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Some staff not trained enough to help suicidal patients: Saskatchewan auditor
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Health Authority isn't giving enough training to staff working with patients in areas struggling with high suicide rates, the provincial auditor said in her latest ...
Dec 07, 2019
Canada's Boutin wins gold in short track 500 metre race at World Cup
SHANGHAI - Kim Boutin remained undefeated in the 500 metres this season on Saturday by winning her fourth World Cup gold medal in the distance. Courtney Sarault also reached the podium for C...
Dec 07, 2019
Canadian Kingsbury takes gold medal in 100th career moguls World Cup start
RUKA, Finland - Canada's Mikael Kingsbury won the gold medal Saturday in his 100th career World Cup moguls start. The defending Olympic champion from Deux-Montagnes, Que., scored 90.80 on his second r...
Dec 07, 2019
Eight bantam Sutter Fund Chiefs to play at 2020 Alberta Games
The bantam elite Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs will be well represented at the upcoming Alberta Winter Games in Airdrie.All but one member of the team tried out last weekend in Innisfail for their zone ...
Dec 07, 2019
Canadian Jessie Fleming hopes to cap UCLA soccer career with NCAA title
After 74 games in UCLA colours, Canadian international Jessie Fleming's collegiate soccer career will end at the College Cup in San Jose, Calif. Fleming's seventh-ranked Bruins (18-4-1) meet ...
Dec 07, 2019
Newcomers to Red Deer invited to "Learn to Skate" in January
There are few things more Canadian than skating on a frozen sheet of water, laughing with friends, playing a game of shinny, and warming up with a mug of hot chocolate. That experience is worth sharin...
Dec 07, 2019 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Biden's campaign for U.S. president uses Trudeau in anti-Trump ad
OTTAWA - A video of Justin Trudeau gossiping with other world leaders about Donald Trump is featuring in an advertisement for the U.S. president's leading political rival. "The world is laughing at Pr...
Dec 07, 2019
Mic'd up four-year-old hockey player near top of YouTube's 2019 trending list
Celine Dion? Kim Kardashian-West? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? They've got nothing on a four-year-old named Mason. Jeremy Rupke runs a YouTube channel called Coach Jeremy that features videos on hoc...
Dec 07, 2019
Supreme Court won't hear appeal from former Nazi death squad member
Jewish groups across the country hailed the Supreme Court's decision not to allow an elderly man who lied about his time working for a Nazi death squad to continue his fight to retain Canadian&nb...
Dec 07, 2019
'Kids will fall through the cracks:' Advocates critical of child-welfare changes
WINNIPEG - Advocates for children and First Nations say the federal government hasn't provided funding for or details about extensive child-welfare changes coming next month and they su...
Dec 07, 2019