Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Poster Campaign Targets Fraud Schemes
The Saskatoon Police Service is ramping up its efforts to increase awareness around fraud schemes. Police say crypto-currency known as Bitcoin is often requested by fraudsters and scammers as a form o...
Vanese M. Ferguson Oct 28, 2020

CFIB Will be Monitoring Scott Moe for Performance on Promises
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is looking forward to some of the campaign promises from the Saskatchewan Party coming to fruition. CFIB’s vice-president of Western Canada & ...
Carol Thomson Oct 28, 2020

Bank of Canada Forecasts Economic Growth Next year
The Bank of Canada is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of percent, with the Bank Rate at percent and the deposit rate at percent. Overall, global GDP is proje...
Gord Wiebe Oct 28, 2020

Advance Civic Election Polls Open in Prince Albert
Prince Albert's first of six Advance Polls for the 2020 Civic and In-City School Board Elections opens Wednesday starting at 10:00a.m. All advance polls will be drive-thru voting at the Prince Albert ...
Gord Wiebe Oct 28, 2020

Excess Deaths Trending Up Again
Statistics Canada says, from March to June, there were more than seven thousand excess deaths in Canada. Excess mortality occurs when there are more deaths during a period of time than what would norm...
Gord Wiebe Oct 28, 2020

Police Find Missing Girl
Saskatoon Police are no longer looking for 13 year old Emma Thomas. She was reported missing after having last been seen on the 400 block of St. Laurent Crescent Monday night. Police say she has been ...
Gord Wiebe Oct 28, 2020

COVID Found in École St. Peter School
Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools has been told by the Saskatchewan Health Authority of a positive COVID-19 case in an individual at cole St. Peter School. The school division says it is working with...
Gord Wiebe Oct 28, 2020

Vitamin D Deficiency and COVID-19
A study in Spain has linked low Vitamin D levels to a higher prevalence of COVID-19. Researchers at the University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla in Santander, Spain examined the vitamin D levels of 2...
Vanese M. Ferguson Oct 28, 2020

Violent Crime Rising in Prince Albert
While overall crime is decreasing in Prince Albert, violent crime is on the rise. In 2019, there were six homicides in the city. Police have made arrests and laid charges in all of those. But, violent...
Gord Wiebe Oct 28, 2020

Road Notes
The city says that the intersection at Ruth Street and Munroe Avenue will be closed to repair a water main starting at 8:00 a.m Wednesday. The work is expected to take two days to complete, weather pe...
Gord Wiebe Oct 28, 2020















