Murray Wood: Paying for junk pretentiously passed off as public art
As people debate Saskatoon spending $300,000 on plastic rocks, Murray Wood notes that the great unwashed aren't really s...
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Man in standoff in Kindersley was suspect in armed robbery
The Kindersley RCMP has released details of a standoff that occurred in the city last week. In a media release Wednesday, the RCMP said officers responded last Thursday at about 11:20 p.m., to a call ...
Feb 23, 2022 RCMP in downtown Kindersley on Feb. 17, 2022. (West Central Online)
Trudeau revokes Emergencies Act; Moe reacts to decision
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lifted the Emergencies Act on Wednesday, just two days after its use was supported in a vote in the House of Commons and nine days after it was invoked. "We were very cle...
Feb 23, 2022
NDP’s Singh defends decision to support Emergencies Act
The leader of the federal NDP is defending his party’s decision to support the use of the Emergencies Act. Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberal government needed the support of one other part...
Feb 23, 2022
Extreme cold warnings remain in place across Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan residents who visited Environment Canada's alerts page were seeing red early Wednesday morning. The weather service splits the province into 32 regions for its alerts, and all 32 were und...
Feb 23, 2022
BATC getting federal help to find unmarked graves at two residential school sites
The Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC) are getting help from the federal government to find the unmarked graves of children who went missing while attending the Battleford Industrial and Thunderc...
Feb 22, 2022 Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller speaks during a media conference on Feb. 22, 2022.(Submitted)
SGI offering option to leave sex designation field blank on licences
Driver’s licences in Saskatchewan are now more inclusive. As of Tuesday, SGI is introducing the option to leave the sex designation field blank on licences or photo ID cards instead of having an...
Feb 22, 2022
Two in hospital after stabbing in Greystone Heights area
Two people were taken to hospital after they were stabbed at a house in the Greystone Heights neighbourhood Sunday. According to the Saskatoon Police Service, officers responded at about 2:30 a.m., to...
Feb 22, 2022
Sask. crop insurance average coverage to reach record level in 2022
The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation's average coverage is to hit a record high in 2022, but premiums also are increasing. The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan on Tuesday announced covera...
Feb 22, 2022
Company fined $120K in wake of workplace injury in Martensville
A workplace injury in July of 2020 has resulted in a $120,000 fine for a Saskatchewan company. In a media release Tuesday, the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety said Shercom Industries...
Feb 22, 2022 (File photo/650 CKOM)
Canadian athletes leave Beijing with 26 Olympic medals
Canadian athletes added one more medal to the country's total Sunday before bidding farewell to the Beijing Winter Olympics. The team led by pilot Justin Kripps (Summerland, B.C.) won bronze in the fo...
Feb 20, 2022 Canada's athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics enter the Bird's Nest Stadium for the closing ceremonies. (Team Canada/Twitter)
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