Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

House Prices Rise in Saskatoon
The Canadian Real Estate Association says, year over year price gains in November were in the five to 10 per cent range in several centres across Canada including Saskatoon and Regina. National home s...
Gord Wiebe Dec 16, 2020

Saskatoon Fire Department At Odds With Provincial Government Over Fire and Building Codes in Some Saskatoon Buildings
The latest Provincial Health Orders, when it comes to national fire codes and occupant loads, isn’t applicable to all buildings in Saskatoon…according to the Saskatoon Fire Department. The...
Les Lazaruk Dec 15, 2020

Saskatchewan’s First COVID-19 Vaccinations
The first step of the phased approach to delivering COVID-19 vaccines to people starts Tuesday evening in Saskatchewan. The first 1,950 doses arrived Tuesday with health care workers at the Regina Gen...
CJWW News Dec 15, 2020

Hundreds of Thousands of More COVID Vaccines Coming
Canada is set to receive the first doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the month, pending Health Canada approval. Speaking in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also says anothe...
Saskatoon Media Group Dec 15, 2020

Cheer Crate Campaign to Help Those in Need
Hundreds of families will be provided with food, activities, and personal care items through the latest delivery of the Saskatoon Public Schools Foundation's Cheer Crate initiative. Executive Director...
Gord Wiebe Dec 15, 2020

Federal Government Continues Support For Saskatoon Tech Start-ups
The success of a Saskatoon technology incubator means more funding from Western Economic Diversification Canada. Executive Director of Co.labs, Jordan Dutchak, says the federal government’s orig...
Carol Thomson Dec 15, 2020

Manufacturing Sales Rise in the Province
Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales in Canada fell 0.3 per cent in October. Saskatchewan saw a rise of about six per cent. It was third highest of the provinces on the positive side of the ledg...
Gord Wiebe Dec 15, 2020

Saskatoon Company Nearing Completion of Plant-Based COVID Vaccine
A plant-based COVID-19 vaccine could become a reality next year. The CEO of Saskatoon-based ZYUS Life Sciences, Brent Zettl, says through their partnership with VIDO-Intervac on the University of Sask...
Carol Thomson Dec 15, 2020

In Saskatoon, the Curve isn’t Flat but it’s Bending
COVID-19 cases in Saskatoon are beginning to flatten out, but work needs to be done to see those numbers come down. That from Saskatoon Medical Health Officer Dr. Jasmine Hasselback who says last week...
Saskatoon Media Group Dec 15, 2020

Alberta Headed for Have-Not Status?
The Fraser Institute says the fiscal capacity gap between the have and the have-not provinces is shrinking but it’s not because the have-nots are growing economically; it’s because the hav...
Gord Wiebe Dec 15, 2020


















