Category Archives: National News
Finance ministers to talk housing, pensions and economy at annual meeting
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her provincial and territorial counterparts say housing, pensions and economic growth will be hot topics as they gather in Toronto for their annual meeting. "I a...
Dec 15, 2023
Truck driver who caused deadly Broncos crash loses latest bid to stay in Canada
A judge dismissed applications Thursday from the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash and was fighting deportation back to India. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced to e...
Dec 14, 2023
Sask Teachers Say "Job Action" is "Inevitable"
Talks aimed at a new contract for teachers in Saskatchewan have come to an end, with no new deal. The Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and the the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee were bargaini...
Dec 13, 2023
Sex offender in Saskatchewan who took children into U.S. signs plea agreement
A convicted sex offender living in Saskatchewan who cut through a fence to drive across the Canada-U.S. border with two children and their mother has entered a plea agreement. The agreement ...
Dec 12, 2023
Cindy Woodhouse is the new AFN national chief after David Pratt concedes
Cindy Woodhouse became the new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations on Thursday, when she pleaded with Canadians to support the people she represents - and warned them to pay attention. "Yo...
Dec 07, 2023
2024 to bring slower food inflation as prices continue to moderate: report
Food prices will keep rising in 2024, though at a slower pace, according to the latest Food Price Report. The 14th annual report by Dalhousie University, the University of British Columbia, the Univer...
Dec 07, 2023
Defence expected to present case in murder trial of Saskatchewan Mountie
Defence lawyers are expected to present their case today in the murder trial of a former Saskatchewan Mountie. Bernie Herman, who is 55, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder i...
Dec 07, 2023
Six ballots, no winner: Assembly of First Nations election spills over to Thursday
Assembly of First Nations organizers sent delegates home without a new national chief late Wednesday after six rounds of balloting failed to produce a winner with enough votes to clear the 60 per cent...
Dec 07, 2023
Norman Lear, producer of TV's 'All in the Family' has died at 101
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with such topical hits as "All in the Family" and "Maude" and propelled political and social ...
Dec 06, 2023
Assembly of First Nations meeting kicks off as election of new national chief looms
A special meeting of the Assembly of First Nationskicked off in Ottawa on Tuesday, as chiefs get ready to elect a new leader. Hundreds of delegates flocked to a downtown Ottawa convention centre, wher...
Dec 05, 2023
