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James Murdock won in a landslide on Wednesday night to become Moose Jaw’s 42nd mayor. 

Murdock took home 63.7 per cent of the vote with 5,437 votes. The next closest contender with Crystal Froese with 1,439 votes, a difference of 3,998 votes. 

Speaking after the election, Murdock said it was truly an honour to be elected the mayor of Moose Jaw. 

Swift Current, SK – For the second straight night, the Moose Jaw Warriors and Swift Current Broncos went into extra time and Swift Current came out with two points.

The Warriors scored twice in the third to force overtime against the Broncos, but Luke Mistelbacher scored in the extra frame to beat Moose Jaw 5-4 on Wednesday night at the InnovationPlex.

“Those are two games where we probably deserved a bit of a better fate,” Warriors assistant coach Curtis Pereverzoff said.

For the second straight night, the Moose Jaw Warriors and Swift Current Broncos went into extra time and Swift Current came out with two points. The Warriors scored twice in the third to force overtime against the Broncos, but Luke Mistelbacher scored in the extra frame to beat Moose Jaw 5-4 on last night at the InnovationPlex.

"It's a tough way to lose 2 games like that, but i think for Our group we could take a lot of positives from that, and that's something that we'll look forward to," said Assistant Coach, Curtis Pereverzoff in a post game interview with James Gallo.

President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts are predicting.

The threat of the tariff is causing a lot of concern north of the border, where the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said such a tariff could take a $30-billion bite out of the Canadian economy.

A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged."

The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says Indigenous children across the country were forcibly removed from their homes and taken "to live with strangers — sometimes hundreds of kilometres from their families and Indigenous communities."

Moose Jaw’s election season has come to a close, the ballots have been cast and now Moose Javians welcome not only a new mayor and city council, but also school board trustees for the Holy Trinity Catholic School Division. 

A total of four seats were up for grabs in this year's election and the winners are as follows:

Christine Boyczuk with 592 votes

Derek Hassen with 559 votes

Joann Blazieko with 547 votes 

Alison Bradish with 525 votes

Moose Jaw’s election season has come to a close, the ballots have been cast and now Moose Javians welcome not only a new mayor and city council, but also school board trustees for the Prairie South School Division.

The winners of the seats in Subdivision 6 are as follows:

Mary Jukes with 2,119 votes

Patrick Boyle with 2,105 votes

Brett Hagan with 2,061 votes 

Lew Young with 1,925 votes 

Tenielle McLeod with 1,706 votes

Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu.

The agency said in a statement Wednesday that testing at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirms the teen did contract the H5N1 avian flu, the same strain related to viruses found in B.C. flocks in an ongoing outbreak at poultry farms.

It is with sadness the family of Irene Joan Gaudaur of Moose Jaw passed away at the age of 94. Irene grew up during WWII, in England and was an evacuee of the war.

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