Author Archives: Syndicated Content

The Travel Numbers for March Are Out
Not surprisingly, International travel numbers, to and from Canada show travel coming to a standstill by the end of March. Statistics Canada says the effect of government-imposed travel restrictions a...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

Retail Sales Fell in March But We Did Better than Most
Statistics Canada says retail sales in Saskatchewan fell 1.5 per cent February to March. We fared well compared to the rest of the country. Nationally, sales were down 10 per cent. Even year-to-year, ...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

Three Fires Overnight
Saskatoon Fire Department crews had to deal with three fires in the space of about one hour Thursday night. The first was a garage fire about 9:40 at a boarded-up home on the 100 block of Avenue K Sou...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

Reports Released on Use of Force and Police Pursuits
The Saskatoon Police Service made 13,713 arrests in 2019, with only 271 incidents of use of force. Inspector Cam Drever says that works out to 1.97 per cent of the time that force was needed. A use of...
Carol Thomson May 22, 2020

Road Notes
The intersection of Central Avenue and 105th Street closes at 8:00 am Friday to replace a catch basin. The city says the work is expected to take a day to complete. That’s if everything goes as ...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

Onion Lake RCMP Looking for Help Locating Man With Multiple Arrest Warrants
Public assistance is being sought by Onion Lake R-C-M-P in order to locate Robert Lee Plourde-Dillon (pictured). The 24-year-old has several outstanding warrants for his arrest on charges ranging from...
Les Lazaruk May 21, 2020

Return of U-F-C to Saskatoon Cancelled
The first U-F-C-promoted event to be held in Canada in 2020 has been cancelled. That also means Saskatoon will have to wait for its second U-F-C event to return to SaskTel Centre. The U-F-C Saskatoon ...
Les Lazaruk May 21, 2020

Date Has Been Set for Phase 3 of Reopen Saskatchewan
Aim for June 8th. The Province of Saskatchewan has set that as the date for Phase 3 of the Re-Open Saskatchewan Plan. Phase two of the plan began this week. In Phase 3 restaurants and licensed establi...
Vanese M. Ferguson May 21, 2020

Testing is Key to Fighting a Second Wave of COVID-19
The Chief Medical Health Officer of Canada says it is time to address quarantine fatigue. Theresa Tam says many Canadians are feeling trepidation, wondering if the time is right for reopening the econ...
Vanese M. Ferguson May 21, 2020

Recoveries Outnumber New Cases of Covid-19
After a double digit increase Wednesday, Saskatchewan saw just two new cases of COVID-19 Thursday bringing the provincial total to 622. Both those new cases are in the far north. Eighty-eight per cent...
Vanese M. Ferguson May 21, 2020















