Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News
Saskatchewan Manufacturing Sales Rise in July
Manufacturing sales were up 5.3 per cent June to July in this province. Statistics Canada says nationally, there was a rise of seven per cent. Compared to July a year ago, sales here were down 14.4 pe...
Sep 15, 2020
More Illnesses From Tainted Onions
The Public Health Agency of Canada says that, since August 31st, there have been 49 additional Salmonella illnesses reported, linked to onions imported from the United States. There are now 506 confir...
Sep 15, 2020
Size of Government Remains Stable in Saskatchewan
The Fraser Institute says the size of government has risen in every province over the last two years except in two: Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island. Policy analyst Alex Whalen says, “The s...
Sep 15, 2020
Presiding Judge Pays Visit to Protest Camp
It was an unusual move for a presiding judge to make and raised some eyebrows in Regina. On Friday, Justice Graeme Mitchell said the protest and fast in Wascana Park by anti-suicide advocate Tristan D...
Sep 15, 2020
UPDATE: SaskTel Services Back Up
SaskTel says its technicians completed repairs at about 2:00 o'clock Tuesday morning to a damaged fibre cable and restored all SaskTel services in and around the communities of Bladworth, Lanigan, Nok...
Sep 15, 2020
Regina Police Use Conducted Energy Weapon to Make Arrest
On Monday, Regina Police were dispatched to a report of a man trying to punch another person. Police say when they arrived they witnessed the suspect run aggressively at the victim. When police moved ...
Sep 15, 2020
NDP Select Candidate for Martensville-Warman
Carla Streeton has been nominated as the NDP candidate for Martensville-Warman in the upcoming provincial election. As a teacher, Streeton says she has seen first-hand how the Sask Party government...
Sep 15, 2020
Sunday’s Commercial Building Fire Considered Arson
The fire on Sunday evening around 7:30 in the 200 block of Avenue I South has been been determined to be arson. The Saskatoon Fire Department responded to a commercial building fire which took almost ...
Sep 14, 2020
City to Purchase Land for Possible Civic Operations Site
The city of Saskatoon has approved the purchase of land that could be the new home of Saskatoon’s North Civic Operation Yard. The purchase sees two properties acquired in North Saskatoon, 3815 W...
Sep 14, 2020
SaskTel Planned Outage In The North Will Affect 911 Service
SaskTel has a planned outage affecting a long list of northern communities from midnight until around 6 Tuesday morning. That means no SaskTel internet, wireless or landline service during that time. ...
Sep 14, 2020