Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

NDP Wonders How Close Government Got To Selling Off SaskTel
The Saskatchewan NDP is concerned that the government’s plans in 2017 to sell SaskTel progressed much further than was acknowledged. Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon submitted a letter to the Sp...
Carol Thomson Oct 24, 2019

Large Cache Of Stolen Goods Recovered
The Regina Police Service has recovered a significant amount of stolen property including jewelry, bicycles, power tools, golf bags, large spools of wire and tires. The conservative estimate is that t...
Carol Thomson Oct 24, 2019

Animal Cruelty Charges Laid in Alberta While Two Other Cases Remain in Court
A dog owner from northwestern Alberta faces four charges under the province’s Animal Protection Act after 16 animals were seized from a property. The Alberta SPCA says peace officers who searche...
Drew Wilson Oct 24, 2019

WCB Proposes Steady 2020 Average Premium Rate
The Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board is proposing the 2020 average employer premium rate remain at $1.17 per hundred dollars of payroll. This follows 12 consecutive years of decreases. D...
Gord Wiebe Oct 24, 2019
P-A Residents Favour Ban on Plastic Bags
Prince Albert residents appear to be solidly in support of banning single use plastic bags. City administration say the survey on the topic got over 17-hundred responses, the most ever for a city surv...
Drew Wilson Oct 24, 2019

Home Schooling is Most Common on the Prairies
According to Statistics Canada, home schooling is most prevalent on the Prairie Provinces. Across the country, the proportion of home-schooled students is less than one per cent; the national average ...
Gord Wiebe Oct 24, 2019

Road Notes
A Thursday morning note for motorists, 5th Avenue East from Marquis Road to 40th Street East will be closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for water value repairs. Local traffic will be allowed if entering fro...
Drew Wilson Oct 24, 2019

Police Investigate Hit and Run
Two cyclists received minor injuries after a hit-and-run incident at Avenue N and 12th Street. Saskatoon Police say, just before eight o’clock Wednesday night, a vehicle heading down 12th street...
Gord Wiebe Oct 24, 2019

Man Arrested After Armed Robbery
Saskatoon Police have a 38 year old man in custody after an armed robbery on the three thousand block of Diefenbaker Drive. Just before ten o’clock last night (wed), police were called to a busi...
Gord Wiebe Oct 24, 2019

Calgary Man Wanted on Canada-wide Warrant for Fraud
A 37-year-old Calgary man is wanted by Yorkton RCMP on charges of fraud, theft and breach of trust. Police say the owner of a Calgary contracting form owes subcontractors for work on a large retail cl...
Drew Wilson Oct 23, 2019

















