Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Bleak News from the Canadian Oilfield Services Activity Forecast
The Petroleum Services Association of Canada has revised the number of wells drilled across Canada for this year, decreasing the number by 1,400 wells, to 3,100. That’s a drop of 31 per cent fro...
Gord Wiebe Apr 30, 2020

One Dead and Five Missing After Military Helicopter Crash
A Canadian Forces helicopter with six crew on board, crashed into the sea off Greece Wednesday, killing one crew member. Sub-Lt. Abbigail Cowbrough , a 23 year old from Nova Scotia who was identified ...
Saskatoon Media Group Apr 30, 2020

City Police and Corman Park Police Join Forces to Stop Suspect Vehicle
A police chase that started in Saskatoon ended with the vehicle in a ditch at Highway 12 and Township Road 404, about 38 kilometres north of the city. Saskatoon Police say they tried to stop the vehic...
Gord Wiebe Apr 30, 2020

Cause of Wednesday Afternoon Fire is Accidental
The Saskatoon Fire Department says a fire in a garage in the 800 block of Avenue J South on Wednesday was accidental. Saskatoon Police officers patrolling in the area, called in a report of smoke comi...
Vanese M. Ferguson Apr 30, 2020

Carbon Tax Appeal to be Heard in September
The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear Saskatchewan’s appeal of the carbon tax, and Ontario’s appeal of the same, in September. The two cases were supposed to have been heard last M...
Gord Wiebe Apr 30, 2020

Stabbing Sends One Man to Hospital
Saskatoon Police say they were called to the 100 block of Hampton Circle around 9:30 last night (weds) after receiving a report of an assault. When officers got to the scene they found a 43 year old m...
Vanese M. Ferguson Apr 30, 2020

A Deadly Encounter with Rising Flood Waters in Alberta
Wood Buffalo RCMP received an emergency call from two men who had been riding on ATVs on a trail northeast of For MacKay when the Athabasca River suddenly rose and overtook them. They held onto a subm...
Gord Wiebe Apr 30, 2020

Unifor Wants Province to Force an End to a Private Sector Contract Dispute
Union members at the Co-op refinery in Regina have voted against Federated Co-op’s latest contract offer. 89 per cent said no. Over 700 employees were locked out of the facility on December 5th ...
Gord Wiebe Apr 30, 2020

Road Notes
The intersection of Taylor Street and Cumberland Avenue closes down at 8:00 this morning (thurs). The City of Saskatoon says water main replacement work is being carried out. It should take two days t...
Gord Wiebe Apr 30, 2020

Saskatchewan Dealing With Two COVID-19 Outbreaks, Re-open Plan Remains
With 17 new cases of COVID-19 and a sixth death, it may not seem like Saskatchewan is flattening the curve, but the Premier says we are. A second person from a long term care facility in La Loche has ...
Carol Thomson Apr 29, 2020














