federal politics
CP NewsAlert: Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu crosses floor to Liberals
Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu says she has left the Conservative caucus to join Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals, making her the fifth MP to cross the floor since November.More coming.
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Jacob Strizzi
Former Bronco commits to TMU
A former player for the Humboldt Broncos will be continuing his hockey career post Junior A.Forward Jacob Strizzi has committed to Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) to become a member of the Bold.Strizzi, a 21-year-old native of Toronto, came to the Broncos in the middle of the 2023/24 campaign after being acquired...
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Snowstorm
Alberta Clipper wreaks havoc as central, northern Sask. digs out after heavy snowfall
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Snow drifts, packed snow, and ice
Travel not recommended on many local highways
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CP NewsAlert: Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu crosses floor to Liberals
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Northeast News
Snowstorm
Alberta Clipper wreaks havoc as central, northern Sask. digs out after heavy snowfall
Another massive spring snowstorm has left a large part of the province under a significant blanket of snow. The Alberta Clipper that tracked through central and northern Saskatchewan on Tuesday caused travel headaches, closed highways, and led to drifting, heavy, and wet snow. Danielle Desjardins is a Warning Preparedn...
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Snow drifts, packed snow, and ice
Travel not recommended on many local highways
If you need to travel today, you may want to wait a while. Travel is still not recommended across northeast and central areas. The Highway Hotline is recommending against travel in areas like Melfort, Humboldt, Tisdale, Nipawin, and other areas across the northeast. According to Danielle Desjardins, a warning preparedn...
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Nasty weather
Alberta clipper packs wallop across central Sask.
Old Man Winter is going out with a bang.An estimated 15 to 20 cm. of snow was forecasted for the Prince Albert and Melfort areas on Tuesday, and 5 to 10 cm. for North Battleford, but for many residents who were having difficulty navigating roads and even finding their way to their front doors, it felt like a lot more.A...
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Heavy snow causing issues
Travel not recommended in Melfort area
The Alberta Clipper is causing travel headaches in the northeast. Travel is not recommended in the Melfort area due to heavy snow, poor visibility, slushy, drifting snow, and icy highway conditions. Highways south, west, and north of Melfort are especially hard hit, according to the Highway Hotline. The Environment and...
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Secure your property
Busier times ahead for RCMP after spring weather sticks around
Spring weather is taking its sweet time getting to northeast Saskatchewan, but the RCMP should be busier when it finally does arrive for good. Melfort RCMP S/Sgt. Ryan Case told northeastNOW the warmer weather usually leads to calls for service drastically increasing. He said it's important for residents to secure thei...
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Long-standing issues with current system
Melfort Council approves purchase of new fuel station at airport
City council in Melfort has approved the purchase of a new fuel management system for the airport. The city will spend $65,000 from General Capital Reserves to replace the current system that has been in place for over a decade. We reported a few days ago that the Department of Public Works would make the request to co...
Apr 07, 2026
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Saskatchewan
federal politics
CP NewsAlert: Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu crosses floor to Liberals
Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu says she has left the Conservative caucus to join Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals, making her the fifth MP to cross the floor since November.More coming.
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Peace in the middle east?
Carney, European leaders welcome reported Iran-U.S. ceasefire in joint statement
Prime Minister Mark Carney and nine European leaders issued a joint statement Wednesday saying they welcome the reported two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran.The deal was announced Tuesday evening after President Donald Trump threatened that "a whole civilization" would "die" if a d...
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court proceedings
Métis harvesting rights case in Meadow Lake adjourned to September
A Métis harvesting rights case in Meadow Lake that could influence similar matters across Saskatchewan has been adjourned to September, with no decision yet reached.The cases involving Warren Boyer, Oliver Poitras and Harold St. Pierre were adjourned to Sept. 14, 2026, in Meadow Lake Provincial Court. The three ...
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'whole civilization will die'
'War crimes': Iranian Canadians horrified by Trump's latest threat to destroy Iran
Foad Farhani was driving to work Tuesday morning when his wife called him in tears while reading U.S. President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social threatening the existence of their homeland. Trump wrote that a "whole civilization will die" if Iran does not agree to a deal that includes reopening the Strait ...
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Heavy snow causing issues
Travel not recommended in Melfort area
The Alberta Clipper is causing travel headaches in the northeast. Travel is not recommended in the Melfort area due to heavy snow, poor visibility, slushy, drifting snow, and icy highway conditions. Highways south, west, and north of Melfort are especially hard hit, according to the Highway Hotline. The Environment and...
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Winter continues
Snow forecasted for Prince Albert, Humboldt
In a flurry of rapidly changing forecasts for Saskatchewan on Monday, Environment Canada says a late season Alberta clipper is set to bring snowfall to the province's centre and Prince Albert.Weather statements said areas along and near the Yellowhead Highway have temperatures near the freezing mark, so it was hard to ...
Apr 07, 2026
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Local Sports
Jacob Strizzi
Former Bronco commits to TMU
A former player for the Humboldt Broncos will be continuing his hockey career post Junior A.Forward Jacob Strizzi has committed to Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) to become a member of the Bold.Strizzi, a 21-year-old native of Toronto, came to the Broncos in the middle of the 2023/24 campaign after being acquired...
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And then there were three
Ice Wolves McKinnon, Broncos Miller finalists for RBC Community Ambassador
What was once 12 players is now down to three, as the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League has announced its finalists for this year's RBC Community Ambassador award.One of Ryder McKinnon (La Ronge Ice Wolves), Callum Creig (Yorkton Terriers), and/or Connor Miller (Humboldt Broncos representative, but now plays for the Fl...
