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NEW YORK (AP) — After a tumultuous movie year marred by strikes and work stoppages, the Academy Awards showered nominations Tuesday on Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic, “Oppenheimer,” which came away with a leading 13 nominations. Nolan’s three-hour opus, viewed as the best picture frontrunner, received nods for best picture; Nolan’s direction; acting nominations for Cillian Murphy, Robert […]

The man who went on a stabbing rampage on a First Nation in Saskatchewan wasn’t on the radar of the province’s specialized enforcement team ahead of the massacre. Myles Sanderson was unlawfully at large when he killed 11 people and wounded 17 on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby community of Weldon, northeast […]

The expression is “it’s just nice to be nominated”. Last Mountain Distillery in Lumsden has brought back some prestigious awards from the Canadian Whisky Awards, held in Victoria, B.C.. For the fifth year in a row, Last Mountain has been named as having the best Wheat Whisky of the year for its “Straight Wheat Whisky”. […]

Parents were again making alternate arrangements for child care, as teachers in Saskatchewan are staging a province wide strike for one day only. Teachers held a one day strike last week. The biggest issue at the table is “class size and complexity”, an issue which the provincial government has absolutely refused to discuss in these […]

The province is expected to provide information about how it responded to a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation as a coroner’s inquest enters its second week.  The inquest is scheduled to hear information today about the Saskatchewan Health Authority and the province’s warrant suppression team. Myles Sanderson killed 11 people and injured 17 others on James Smith […]

In the middle of an Alberta mountain playground, adjacent to a popular ski resort, there’s a well sunk into the bedrock that has John Pomeroy worried. The Marmot Creek well in Kananaskis Country has been there for generations, says the University of Saskatchewan water scientist. It’s one of the few groundwater monitoring wells that Alberta […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Much of the U.S. remained gripped by deadly Arctic weather Sunday — with subfreezing conditions reaching as far south as Texas and Florida. But the numbing cold is expected to ease up in the coming days. Freezing rain, sleet and high wind gusts later Sunday would make traveling in parts of […]

Myles Sanderson had a list of grievances and was ready to kill anyone who got in his way, a coroner’s inquest into a Saskatchewan mass stabbing heard Friday. Experts testified there was likely a reason the killer chose each of his targets. “His mission was to attack, injure and murder those who he had a […]

Heavy snow earlier in the week is expected to turn into freezing rain today in parts of BC’s Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon. Environment Canada says the freezing rain could last into the afternoon and potentially later in some areas. Between 10 and 20 centimetres of snow is forecast on Vancouver Island, […]

Teachers, principals and other members of the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation are staging a one day walk out to push for a better deal with the provincial government. The two sides are far apart in talks, especially when it comes to class size and complexity. Teachers want to bargain this issues at the table, but the […]