, 2024
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CN, CPKC rail service to resume after dispute
Traffic at Canada's two largest railways is slated to resume today as a rail work stoppage comes to an end following a Saturday decision from the fede...
Aug 26, 2024
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'Definitely dissuasive': Skyrocketing farmland prices a struggle for young farmers
Will Robbins has been in the process of taking over his family farm southwest of Saskatoon. The 43-year-old grows organic wheat, oats, lentils, peas a...
Aug 26, 2024
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Tackling tan spot disease in wheat
One of the more recently discovered diseases that threaten wheat crops is a fungal infection called tan spot disease. In infected crops, if you look c...
Aug 23, 2024
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CFA pleased to see rail service disruption end
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) said the Labour Minister acted in the best interests of Canadians, including farmers, by invoking Section...
Aug 23, 2024
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World News
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Palestinian officials say Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank have killed 9 people
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel launched raids across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, where its forces killed at least nine Palestinians and sealed off the volatile city of Jenin, according to Palestinian officials. Israel has carried out near-daily raids across the West Bank since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza trigger...
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Palestinian officials say Israeli raids across occupied West Bank have killed 9
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel launched raids across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, where its forces killed at least nine Palestinians and sealed off the volatile city of Jenin, according to Palestinian officials. Israel has carried out near-daily raids across the West Bank since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza trigger...
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Feds file new indictment in Trump Jan. 6 case, keeping charges intact but narrowing allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) - Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a new indictment against Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election that keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity on former presidents. The n...
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Feds file new indictment in Trump Jan. 6 case, keeping charges intact but narrowing allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) - Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a new indictment against Donald Trump that keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity on former presidents. The new indictment removes a section of the indictment that d...
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Utah mother and children's book author Kouri Richins to stand trial in husband's death, judge rules
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - A Utah mother of three who published a children's book about grief after her husband's death and was later accused of fatally poisoning him will stand trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. Utah state Judge Richard Mrazik ruled on the second day of Kouri Richins' preliminary hearing that prosecutors had p...
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Utah mother and children's book author Kouri Richins to stand trial in husband's death, judge says
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - A Utah mother of three who published a children's book about grief after her husband's death and was later accused of fatally poisoning him will stand trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. Utah state Judge Richard Mrazik ruled on the second day of Kouri Richins' preliminary hearing that prosecutors had p...
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