Positive temperatures return to the forecast. Saskatoon forecast Monday Endless hours of light snow wrapped up the weekend and kicked of the work week in the city as temperatures tipped back into the minus teens to start the day on Monday. Light snow continued through the morning as we warmed up to around -11 before […]

Search on for hundreds of people missing from wildfires as firefighters continue to battle blazes at both ends of state. As wildfires raged at both ends of the state of California, officials released another grim statistic: six more bodies discovered in the burned-over town of Paradise and outlying areas, bringing the death toll there to […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey reacted with fury on Monday after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said President Tayyip Erdogan was playing a political game over sharing intelligence about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Le Drian had questioned remarks by Erdogan at the weekend in which he said Turkey gave tapes relating to […]

WINDSOR, Ont. – Police in Windsor, Ont., say five people died of drug overdoses in a 24-hour span over the weekend. They say they suspect the overdoses were related to fentanyl. Acting Staff Sgt. Douglas Cowper says the calls came in on Friday night through Saturday morning. He says overdoses aren’t uncommon in Windsor, but […]

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Scores of Congolese opposition supporters demonstrated in the capital Kinshasa on Monday against the choice of a joint candidate in December’s presidential election instead of the country’s well-known opposition leader. Former Exxon Mobil manager and businessman Martin Fayulu on Sunday won the nomination to be the single opposition candidate running to succeed […]

Waterloo Regional Police say they are investigating the thefts of two poppy donation boxes, including one that happened on Remembrance Day. Police said the box was swiped from the Tim Hortons location at Lancaster and Frederick streets in Kitchener on Sunday morning. A man was arrested and charged with theft. The stolen money was recovered […]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Netherlands resumed visa and passport services in Pakistan on Monday following a brief suspension, denying that its embassy had closed over security concerns after the country gave shelter to the lawyer of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case. Hard-line Islamists in Pakistan have blocked streets and called for the killing […]

Back in the 1970s, many thought Remembrance Day was losing its significance. What had once been a day off was reduced to a moment of silence, with little explanation of the past or the day’s significance to our young. With the First and Second World Wars a fading memory and peace at hand, most thought we had […]

CAIRO/PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will attend a Libya conference in Palermo, state news agency MENA said, his fist visit to Italy since the disappearance of Italian postgraduate student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016. Sisi departed Cairo, MENA said, to join a two-day conference in Sicily hosted by Italy to […]

PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – The U.N. envoy for Libya hopes another attempt to hold an election will take place by June after he scrapped a December plan, but said Libyans should first use a national conference in early 2019 to decide on the poll’s format. U.N. Special Envoy Ghassan Salame decided to abandon a plan […]