The Saskatoon SPCA said it is trying to find Captain Crunch, a kitten believed stolen earlier this week. The kitten went missing from its kennel on the shelter’s adoption floor sometime between 4:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. CT on Jan. 22. Related Distressed animals seized from Elrose, Sask. home: Animal Protection Services Shelter management said they reviewed […]
Inside Moncton’s Resurgo Place, a line of people stretches down the hallway, each one clutching a busted item: a boom-box, coffee maker, lamp, shop vacuum, tattered gloves. Every so often a bell can be heard from inside the room and a cheer goes up. Another well-loved item has been fixed. This is the Moncton Repair […]
For nearly two years the Trump-Russia affair has dominated front pages and mired the president’s administration in conflict and controversy. But what is it exactly? How did it begin? And where is it going? The inquiry is being led by Robert Mueller, a widely respected former director of the FBI. Holed up in an unremarkable […]
If the businessmen at the helm of the RendezVous LeBreton Group can’t resolve their legal dispute and come through on their stalled plans to redevelop LeBreton Flats, the National Capital Commission has a “viable” back-up proposal for the long-awaited city-building project “ready to go,” the Crown Corporation’s outgoing CEO says. “Whether RendezVous LeBreton continues or not, […]
UNITED NATIONS (REUTERS) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on countries at the United Nations on Saturday (Jan 26) to “pick a side” on Venezuela, urging them to back Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido and calling for free and fair elections as soon as possible. Pompeo was addressing the 15-member UN Security Council, […]
A St. Louis police officer has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after the authorities said he fatally shot another officer during a game of Russian roulette. The officer, Nathaniel R. Hendren, was charged on Friday in the death of Katlyn Alix, another officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Officer Hendren had been on […]
After two years of keeping the pedal to the metal, there are signs that the Canadian economy is going to ease off the gas a bit in 2019. But there is no sign yet of that expected slowdown in the labour market. Unemployment is still at 5.6 per cent, a 40-year low. There are all […]
BRUMADINHO, Brazil — Rescuers dug through mud and sludge on Saturday, a day after a dam from an open-pit mining complex collapse in southeastern Brazil left at least nine people dead and more than 300 missing. With the help of helicopters, emergency workers rescued 189 people in the hours after a torrent of mud broke […]
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Mexico’s new president has moved decisively to encourage migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Central America to stay and work in Mexico, making it easier for them to get visas and work permits and promoting investments and ambitious public works projects to create jobs. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policies are […]
Twelve-year-old Calvin Robertson-Laforet has enjoyed his first experience at the Canadian junior curling championships in Prince Albert, Sask., over the last week. The Grade 7 student from Iqaluit, Nunavut, had never been previously exposed to curling at this level. Related 2019 Canadian Masters Curling Championships coming to Saskatoon Curl Saskatoon bids on city hosting Olympic […]