Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

NDP Calling for a Circuit Breaker – a Three Week Lockdown
The Saskatchewan NDP is calling for a three week “circuit breaker” saying the measures taken by the government to curb COVID-19 are too little, too late. A circuit breaker is a temporary l...
Vanese M. Ferguson Nov 18, 2020

SEIU-West Wants to see More COVID-Related Restrictions from the Government
SEIU-West says it welcomes the new COVID-19 measures announced by the provincial government, but is concerned that they don’t do enough to relieve additional burdens that health sector workers h...
Gord Wiebe Nov 18, 2020

Saskatoon Police Arrest a Group of Suspects in Armed Robbery Investigation
Four people are in custody, after an armed robbery in Saskatoon. Around 5:40 Wednesday morning, police were dispatched to an armed robbery at a convenience store in the 200 block of Pendygrasse Road. ...
Gord Wiebe Nov 18, 2020

Affordable Housing in Saskatoon is Scarce
Saskatoon lacks good quality affordable rental housing and since February there was a 40 per cent decline in the listings for three-bedroom rental units over four months. That’s according to the...
Carol Thomson Nov 18, 2020

Sask. Polytechnic Joins National Supercluster
Saskatchewan Polytechnic has joined a network of industrial companies, start-ups, researchers and government-funded labs to promote collaboration and training to unlock new opportunities. Together, th...
Gord Wiebe Nov 18, 2020

The Public Will Choose the Hackathon Winner
It's down to the public to determine a winner in the first-ever virtual hackathon put on by the University of Saskatchewan. EcoHack was an immersive, multi-day event in which 14 students collaborated ...
Gord Wiebe Nov 18, 2020

Saskatoon Man Charged with Evade Police
A Saskatoon man is facing a number of charges after refusing to stop for Police Tuesday night. Shortly after nine o’clock, officers saw a suspicious, vehicle at 21st Street and Avenue S. The dri...
Gord Wiebe Nov 18, 2020

Inflation Moves Up Marginally
The Consumer Price Index was up 0.7 per cent in Canada in October compared to a year ago. Statistics Canada says, if you take gasoline out of the equation, the CPI rose one per cent. That's because of...
Gord Wiebe Nov 18, 2020

Where Saskatoon Ranks on the Tech Talent Spectrum
When it comes to scoring tech talent in Canada, Saskatoon does not do particularly well. CBRE Research has taken a look at the top 20 cities in the country, ranking them on competitive advantage as we...
Gord Wiebe Nov 18, 2020

A Group of Indigenous Communities Wants in on the XL Pipeline Deal
TC Energy Corporation has signed an agreement with Natural Law Energy allowing NLE to make an equity investment of up to $1 billion in the Keystone XL Pipeline project. NLE is an alliance of Indigenou...
Gord Wiebe Nov 18, 2020















