Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

The Province has been Engaging in Intersection Improvements
The province says that it has completed $40 million in highway safety improvements all over the province since 2019. This marks year two of a five-year $100 million strategy to improve safety at inter...
Gord Wiebe Feb 05, 2021

Extreme Cold Will Stick Around For Awhile
An Environment Canada meteorologist says, like an unwelcome guest, the extreme cold weather is going to make itself at home across much of Western Canada. Terri Lang says a big ridge of Arctic high pr...
Carol Thomson Feb 05, 2021

Red Flags Over Alberta Opening the Way for Polluting North and South Saskatchewan Rivers
The official opposition is raising concerns about Saskatchewan’s agriculture and drinking water supplies being polluted because of a decision last year by the Alberta government of Jason Kenney....
Gord Wiebe Feb 05, 2021

New Judge for Prince Albert
The province has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Lubyk as a judge to the Provincial Court in Prince Albert. Lubyk received his law degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1998. He began his...
Gord Wiebe Feb 05, 2021

Body Worn Cameras for RCMP Estimated to cost $131 million
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer has released a report which estimates it will cost $131 million dollars over five years to purchase Body Worn Cameras for the RCMP’s 700 detachments. ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 05, 2021

Prince Albert Pulp Mill Preparing to Restart
Getting the Prince Albert Pulp Mill up and running again is the focus of $600 thousand worth of engineering and consulting work being paid for by Paper Excellence Canada. Paper Excellence purchased th...
Gord Wiebe Feb 05, 2021

Outreach Window at Library Serves People in Need
An outreach services support walk-up window has been created at the Saskatoon Public Library to provide help from registered social workers in a physically distanced way. SPL’s Senior Manager of...
Brad Jennings Feb 05, 2021

USask Researchers to Start Tracking for Hate Speech Online
If you are concerned about being tracked by people you don’t know, you’re not going to like this: Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are going to be gathering about 80 million t...
Gord Wiebe Feb 05, 2021

Employment Held Steady in Saskatchewan Last Month
Statistics Canada says that employment fell in January to its lowest level since August. Employment fell by 213,000. Losses were entirely in part-time work and were concentrated in the Quebec and Onta...
Gord Wiebe Feb 05, 2021

Saskatchewan Company Receives Broadband Funding from CRTC
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission has announced that five transport projects will receive up to $26.7 million in funding from the Broadband Fund. Over 550 km of fibre tran...
Gord Wiebe Feb 05, 2021
















