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Wray Morrison: The future with Fajardo
Cody Fajardo’s new two-year extension has made general manager Jeremy O’Day very popular in Saskatchewan. Fans here like the fact that Fajardo is talking about being a franchise quarterbac...
Oct 22, 2019
Voyeurism charge laid in Sept. incident at U of S
Saskatoon police have laid a charge in a voyeurism incident at the U of S last month. On Sept. 9 security at the university found a man in a library who had indecently exposed himself. It had been rep...
Oct 22, 2019 (650 CKOM)
Crews battle two early morning garage fires
Saskatoon firefighters had a busy morning Tuesday battling two garage fires. The first was called in just after 3 a.m. The initial call was for a dumpster fire, but when crews got to the scene, they f...
Oct 22, 2019 Firefighters battle an early morning garage fire at 113 Ave. M South, Oct.22, 2019.
(Saskatoon Fire Dept.)
Sask. voter turnout beats national average
Voter turnout in Saskatchewan was higher than the national average. A total of 570,505 people in the province made it out to the polls for Monday's federal election. That's 71.7 per cent of eligible v...
Oct 22, 2019
Lanigan comes up short in Kraft Heinz Project Play contest
A new pool will have to wait a bit longer for the town of Lanigan, southeast of Saskatoon. The community was one of four finalists in the Kraft Heinz Project Plat contest, but didn't receive enough vo...
Oct 22, 2019 The town of Lanigan received $25,000 from the Kraft Heinz Project Play contest toward a new swimming pool. (Facebook)
Driver charged after crash knocks out power
A 27-year-old man has been charged after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a power pole at 8th Street and Boychuk Drive around 11:30 Monday night, causing a massive power outage in some areas of...
Oct 22, 2019 SaskPower reported that power was out in Saskatoon due a car colliding with the median and a power pole at 8th Street and Boychuck Drive on the night of Oct. 21, 2019. (SaskPower Twitter page)
Conservatives sweep 14 Saskatchewan ridings
As a Liberal minority government was projected across Canada, a blue wave swept across Saskatchewan. The Conservative Party won in all 14 of the province's ridings, including that of longtime Liberal ...
Oct 21, 2019
Saskatoon has two new Members of Parliament
There will be two new faces representing Saskatoon in the House of Commons. Conservative Brad Redekopp beat the incumbent, Sheri Benson of the New Democrats, in Saskatoon West in a race that was close...
Oct 21, 2019 Brad Redekopp speaks after winning the Saskatoon West riding on Oct. 21, 2019. (650 CKOM file photo)
Kram defeats Goodale in Regina-Wascana
For a brief period Monday, Michael Kram was thinking he wouldn't be giving up his day job. "I went to Elections.ca and the first two polls that came in didn't go my way and I was thinking, 'OK, I gues...
Oct 21, 2019 Conservative candidate Michael Kram speaks to the crowd after winning the Regina-Wascana seat in the federal election on Oct. 21, 2019. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Mural in Edmonton that offered thanks to young Swedish climate activist defaced
EDMONTON - An Edmonton man says he defaced a mural of teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg because he wanted to take a stand peacefully. James Bagnall says he wrote "stop the lies" and "thi...
Oct 21, 2019
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