Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

CUPE Upset About Education Workers Left Out of Latest Vaccination Plans
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says its front line education support workers have been left out of the government’s latest announcement regarding plans to add additional health workers t...
Gord Wiebe Feb 18, 2021

Nearly Half of Canadians Would Like an End to the Role of Governor General
It would be fair to say that Canadians are becoming disenchanted with the Governor General position. The Angus Reid Institute says, Julie Payette’s unprecedented resignation, under a cloud from ...
Gord Wiebe Feb 18, 2021

Federal Gun Legislation Doesn’t Mean Municipalities Can Ban Handguns
Legislation passed by the provincial government in the last session prohibiting Saskatchewan municipalities from making a ban on handguns means federal gun legislation introduced this week by the Trud...
Newsroom Feb 18, 2021

The Hospital Home Lottery is Sold Out
Saskatoon City Hospital, Royal University, and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundations say all 60,000 tickets in the Hospital Home Lottery have been sold! The draw for the $2.5 Million Designer Grand Pr...
Gord Wiebe Feb 18, 2021

Road Notes
The City says Ruth Street will be closed between Clarence and York avenues starting at 7:00 a.m. Thursday for water main repairs. Detours will be in place. The project is expected to take two days to ...
Gord Wiebe Feb 18, 2021

Single-Event Sports Betting Legislation Making its Way Through Parliament
Both the official opposition and the federal Liberal party have introduced Bills that would legalize single-event sports betting in Canada. A news release from Saskatoon M.P. Kevin Waugh says the Cons...
Carol Thomson Feb 18, 2021

MVA Says New Parking Spaces are Coming
Work is set to begin in a couple of weeks that will see a few more parking spaces and a drop-off zone at the parking lot area between the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan site, the Prairie Lily and Nut...
Carol Thomson Feb 18, 2021

Alberta Pastor in Jail
The pastor of GraceLife Church in Parkland County, Alberta is behind bars after allegedly not complying with release conditions from an earlier arrest and after RCMP determined that his church was, ag...
Gord Wiebe Feb 18, 2021

Numerous Drugs And Firearm-Related Charges
An 18 year old man is facing multiple charges including trafficking cocaine, possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of illicit cannabis, possession of cannabis for the purpos...
Carol Thomson Feb 17, 2021

Update: Cudworth Girl Found Safe
Update: Wakaw RCMP are reporting 14 year-old Gabriel Ferland has been located safe. A 14 year old girl from Cudworth was reported missing on Tuesday, having last been seen at 8 in the morning, so the ...
Carol Thomson Feb 17, 2021
















