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WARNING: This story contains details of child abuse The evidence against World Bank employee Matthew Norman Ballek – who has been charged with distributing videos depicting the sadistic sexual abuse of toddlers and prepubescent children – is “extremely strong,” according to court documents filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia. Ballek was arrested by the […]

A new opinion poll suggests nearly half of Canadians oppose the pro-Palestinian encampments that have cropped up on some university campuses. Just 31 per cent of people who took the Leger survey last weekend said they support the encampments, while 48 per cent were against the demonstrations. About one in five said they don’t know. […]

The federal government will test its capacity to issue emergency alerts today. That means Canadians in most provinces and territories will receive a test alert on their cellphones, as well as through TV and radio broadcasts. The sole exception is Ontario, where the test will take place on May 15. Provincial and territorial emergency management […]

India’s envoy to Canada is scheduled to speak publicly today for the first time since the RCMP made arrests related to a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries. High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma is to address the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on the theme of current and future relations between India […]

 Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party has received millions of more dollars in donations compared with rivals ahead of this year’s election.  Fiscal returns to Elections Saskatchewan show the governing party raised $3.6 million from donors last year. The Opposition New Democrats had raised $1.4 million. The Saskatchewan United Party, which has one member in the legislature, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, remnants of Halley’s comet, peaks this weekend. And with just a waning crescent moon in the sky, it should be visible. The Eta Aquarids occur every year in early May. This year’s peak activity happens early Sunday with an expected 10 to 30 meteors visible per hour in the […]

The Amazing Race Canada touched down in Regina yesterday to film for the tenth season of the Canadian travel adventure contest. The crew started filming in British Columbia on April 23rd. This morning the crew was at Regina’s Mosaic stadium, for a football themed challenge – crowd noise seemed to be pumped into the stadium. […]

A signature carbon capture and storage project in Saskatchewan continues to miss emissions reduction goals, raising questions about the cost-effectiveness of the technology, says a report. “We don’t think carbon capture works as well as industry and promoters claim,” said David Schissel, an analyst who wrote the report for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, […]

Pens have been signed to Memorandum of Understanding by the governments of Saskatchewan and Alberta aimed at advancing the development of nuclear power generation. Saskatchewan Crown Investments Corporation Minister Dustin Duncan and Alberta Affordability and Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf signed the MOU at a ceremony at the Saskatchewan legislature on Thursday, May 2. According to a […]

The Canada Revenue Agency is going to audit Saskatchewan for not paying carbon levies on home heating, Premier Scott Moe said Monday. Moe said the agency has indicated it will look at Saskatchewan’s books to see how much the province owes in levies that weren’t paid to Ottawa. “They will ask if they can look at the […]