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The provincial government is looking for people to volunteer at the Saskatchewan Pavilion during the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. "The call is for current Saskatchewan residents who will be visiting Vancouver between Feb. 12 and 28, 2010, and for...

November is the start of slipping on winter boots, scraping off windshields and walking across . . . green grass? This month is almost near its end and Saskatoon still has not seen any glistening white snowflakes. Until the end...

How do you turn $84,000 in heirloom jewelry into $2,500 in cold hard cash?...He might tell you all it takes is a trusting homeowner, sticky fingers and a dash of drug-driven desperation. In September 2007 Osesky was working as a...

The TTC will look at installing suicide prevention barriers on its subway platforms when it becomes technologically feasible -- likely beginning in 2015-2016, TTC chairman Adam Giambrone says. In response to a Sun Media Freedom of Information request, the TTC...

Geneva, scientists accelerate particle beams through a 27-km-long tunnel and smash them into each other. Last week, in a dead-of-night experiment, the operators of the $10 billion atom smasher buried underground just west of here, got it up and running...

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Canada Post has delivered a forthright apology and a compensation cheque to an Ottawa book collector one year after it lost his prized volume of 18th-century poetry. Daniel Bentley, a psychologist with the Public Service Commission, had been in search...

Our brains can be fooled into perceiving one speech sound as a completely different one if the sound is accompanied by an inaudible puff of air, Canadian researchers have found. The research published this week in Nature suggests that our...

The Game , an Ubisoft title based on the moviemaker’s highly hyped 3D film set for release on December 18th. We’ll be posting a review of the game early next week, but before we do there’s one aspect that deserves...

The much-discussed $58-million destination centre at River Landing will face its first formal political hurdle Monday when city council will be asked to approve the framework for what will be included in the 85,000-square-foot building. The centre is slated to...