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• Canadians take in royal wedding, raise a toast to...
  The bells may have pealed an ocean away, but many Canadians across the country roused themselves before dawn to be part of the spectacle as ...
• High winds force hundreds of workers from downtown...
  REGINA - High winds on Friday forced hundreds of workers out of the Saskatchewan Government Insurance building in downtown Regina. A government ...
• Man who tried to carjack MLA Lyle Stewart politician...
  REGINA - A man who violently tried to carjack Thunder Creek MLA Lyle Stewart has been sentenced to five years in prison. Clayton Friday pleaded ...
• Man pleads guilty to attempting to carjack MLA...
  REGINA - A Saskatchewan man with five impaired driving convictions has pleaded guilty to trying to carjack the vehicle belonging to Thunder Creek ...
• Man from Moose Jaw carries Paralympic flame into...
  OTTAWA - A disabled track athlete from Moose Jaw carried the Olympic flame Wednesday into the House of Commons to launch a 10-day torch relay ...
• Bilodeau ends Canada's home gold drought with men's...
  WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. — Canada's Olympic gold medal drought at home is finally over. Freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau won the men's moguls crown ...
• How to help Haitian relief efforts
  The following is a list of reputable aid organizations currently seeking cash donations for relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Donations ...
• Former Times-Herald reporter remembered at funeral
  VANCOUVER - Reporter Michelle Lang had a love of life and a curiosity that led her to Afghanistan and her death, her funeral heard Monday. About ...
• Reporter who worked at the Times-Herald remembered...
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Burly, battle-hardened Canadian soldiers kneeled before a row of caskets and wept openly Friday while others among them ...
• Former Times-Herald reporter killed by blast in...
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A former Moose Jaw Times-Herald reporter was killed along with four Canadian soldiers Wednesday afternoon in a powerful ...
• Former chief of Sask. First Nation gets eight months...
  NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - The former chief of a Saskatchewan First Nation has been sentenced to eight months in jail for buying votes. Charles ...
• Sask. gov't to help evicted tenants get back rent...
  REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is trying to help 23 people who were forced out of their apartment building due to safety hazards. The Fire ...
• Health Canada advises parents to stop using type of...
  OTTAWA — Health Canada issued on Tuesday an urgent advisory to parents to immediately stop using Amby Baby Motion Beds after two infants in ...
• RCMP cracks down on Quebec ring that allegedly...
  MONTREAL - Police in Quebec are dismantling an organization that allegedly swindled seniors out of their retirement savings. The RCMP is hoping ...
• No charges against workers who abandoned group home...
  WINNIPEG - Two group home employees who were fired for abandoning two of the home's residents in a van last spring while they went to a movie ...
• Boy dies in hospital after surviving for two days in...
  HALIFAX - James Delorey, the Cape Breton boy who died in hospital after miraculously surviving two nights lost in the frozen wilderness, was ...
• Toddler within arm's reach as mother shot dead
  TORONTO - A mother shot dead as her two-year-old daughter sat within arm's reach in their pickup truck was targeted by a man who laid in wait in ...
• Watchdog's scathing report passes judgment on RCMP...
  VANCOUVER - The federal watchdog over the RCMP has passed judgment on allegations that have haunted the Mounties since Robert Dziekanski's death: ...
• Saskatchewan sets up new agency to retain and...
  REGINA - Saskatchewan has introduced a new physician recruitment agency to work as a one-stop point of contact for doctors who are considering ...
• Street preacher exonerated; judge says the way he...
  CALGARY - A judge says the way the City of Calgary handled a street preacher was an abuse of power. Provincial court Judge Allan Fradsham threw ...
• Sask. capping interest rates on payday loans at 23...
  REGINA - Saskatchewan is following other provinces by capping the rate of interest that payday loan companies can charge people who borrow money. ...
• Manitoba nurse facing sexual assault charges allowed...
  WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man facing charges of sexually assaulting two boys has been allowed to continue working as a nurse. The man was arrested in ...
• Mom acquitted of murdering infant son
  TORONTO - After living with the term baby killer for 13 years, Sherry Sherret-Robinson's exoneration came in a flash Monday, as the Court of ...
• Tank cars on derailed freight train still burning at...
  SPY HILL, Sask. - Several tank cars continued to burn Monday at a site near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba boundary where a CN freight train derailed. ...
• Autistic boy airlifted to Halifax hospital after...
  SOUTH BAR, N.S. - An autistic boy who survived two frigid nights lost in a densely wooded area of Cape Breton probably saved himself by seeking ...
• Teens charged after burned body of 16-year-old found...
  REGINA - Two teenagers have been accused in the killing of a 16-year-old boy whose body was then set on fire. The charred remains of the youth ...
• Police find $1.2 million in cash buried in container...
  THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Police searching a home in northern Ontario have literally uncovered a whopping $1.2 million in cash buried outside. The ...
• N.S. man angry hospital wouldn't help father having...
  HALIFAX - An elderly woman with a cane and a heart condition was told to bring her husband into a Nova Scotia hospital on her own or call 911 ...
• Senior financial officer of First Nations University...
  REGINA - The senior financial officer at the First Nations University of Canada has been dismissed.The minister in charge of post-secondary ...
• Winnipeg fire department investigating photos being...
  WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg fire department says it is investigating to find out why two firefighters battling a blaze that caused $100,000 damage to ...