Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) Top News Stories

Telemiracle raises over $5.7 million, Saskatchewan people keep on giving
Since Telemiracle’s fist telethon in 1977, over $165 million has been raised by the Kinsmen Foundation. This year’s telethon, the 49th annual, raised $5,709,306. Chair of Telemiracle 49, T...
Carol Thomson Mar 03, 2025

Numerous overdoses in short amount of time prompts warning from Prairie Harm Reduction
Prairie Harm Reduction on 20th Street in Saskatoon has posted on Facebook regarding a large number of overdoses in the last few days. The post also reads that naloxone has been reported not to be work...
Keira Miller Mar 02, 2025

TeleMiracle 49 underway at Prairieland Park
TeleMiracle 49 is well underway. Beginning at 9:00 p.m. last night and running today until 5:00 p.m., the 20-hour telethon is over half-way complete. The event is taking place at Saskatoon’s Pra...
Keira Miller Mar 02, 2025

PrairiesCan invests in western-Canadian polytechnic institutions
The federal department that promotes economic growth in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan has invested nearly $900,000 into polytechnics across the prairies. PrairiesCan announced the funding yesterd...
Keira Miller Mar 01, 2025

Saskatchewan small business optimism takes a tumble in February
Confidence for small businesses in Saskatchewan seems to have slumped in February. According to the Canadian Federation of Independant Business ‘Business Barometer’, the long-term small bu...
Keira Miller Mar 01, 2025

Adjusted hours for Saskatoon City Hospital Emergency Department continue through March 9
What started on February 21, will continue through March 9 when it comes to adjusted hours for the Saskatoon City Hospital Emergency Department, based on physician availability. A Saskatchewan Health ...
Les Lazaruk Feb 28, 2025

Appeal by Province over legal action taken by MN-S gets shut down by Supreme Court of Canada
Members of Indigenous communities across Canada are celebrating today, after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled to dismiss an appeal by the Provincial Government regarding a lawsuit filed by Metis Nati...
Keira Miller Feb 28, 2025

Trio of drug traffickers arrested and charged plus large haul seized in Saskatoon
A traffic stop in Saskatoon’s Erindale neighbourhood, followed shortly thereafter by a search warrant executed in Sutherland, has resulted in three individuals facing charges from a drug traffic...
Les Lazaruk Feb 28, 2025

Ring those phones for Kinsmen Telemiracle this weekend
With just one day left until the kickoff of Saskatchewan’s favourite telethon, the cast and crew of TeleMiracle 49 is sharing what goes into organizing an event of this size. Event Chair, Terri ...
Keira Miller Feb 28, 2025

“I believe there is a path to avoid these tariffs”: Moe returns from second mission to Washington D.C.
As Canada braces for broad-based tariffs on March 4th and steel and aluminum tariffs on the 12th, Saskatchewan’s Premier says it is actually American families that will be feeling their effects ...
Keira Miller Feb 28, 2025














