Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Vigil to remember Canadians killed when their plane was shot down in Iran
It was three years ago today (Sunday) that Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down after taking off from Tehran, Iran, by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. Fifty-five Canadian citizen...
Newsroom Jan 07, 2023

Tracing Saskatoon’s Metis history
The goal of a Mtis history in Saskatoon research project is to have some information available to the public and possibly education for school divisions to access. USask assistant professor, Dr. Chery...
Carol Thomson Jan 07, 2023

Federal government advises caution for travellers to Mexico
The federal government has issued an advisory for Canadian travellers in Mexico to exercise a high degree of caution due to high levels of criminal activity and kidnapping. The advisory was posted on ...
Carol Thomson Jan 06, 2023

VIDO’s economic impact over $500 million
In the past decade, the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization on the USask campus has had an economic impact on the province of $511 million. That’s from a Saskatoon Regional Economic Deve...
Carol Thomson Jan 06, 2023

Ten COVID-related deaths, three flu deaths, RSV hospitalizations mostly children
The provincial government’s latest report on respiratory illnesses which covers the last two weeks of December, indicates that ten people died who tested positive for COVID-19. One was in the 20...
Carol Thomson Jan 06, 2023

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property, vehicles, cash seized from drug trafficking/money laundering investigation
A fifteen-month investigation into what the Saskatoon Police Service describes as the drug trafficking and money laundering activities of a sophisticated organized crime operation, has resulted in thr...
Carol Thomson Jan 06, 2023

Teamwork leads to successful rescue
An RCMP story about a challenging rescue in the winter, in the northern wilderness has a happy ending. Around 9:30 p.m. on November 14th, Patuanak RCMP received a missing persons report about a man wh...
Carol Thomson Jan 06, 2023

ICE Unit makes arrest in Saskatoon
The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit has charged a Saskatoon man with luring, sexual assault, sexual interference, and child pornography offences. The investigation began December 2...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jan 06, 2023

Random attacks injure five in Calgary
The Calgary Police Service says while investigating a possible hit and run, on Wednesday in downtown, their officers discovered a man who was allegedly randomly attacking people. Twenty-nine-year-old ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jan 06, 2023

Saskatchewan and Canada continue to add to the employment rolls
The latest Statistics Canada numbers released Friday show the Canadian economy added 104,000 jobs in December as the unemployment rate fell slightly to 5.0 per cent. This is the third decline in the u...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jan 06, 2023
















