Author Archives: Craig Silliphant

Members of SEIU-West were out on Saskatoon streets waving purple signs and ringing cowbells on Wednesday to protest a lack of progress in collective bargaining talks. Protests at 11 different health-c...

A Saskatoon business is closing its doors after more than four decades in the city. The Awl Shoppe has been operating in Saskatoon for 43 years. The business has been known for repairing jackets and s...

July was a record-breaking month for SARCAN, obliterating its previous record of containers being taken in by more than 10 million. "It's been the busiest time in our history," said Sean Homenick, SAR...

Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine. It hasn't taken long for that decision to be met with a fair amount of skepticism from experts around the world and here at ho...

A Saskatoon man says what started as a request to remove trash from a neighbouring house led to him being assaulted and insulted with racial slurs. Fayaz Kadir, an electrical engineer, was laid off a ...

Saskatchewan's unemployment had a positive jump in July, adding 13,000 jobs -- however, Saskatoon's unemployment remains high. According to Statistics Canada, Saskatchewan saw it's unemployment rate f...

Dozens of people filled the parking lot outside of Gord Wyant's MLA office in Saskatoon Friday as part of province-wide demonstrations pleading the government to beef up its return to school plan. The...

During a busy lunch rush at Lebanese Kitchen, owner Najib Jomha is usually making his rounds to customers, thanking them for business while catching up on missed time. On Wednesday, Jomha's lunch hour...

Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Patrick Maze didn't hold back his -- or the federation's -- feelings on the province's new back-to-school plans Tuesday. Speaking in a Zoom conference just ...

Saskatchewan's music venues are struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions imposed at the beginning of the pandemic closed many doors in the industry. But SaskMusic is hoping to lend a hel...