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

Premier suggests more conversations, more targeted tariffs
Premier Scott Moe says Canada retaliating with broad-based, dollar-for-dollar tariffs against the U.S. if they come to fruition is not the answer, because it hurts Canadians and the general economy. H...
Carol Thomson Jan 22, 2025

Water main break delays sentencing hearing at Saskatoon Court of King’s Bench
Because of a water main break at Saskatoon’s Court of King’s Bench, a sentencing hearing was cancelled on Wednesday for two people who recently pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death ...
Carol Thomson Jan 22, 2025

‘We need improvements to our working conditions and our compensation’: SEIU West members push for change
Purple and yellow flags and banners painted the sky outside of Saskatoon City Hospital over the noon hour on Wednesday, as members of SEIU West demonstrated a need for change in the latest of several ...
Keira Miller Jan 22, 2025

University Bridge has reopened with some traffic restrictions
The University Bridge has reopened after a fire underneath the bridge deck late Sunday night resulted in damage to a sanitary sewer main and a full bridge closure. The bridge reopened following a stru...
Neil Billinger Jan 22, 2025

NDP says fewer nurses in 2023 than in 2018
The Saskatchewan NDP says new data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information indicates there were fewer nurses working in the province in 2023 than there were in 2018, when Premier Scott Moe t...
Carol Thomson Jan 22, 2025

Strep throat and ear infection testing now available at some pharmacies
There are two new services available at select pharmacies across the province. The Government of Saskatchewan is allowing pharmacists to provide strep throat and ear infection testing, and from that t...
Carol Thomson Jan 22, 2025

NDP wants emergency committee meeting following the loss of planned agricultural value-added investments
NDP MLA's on the Saskatchewan Standing Committee on the Economy are calling for an emergency meeting. This follows two major agricultural projects in Regina being put on hold by Federated Co-operative...
Neil Billinger Jan 21, 2025

University Bridge inspection Wednesday, wastewater clean up begins
The inspection to see if the University Bridge is safe after an encampment fire Sunday night which melted a sanitary sewer main is early Wednesday morning. The City of Saskatoon says until the bridge ...
Carol Thomson Jan 21, 2025

Charges laid in Saskatoon’s first homicide of 2025
A 53-year-old man has been charged with first degree murder following an incident in the city’s north end on Monday evening. Police were called to a business in the 3900 block of Millar Avenue, ...
Neil Billinger Jan 21, 2025

Thirty years of sharing the warmth to help those most vulnerable
SaskEnergy’s Share the Warmth program is back for its 30th year of handing out supplies to the province’s most vulnerable. The Crown Corporation’s President, Marc Guillet says in the...
Carol Thomson Jan 21, 2025














