Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Busy Weekend for Prince Albert Police
Prince Albert Police responded to 184 calls for service on the weekend. One was a weapons complaint on the 1700 Block of 12th Avenue West around 10:20 Saturday night. A 23-year-old man was taken to ho...
Gord Wiebe Feb 02, 2021

WW II Vet Celebrating 100 Years
If you’re from the Carrot River area you might want to stop down today to wish Mr. Kenneth Alfred Sauder a happy birthday. Alf has been in hospital, not with COVID-19, and they are looking to di...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 02, 2021

SOAR Grants Awarded to Indigenous Entrepreneurs
Six Indigenous-owned businesses have been awarded SREDA SOAR grants. The virtual event was held Friday by the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority in partnership with the Greater Saskatoo...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 01, 2021

WHO Says Proven Public Health Measures Are Making a Difference
The Director General of the World Health Organization says recent global COVID-19 numbers shows that the virus can be controlled, even with new variants in circulation, by using the same proven public...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 01, 2021

A Challenging Year for School Counsellors
COVID-19 has posed added challenges for students and for the school counsellors who support them. Doctor Janice Graham-Migel, is President of the School Councillors Chapter of the Canadian Counselling...
Gord Wiebe Feb 01, 2021

Time to Rethink Funding for Indigenous Communities
Indigenous spending is now the federal government’s second largest operational program expense, behind only national defense. In a report written for the Fraser Institute, Tom Flanagan of the Sc...
Gord Wiebe Feb 01, 2021

Road Notes
Cumberland Avenue South is closed between 11th and 12th streets for emergency sewer connection replacement work. Detours are in place. This project is expected to take two days to complete, weather pe...
Gord Wiebe Feb 01, 2021

COVID at Food Bank and Several Schools
The Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre says they have to temporarily pause emergency food hamper service after the Saskatchewan Health Authority declared an outbreak at the food bank. Three of th...
Gord Wiebe Feb 01, 2021

The Importance of Indigenous Stories
A local author, storyteller and faculty member in Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, believes stories can be healing. That’s why Randy Morin wants to see the Aboriginal tradit...
Carol Thomson Feb 01, 2021

Cameco Raises its Interest in Global Laser Enrichment
Cameco has marked the successful closure of a binding Membership Interest Purchase Agreement between Cameco, Silex Systems Limited and GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy, completing the ownership restructuring...
Gord Wiebe Feb 01, 2021
















