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A security camera has captured the more than seven hours a Regina man lay outside, waving for help from passing vehicles, before his death in freezing temperatures after he stumbled from a city bus. 

"Why are we turning a blind eye to help people?” said Jeff Holt, whose courier business Flatlander Express caught it on its security video. 

“It takes 30 seconds out of your life to save a life and all these people that went by didn't do anything to help him out."

Melanie Patton says the loss of her only son, a Saskatchewan Mountie who was run over and killed more than two years ago, has left a void that can’t be filled. 

She told a sentencing hearing Thursday that she has lost all joy.

"Nothing is the same. Our family has fallen apart," the mother told the judge in her victim impact statement. 

“Gatherings are small and quiet, and I dread the holidays.”

Ed Broadbent, the affable advocate of social democracy whose principled leadership helped build the modern New Democratic Party and made him a titan of 20th century Canadian politics, has died. He was 87.

Broadbent was "a fierce champion for ordinary Canadians," said a statement Thursday from the eponymous, Ottawa-based think tank he founded in 2011 to propagate his belief in social and economic justice. 

A sentencing hearing begins today for a man who ran over and killed an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan.

Alphonse Stanley Traverse pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the death of Const. Shelby Patton.

He also pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a motor vehicle.

Patton, who was 26, had pulled over a suspected stolen truck in the town of Wolseley, east of Regina, in 2021.

Court heard the officer asked Traverse to step out of the truck and, when Traverse started the vehicle to drive off, Patton stepped on the running board and reached for the keys.

In an attempt to keep teenagers safer while online, Meta announced this week that it will be further restricting content for teens that include suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders. 

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, shared in a blog post that content about these topics will be hidden from teenagers even in family or friend posts. 

A new Statistics Canada study confirms that financial limitations are keeping people without private or employer-sponsored drug coverage from following through with their prescriptions.

It's true for both those who have no coverage at all and people who have some coverage through provincial or existing federal prescription programs.

The results of the study come as the New Democrats and the government negotiate the broad principles that will shape a federal pharmacare program.

A bus carrying a Western Hockey League junior team has slid off a highway in British Columbia's Interior, but the team says no one was injured.

A social media post from the Seattle Thunderbirds says the team bus slid into a ditch while on its way to Kelowna for a game.

Another post from the Kelowna Rockets, who were slated to play the Thunderbirds later today, says the Okanagan team sent its bus to transport their stranded opponents late Tuesday.

NASA says it will be delaying the Artemis II moon mission that includes Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, initially scheduled for November of this year.

The U.S. space agency provided an update today on the timeline for the upcoming mission around the moon and said it will be pushed back to September 2025 due to a number of technical issues and to allow more preparation time.

While we haven’t seen a lot of snow in many areas of the province since winter began, snowfalls are becoming commonplace on Saskatchewan highways.  

With snowfall comes snowplows on the roads, and David Horth director of communications with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways, has some tips on keeping safe around snowplows. 

The Manitoba government is promising $12 million to improve a highway intersection where a crash last year killed 17 people.

The government has released an outside review of the intersection of Highways 1 and 5, where a semi-trailer collided with a minibus carrying a group of seniors to a casino.

The report says one safety risk at the intersection is a narrow median, which can be tricky for vehicles making left turns or going straight through.