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

Saskatoon businesses concerned about city’s climate plan
Saskatoon’s business community has concerns about the City of Saskatoon’s Climate Action Plan. The Executive Director of the North Saskatoon Business Association believes in environmental ...
Drew Wilson Aug 06, 2019

Mosaic’s Colonsay Mine Temporarily Closing, Workers Laid Off
The Mosaic Company is temporarily shutting down its Colonsay potash mine, affecting around 350 workers. The mine will stay closed with a small crew still employed to keep the facility in standby until...
Carol Thomson Aug 06, 2019

Quicker Care in Mexico than in Saskatchewan
While surgical wait times seem to continue to increase in Saskatchewan, a Round Lake man has a rather simple solution; go to Mexico for your operation. Walter White waited seven months to see a surgeo...
Saskatoon Media Group Aug 06, 2019

CFIB Takes Issue with NDP Proposal
The CFIB believes a hike in the province’s minimum wage could do more harm than good. Saskatchewan’s NDP has said it will advocate for a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage if elected, which is...
Saskatoon Media Group Aug 06, 2019

Project Reconciliation Takes its Pipeline Proposal on the Road
The first stop in Project Reconciliation’s Listening Tour was an intimidating one. Executive Chair and founder, Delbert Wapass, who is also a former Chief of Saskatchewan’s Thunderchild Fi...
Carol Thomson Aug 06, 2019

Administration Wants to Speed Up Sidewalk Work
A new report heading to a city committee today will ask city councilors to consider speeding up the process to replace 3,500 sidewalk corners that are ramp-less in the city. At the current rate, the 3...
Devyn Gregoire Aug 06, 2019

Police Use Taser After Man Exposes Himself Downtown
Around 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Saskatoon Police responded to a parking garage downtown in the 100 block of 1st Avenue South to assist security officers with a man who had been exposing himself to the p...
Devyn Gregoire Aug 05, 2019

Saskatoon Police Investigating a Robbery in Fairhaven
Around 2:45 Monday morning, Saskatoon Police responded to a report of robbery at a convenience store on the 200 block of Pendygrasse Road. A lone male in his mid-twenties, wearing a Nintendo DS shirt,...
Devyn Gregoire Aug 05, 2019

What’s Open and What’s Closed Holiday Monday
The first official Saskatchewan Day celebrated as a statutory holiday was in 1975. The Minister of Labour at the time, Gordon Snyder, proposed that although many people already had the first Monday of...
Carol Thomson Aug 05, 2019

Big River RCMP Looking for Assistance in Identifying Male Pedestrian
Big River RCMP are looking for the public’s assistance in helping identify a male pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle on Saturday. The RCMP and Big River EMS responded to the accident around ...
Devyn Gregoire Aug 05, 2019

















