Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Charged With Speeding While Asleep
Alberta RCMP have charged a man for speeding while asleep. This happened back in July. RCMP received a complaint that a car was speeding south on Highway 2 near Ponoka. The car appeared to be self-dri...
Gord Wiebe Sep 17, 2020

Man Charged with Arson – Disregard for Human Life
A Saskatoon man is facing an arson charge following an incident Wednesday night. Around six o’clock, Patrol officers went to a home in the 100 block of Shaftsbury Place, where it was reported th...
Gord Wiebe Sep 17, 2020

The City Will Hire a PPE Co-coordinator for the Civic Election
The deadline to apply for a job working the civic election and the advance polls in Saskatoon is this Sunday. Returning Officer, Scott Bastian says a new position this year, because of the pandemic, i...
Carol Thomson Sep 17, 2020

NDP Commits to Geothermal Power
NDP leader Ryan Meili says an NDP government would harness the power of our Crowns and the expertise of the oil patch to explore the development of affordable, scalable, renewable baseload geothermal ...
Gord Wiebe Sep 17, 2020

Province Announces Research Funding for the Province’s Two Universities
The province is spending nearly $1.8 million on university research projects. The money will go into nine projects at USask and five at the University of Regina. Minister Responsible Tina Beaudry-Mell...
Gord Wiebe Sep 17, 2020

New School to be Built in Moose Jaw
A joint-use elementary school is going to be built in Moose Jaw. A site has been selected and the government says they can now move forward with the next phase. The province has committee $50 million ...
Gord Wiebe Sep 17, 2020

COVID and Discrimination
Statistics Canada says the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified existing inequities in Canadian society. In a recent crowdsourcing survey of over 35 thousand people, over a quarter of the participants re...
Gord Wiebe Sep 17, 2020

Schools to Receive Money from Federal Carbon Tax
The federal government says that over 160 energy efficiency projects are set to move ahead for schools in Saskatchewan thanks to proceeds from carbon pollution pricing. Minister of Environment and Cli...
Gord Wiebe Sep 17, 2020

SGEU Asks for Help in Talks with Saskatchewan Cancer Agency
SGEU members at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency are at an impasse in contract negotiations and have requested a provincial Labour Relations Officer be appointed to help out the 2 sides come to an agree...
Carol Thomson Sep 17, 2020

Thursday Prince Albert Road Closure
Motorists in Prince Albert are being told to use caution and reduce speed Thursday for a road closure. The City of Prince Albert is closing 15th Street West, between 19th and 20th Avenue, for sanitary...
Les Lazaruk Sep 16, 2020















