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The Correctional Service of Canada says an inmate has escaped the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert. It says during the 9:30 p.m. count on New Year’s Eve, staff members discovered Glen Fredrick Richard Halkett was missing. The service contacted the RCMP’s Prince Albert detachment, and a warrant for the 29-year-old’s arrest has been issued. Halkett is described […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A driver behind the wheel of a pickup truck rammed into a crowd of New Orleans revelers on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day, killing at least 10 people in what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism. After the vehicle stopped, the driver emerged from the truck and […]

Strong winds and almost freezing temperatures didn’t deter hundreds of brave souls from jumping into Lake Ontario in a New Year’s Day tradition.  Some 750 people took part in the Courage Polar Bear Dip in Oakville., Ont., just west of Toronto on Wednesday.  Aiden Peel, who travelled more than 100 kilometres from Innisfil, Ont., to […]

Happy Birthday, Celsius! Environment Canada’s use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025.  It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began. The result is seen and felt every day. Canadians wear clothes measured in inches and buy gas by the litre. They drink from […]

Two 15 year olds have been charged with second degree murder, after a man was stabbed and killed on Boxing Day in Regina. On December 26th, police were called to 8th and Retallack after a reports of an injured man in that area. When police arrived, they found a victim with multiple stab wounds. He […]

Jimmy Carter, the self-effacing peanut farmer, humanitarian and former navy lieutenant who helped Canada avert a nuclear catastrophe before ascending to the highest political office in the United States, died Sunday at his home in Georgia. He was 100, making him the longest-lived U.S. president in American history. Concern for Carter’s health had become a recurring […]

A man has died following a serious incident Thursday evening in Regina. Police were called to 8th Avenue and Retallack Street at around 5:50 p.m. and found the man with life-threatening injuries. Despite efforts from officers and EMS, the victim succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead. The death is being investigated as a […]

Conservative MP Jonathan Williamson says he’ll get the ball rolling early in the New Year on no-confidence vote that could bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in a little more than a month. Williamson says in a social media post he will put forward his non-confidence motion at a public accounts committee meeting on […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is eager to show that her government can finally put the pieces of a dismantled provincial health-care system back together again in the new year. In a recent year-end interview, Smith said work that began in 2023 to create four new organizations in place of one health authority is almost complete, […]

Immigration measures announced as part of Canada’s border response to president-elect Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariff threat are starting to be implemented, beginning with a ban on what’s known as “flagpoling.” This is when someone who was in Canada on a temporary visa leaves for the U.S. then quickly re-enters Canada to access immigration […]