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Humboldt Broncos legacy
'The World Needs More Captains': Adam Herold's legacy lives on through foundation
Across the province and far beyond, people paused today to remember the players, coaches, and staff who never made it home when the Humboldt Broncos bus crash claimed 16 lives and left 13 others injured back in 2018.But in the eight years that have passed, remembrance hasn't been confined to a single day.Those lives ha...
Apr 07, 2026
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Future Stang
Mustangs commit Calgary forward
The Melfort Mustangs have committed a new player for the 2026/2027 SJHL season. Forward Nolan Van Waes is the newest member of the organization.Van Waes is an 18-year-old native of Calgary, Alta., spending his entire U15 and U18 career in his hometown. For the past three seasons, the 2008-born forward has been a part o...
Apr 06, 2026
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Hometown Kid
Broncos commit former Trojans goaltender
The Humboldt Broncos have committed a new player for the upcoming season. Humboldt native Wyatt Fleischacker will join the club for the 2026/27 campaign.Fleischacker, a netminder, has spent the past two seasons with the Tisdale U18 AAA Trojans in the SMAAAHL. In the 2024/25 season, the 18-year-old had a 2.69 goals-agai...
Apr 03, 2026
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Junior Hockey
OLCN Scouts play underdogs to win inaugural USPHL Premier Alberta Division title
The Onion Lake Cree Nation (OLCN) Scouts have written themselves into the history books. The Junior A hockey club claimed the first-ever Alberta Division title within the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL) Premier after downing the Calgary Bandits 6-3 in Game 3 of the best-of-three finals on Tuesday in Calgary...
Apr 01, 2026
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Northeast Profiles
It’s a Co-op Thing
Building, Feeding, Fuelling, Growing and Helping Keep Our Communities Safe
At Prairie North Co-op (PNC) we often say that we are proud to serve our members with products and services that help build, feed, fuel and grow the communities in which we live and do business. Now we can add "help keep our members and communities safe' through our commitment to a strong safety culture to that li...
Aug 26, 2025
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Guide dogs
CNIB in need of volunteers to foster future service dogs across Canada
It's a rewarding experience filled with unconditional love and the opportunity to change the life of someone who is blind. Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Guide Dogs is urgently looking for volunteers to raise future guide dogs for people who are blind, Deafblind, or have low vision."There's a hug...
Jul 23, 2025
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Innovation at Work
Prairie North Co-op Retrofit Serves Rural Members
At Prairie North Co-operative, the vision is to be the trusted first choice in the community. Sometimes achieving that vision requires thinking outside the box and taking an innovative approach to problem solving. In 2019, the Prairie North Co-op Agro Fuel team began to offer a number of bulk oil products to its rural ...
Jul 10, 2025
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farmnewsNOW
Cattle group rejects CFIA proposed changes to traceability regulations
Canadian Food Inspection Agency's proposed changes to livestock identifications and traceability regulations are not getting support from a national c...
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Bringing new Canadian-grown pulse-based foods to market
Protein Industries Canada announced a new project in partnership with AGT Foods and Sweet Nutrition, based in Saskatoon, Sask. The purpose is to creat...
Apr 02, 2026
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Phase two of construction set to begin at Agro-site development
Lake Country Co-op has announced that construction of Phase 2 for their Agro site development in the Rural Municipality of Prince Albert will begin th...
Apr 02, 2026
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Canada
Photo gallery: A decade of death - B.C. counts drug emergency's cost
Next week marks the 10th anniversary of the declaration of a public health emergency in response to British Columbia's drug overdose crisis, which has since claimed more than 18,000 lives. Grieving friends and families, former policy makers, medical wo...
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B.C. woman detained by ICE for three weeks in Texas calls experience 'traumatizing'
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS, UNITED STATES - The Canadian woman who spent three weeks detained by immigration officers in the United States along with her seven-year-old daughter says it was "the most stressful, traumatizing ordeal" she has ever been through. Ta...
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Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu says she's joining Carney's Liberal government
OTTAWA - Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu has left the Conservative caucus to join Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals, pushing them closer to a majority government. In a statement posted on social media Wednesday morning, Gladu said she has heard clearly f...
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Carney, European leaders welcome reported Iran-U.S. ceasefire in joint statement
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney and nine European leaders issued a joint statement on Wednesday, welcoming the reported two-week ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran. The deal was announced Tuesday evening after President Donald T...
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Poilievre's communications director Katy Merrifield resigns
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's communications director Katy Merrifield is resigning. Merrifield announced her departure in an email sent to the Conservative caucus Tuesday, adding her last day working in the Opposition Leader's Office ...
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In the news today: Iran ceasefire, Terrebonne byelection, Decade of B.C. drug crisis
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... US, Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire as Trump pulls back on his threats Iran, the United States and Israel reached a two-week ceasefire in the war that...
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World
California Supreme Court orders sheriff to pause investigation and preserve seized ballots
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a county sheriff who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge agains...
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Long Island architect Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to murdering 7 women and admits he killed another
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - A Long Island architect who led a secret life as a serial killer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings. ...
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Fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman tells AP he was 'blindsided' by his ouster
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman told The Associated Press on Wednesday in his first interview since the ouster that he was "blindsided" by the move but has no hard feelings and is unlikely to sue. ...
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More than 100 killed as Israel strikes central Beirut after saying Iran truce doesn't apply there
BEIRUT (AP) - Israeli strikes hit several commercial and residential areas in central Beirut without warning on Wednesday, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Lebanon said at least 112 people were killed and hundred...
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Democratic-backed Chris Taylor wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, growing liberal majority
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, growing the liberal majority on the court as cases affecting congressional redistricting, union rights and other hot button issues awa...
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North Korea fires missiles toward sea after ridiculing South's hopes for better ties
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea Wednesday in its second launch event in two days, South Korea's military said, hours after a senior North Korean official released crude insults against ...
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