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

Premier Makes Changes to Cabinet
The Premier is making a minor shuffle to his cabinet. While 14 ministers retain their current portfolios, three are changing. Lori Carr becomes Minister of Government Relations; Minister for First Nat...
Gord Wiebe Aug 13, 2019

Summit in Prince Albert Considers First Nations’ Right to Resources
Although the Treaties were all signed years before the Natural Resource Transfer Agreement between the federal government and the provinces, First Nations were not included, and the First Nations from...
Carol Thomson Aug 13, 2019

Safety Training for Indigenous Students
Free practical safety training is being given to Indigenous youth in the province. The Saskatchewan Safety Council is teaming up with Saskatchewan Building Trades to also provide information on union ...
Gord Wiebe Aug 13, 2019

Saskatoon Infrastructure Projects in Limbo
The mayor of Saskatoon is concerned a procedural wrangle between Ottawa and the provinces while a federal election is looming could delay the start of two big infrastructure projects in the city. Char...
Drew Wilson Aug 13, 2019

Possible Break For Cannabis Stores With Renewal Of Licencing On The Way
The renewal fee for Saskatoon’s legal cannabis stores may be quite a bit less than was first decided last year. It was voted in originally that the initial licencing fee would be $20-thousand an...
Carol Thomson Aug 12, 2019

Pleasant Hill Community Association Urges City To Take Action
Since 2003 when the Pleasant Hill Revitalization Committee was consulted and gave many recommendations to the City of Saskatoon, many have yet to come to fruition. A letter from the Pleasant Hill Comm...
Carol Thomson Aug 12, 2019

Man Dies After Accident August 1st
A man who was seriously injured in a 4-vehicle accident on August 1st has died. Saskatoon Police say the 32 year old was in a collision at 19th Street West and Avenue F South. Two others suffered non ...
Carol Thomson Aug 12, 2019

BC Teen Murder Suspects Died By Suicide
The two teens wanted in connection to 3 northern British Columbia homicides died in what appears to be suicides by gunfire. That from the B.C. RCMP after the bodies of 19 year old Kam McLeod and 18 ye...
Carol Thomson Aug 12, 2019

RUH NICU First In Canada To Have NicView Cameras
A donation from a grassroots group of moms whose children have been in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit presented a cheque to the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation for $71-thousand for...
Carol Thomson Aug 12, 2019

Saskatoon Among Cities to Benefit from Flood-Mapping
The Water Security Agency is flood-mapping for 20 high-risk communities through the national Disaster Mitigation Program. It will be cost-shared by the province and the federal government on a 50-50 b...
Gord Wiebe Aug 12, 2019

















