Murray Wood: Signs of spring appearing in Saskatchewan
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Lobster dispute: RCMP release images of men near fish plant that was torched
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia RCMP released images Friday showing two men walking away from a fish plant on the night it burned to the ground amid an escalating dispute over an Indigenous lobster fishery....
Oct 30, 2020
Five Things about Canada's foreign-policy end run around Donald Trump
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne was recently pondering Canada's place in the world from his home in Shawinigan, Que., "the command centre of foreign policy, these days," a...
Oct 30, 2020
Trudeau names former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner as new consul general in Boston
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner to represent Canada as the country's consul general in Boston.Cuzner was an MP for Cape Breton for nearly 20 years but...
Oct 30, 2020
Class-action lawsuit in investment case can go ahead, Supreme Court rules
OTTAWA - A class-action suit over personal investments can proceed against a Montreal-based financial services firm, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Between 2005 and 2007, Ronald Asselin purcha...
Oct 30, 2020
Group launches legal action against N.B. government for greater abortion access
FREDERICTON - A national civil liberties group has filed legal notice in the first stage of a suit against the New Brunswick government for lack of access to abortion. The Canadian Civil Liberties Ass...
Oct 30, 2020
Federal parties rake in millions despite pandemic
OTTAWA - The COVID-19 pandemic hasn't stopped federal political parties from raking in millions of dollars in donations. Financial reports filed Friday with Elections Canada show that all the main par...
Oct 30, 2020
Race for Texas intensifies amid surging turnout, COVID cases
MCALLEN, Texas - Texas' surprising status as a battleground came into clearer focus on Friday as Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris devoted one of the race's final days to campaigning ...
Oct 30, 2020
Twenty-five years ago, Quebec nearly divorced Canada
OTTAWA - Twenty-five years ago today, Quebec came within a small margin of separating from Canada. The referendum on Oct. 30, 1995, saw 4.7 million Quebecers vote on whether the province should "becom...
Oct 30, 2020
In battleground Pennsylvania, Trump supporters are still all in for their president
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa. - Along a scenic stretch of historic Lincoln Highway, a meandering two-lane strip of east-west pavement that runs through southern Pennsylvania, partisan devotion to Donald Trump is on...
Oct 30, 2020
Pompeo wraps up anti-China tour of Asia in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrapped up a five-nation, anti-China tour of Asia in Vietnam on Friday with a call for regional unity to counter Beijing's growing assertiveness, a...
Oct 29, 2020
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Sarah Mills: Cancelled ferries on west coast put the short Saskatchewan commutes into perspective
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