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 Is there any weight to the claims various municipalities alongside the City of North Battleford have made against the Crime Severity Index (CSI)? Tarah Hodgkinson, an assistant professor of criminology at Wilfried Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont. — who ran the City of North Battleford’s original public safety survey — thinks so, to a degree. […]

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 been sentenced to more than four years in prison in the United States. Benjamin Martin Moore was sentenced last Friday to a 52-month term in South Dakota Court after previously […]

A First Nations chief in Saskatchewan says his community needs a seat at the table after a probe into the release of a mass killer failed to include members’ input.   A joint investigation by the Correctional Service of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada into the statutory release of Myles Sanderson was made public Tuesday.  […]

A 35-year-old from Melfort has been charged with second-degree murder after a report of a disturbance at a business in the community earlier this week. On March 10, at 4:45 a.m., Melfort RCMP received a report of a disturbance at a business. Officers immediately responded, and an investigation determined that an altercation had occurred between […]

Ottawa police say four children and two adults are dead and a seventh person is injured after what the police chief is describing as an attack by a “lone actor” in an Ottawa suburb Wednesday night. Police chief Eric Stubbs told CBC News in an interview that it was a “mass shooting,” but an Ottawa […]

A 23 year old is facing numerous charges, after police arrested a suspect at a “break in” at a construction company’s compound. Late Friday night, Regina Police were called out to the 19-hundred block of Retallack Street by a security monitoring company. Someone was seen going into the construction compound, grab a bundle of wire […]

LONDON, Ontario (AP) — Authorities scheduled a news conference for Monday to discuss a 2018 case that has led to sexual assault charges against four current NHL players and a former NHL player, all of whom were on Canada’s world junior hockey team that year. Five players from that team have been charged with sexual assault: Carter Hart […]

Saskatchewan’s police watchdog is investigating after a Saskatoon police officer allegedly shot and injured a 34-year-old man. Saskatoon police say the incident occurred while tactical officers were involved in a search warrant at a home as part of an aggravated assault and gun investigation around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. The force says officers found a body […]

The southwestern Ontario city of London will be under a spotlight Monday as a high-profile, multi-year probe into allegations of sexual assault involving players from Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team makes its way to court. Five players — Dillon Dube, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod — were charged late last […]

SGI has released statistics from their December campaign against impaired driving. Of the 545 drivers found to have some sort of impairment, 183 ended up being charged with criminal code offences, and 362 people were given administrative suspensions. Administrative suspensions are issued when someone is caught driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) between .04 […]