Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Air Canada Getting Ready to Ramp Up
They may only being offering 97 flights compared to 220 options last year but Air Canada says it says it will resume service to the U.S. on May 22nd. In addition within Canada the schedule will increa...
Vanese M. Ferguson May 22, 2020

Over three Thousand Missing Persons Reports in Saskatoon in 2019
The Saskatoon Police Service received 3,265 missing persons reports last year. A report to the Board of Police Commissioners states that the large majority of cases are missing youth – 51 per ce...
Carol Thomson May 22, 2020

La Loche RCMP Lay Bootlegging Charges
A tip from the public had officers from the La Loche RCMP Detachment stationed along Highway 155 south of the town limits Wednesday evening. There was word that some residents were traveling from La L...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

UPDATE: Regina Police Now on Two Death Investigations
One man is dead and a woman is in hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening in Regina. Police are on the scene at Fisher Street along with the Saskatchewan Coroners service, investigating...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

The Travel Numbers for March Are Out
Not surprisingly, International travel numbers, to and from Canada show travel coming to a standstill by the end of March. Statistics Canada says the effect of government-imposed travel restrictions a...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

Retail Sales Fell in March But We Did Better than Most
Statistics Canada says retail sales in Saskatchewan fell 1.5 per cent February to March. We fared well compared to the rest of the country. Nationally, sales were down 10 per cent. Even year-to-year, ...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

Three Fires Overnight
Saskatoon Fire Department crews had to deal with three fires in the space of about one hour Thursday night. The first was a garage fire about 9:40 at a boarded-up home on the 100 block of Avenue K Sou...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

Reports Released on Use of Force and Police Pursuits
The Saskatoon Police Service made 13,713 arrests in 2019, with only 271 incidents of use of force. Inspector Cam Drever says that works out to 1.97 per cent of the time that force was needed. A use of...
Carol Thomson May 22, 2020

Road Notes
The intersection of Central Avenue and 105th Street closes at 8:00 am Friday to replace a catch basin. The city says the work is expected to take a day to complete. That’s if everything goes as ...
Gord Wiebe May 22, 2020

Onion Lake RCMP Looking for Help Locating Man With Multiple Arrest Warrants
Public assistance is being sought by Onion Lake R-C-M-P in order to locate Robert Lee Plourde-Dillon (pictured). The 24-year-old has several outstanding warrants for his arrest on charges ranging from...
Les Lazaruk May 21, 2020














