Author Archives: CKOM News

VANCOUVER - Canada's health minister says talk about decriminalizing drugs to deal with the country's opioids crisis is premature until people have enough help to fight t...

WINNIPEG - The family of a 22-year-old Indigenous woman found unclothed and injured in a train yard is criticizing how Winnipeg police investigated her death. Police say Jaeda Vanderwal died from blun...

Text messages, social media posts and video are playing an increasingly central role in the investigation and prosecution of sexual crimes, but experts say digital evidence is a double-edged...

Derrick Moncrief is looking forward to going from the Riders to the Raiders. The 26-year-old product of Prattville, Ala., spent the past three CFL seasons playing linebacker with the Saskatchewan Roug...

Winnipeg Jets forward Mathieu Perreault is livid after the NHL's Department of Player Safety decided not to hand out any discipline to Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen following a controversial...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada shut down British Columbia's move to regulate what can flow through an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta. B.C. was appealing to the...

SaskPower is giving people a chance to volunteer to get a new commercial smart meter installed early this year. Since 2017, SaskPower has installed 8,000 commercial and industrial smart meters across ...

HALIFAX - Growing up in northern Nova Scotia in the 1950s, Wayde Bowles once spent 25 cents to watch wrestlers like "The Beast" compete at the Bailey Arena in Amherst. "It's hard to say exac...

FREDERICTON - A British couple is hoping to break through a glass ceiling with a balloon flight from Canada to Europe this summer. If the trip is successful, Deborah Day would become the first woman i...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military is looking for help taking out the trash in space. Over the last two years, the military's Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security program has awarded nearly $5 m...