Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

The NDP Again Raise Concerns About Building in Wascana Park
Provincial Capital Commission critic Nicole Sarauer is once again speaking out against the Brandt/CNIB building proposed for Wascana Park. The Commission says the building will go ahead with more publ...
Saskatoon Media Group Feb 12, 2020

Potential for Slippery Roads and Sidewalks
The City of Saskatoon is warning of slippery sidewalks and streets after overnight flurries, blowing snow, and a sharp drop in temperature. Crews have been out, spreading salt and sand at high risk lo...
Gord Wiebe Feb 12, 2020

Alberta Man Killed During Incident with RCMP
One man is dead after an altercation with Alberta RCMP. Around five o’clock Tuesday afternoon, two officers responded to a call-for-service in the parking lot of a store in Blairmore, in the Cro...
Gord Wiebe Feb 12, 2020

Police Shoot Dog in Regina
A Regina Police officer shot a dog over the noon hour yesterday [tues]. Officers were sent to a residence on the 1,000 block of Broder Street about a disturbance involving a male inside a residence sc...
Gord Wiebe Feb 12, 2020

1.2 Million Litres of Oil Spilled
In recent history in Saskatchewan, 225-thousand litres of diluted heavy oil spilled into the North Saskatchewan River near Maidstone in 2016, then last December, an estimated 1.5-million litres leaked...
Carol Thomson Feb 11, 2020

Pipeline Protesters May Cause CN to Shut Down Significant Sections of Track
Canadian National Railway says it will be forced to shut down significant parts of its Canadian network if the blockades on its rail lines aren’t removed. The blockade near Belleville, Ontario i...
Carol Thomson Feb 11, 2020

Promoting Western Concerns Prior To Budget
Saskatoon’s Mayor spent Monday with municipal and federal leaders looking for solutions to the economic uncertainty in Western Canada. Charlie Clark says Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland ...
Carol Thomson Feb 11, 2020

Shot and Then Walked Days to Get Help
A remarkable tale of the will to live. Churchill RCMP in Manitoba say they were called out to a report of man who had been shot and was suffering from exposure on Cape Merry Road in Churchill. The 29 ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 11, 2020

Robber Nabbed Wrapped in Drapes
A 22 year old man is facing charges of Break and Enter and Mischief after being arrested in his underwear, while robed in drapes. It began at 2:30 am Tuesday morning when Saskatoon Police Service resp...
Gord Wiebe Feb 11, 2020

WCB Coverage Expands for Firefighters
Amendments to the Workers' Compensation Act have expanded the list of occupational diseases covered by the rebuttable presumption for firefighters. Six cancers not previously covered by the Workers' C...
Gord Wiebe Feb 11, 2020

















