Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Is it Time to Decriminalize All Illegal Drugs?
As COVID-19 consumes so much of our attention, the Angus Reid Institute has been considering what it calls, Canada’s other epidemic: Drug addiction, in particular, opioid dependence. The polling...
Gord Wiebe Feb 24, 2021

Update from Ottawa on Vaccine Rollout
Federal officials say more COVID vaccines continue arriving and are being distributed in Canada. Procurement minister Anita Anand pointed out 643,000 doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines had already b...
Newsroom Feb 24, 2021

Almost a Thousand Tickets Issued at Intersections in January
SGI says of the 992 infractions, 446 were for disobeying a stop sign, while 165 were for not stopping at a red light and another 125 tickets were issued for U-turns at a traffic light. Spokesperson Ty...
Newsroom Feb 24, 2021

Woman Charged in Child Porn Case
The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit has charged a Saskatoon woman in a child pornography case. It’s in relation to an investigation that began last December into online accessing o...
Gord Wiebe Feb 24, 2021

Sentencing Delayed in Criminal Case Involving Manitoba Man and Rideau Hall
A Bowsman, Manitoba man accused of ramming through a gate at Rideau Hall while heavily armed, will wait a few more weeks before receiving his sentence. Correy Hurren appeared in Ottawa Tuesday afterno...
Newsroom Feb 24, 2021

Thousands of Tickets Issued by Combined Traffic Services in the City
Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan issued over 3800 summary offense tickets within Saskatoon last year. The CTSS patrols provincial highways and within the city, as a partnership between the Saska...
Brad Jennings Feb 24, 2021

The Prime Minister and the American President Raise Several Issues During First Meeting
The Prime Minister and the President of the United States have held their first bilateral meeting since Joe Biden took office in Washington. In a release from the Prime Minister’s Office, the tw...
Gord Wiebe Feb 24, 2021

Taser Used Without Effect Before Man Charged Following Disturbance in Saskatoon
A 33-year-old Saskatoon man faces charges of identity fraud plus willfully resisting and obstructing a police officer in relation to a disturbance Monday morning. Saskatoon Police were called to the 4...
Les Lazaruk Feb 23, 2021

Bishop Klein School Students Have Classes Cancelled Again for Wednesday
It’s not a COVID-19 issue and not totally a weather-related problem…but students at Bishop Klein School have had their classes for Wednesday cancelled because of several recent watermain b...
Les Lazaruk Feb 23, 2021

Provincial Government Pledges $15-Million For VIDO’s Centre For Pandemic Research
The provincial government has announced $15-million to help fund VIDO’s Centre for Pandemic Research on the University of Saskatchewan campus, contingent on the federal government adding $45-mil...
Carol Thomson Feb 23, 2021
















