Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
Author Archives: Lara Fominoff
New elementary school planned for west Saskatoon to replace three ageing facilities
Saskatoon Public Schools has been asking the province for capital funding for repairs and upgrades for at least one west Saskatoon elementary school for the last 24 years. Until this past March, no fu...
May 01, 2020
RCMP institute new protocols in light of COVID-19 outbreak
RCMP officers have been dealing with infectious disease concerns on the job for decades, whether it's hepatitis, HIV or other illnesses. As part of their job, police still have to get close to people ...
May 01, 2020
Going back to work may mean paying back CERB benefits for some employees
Monday, May 4 will mark the first phase of the re-opening of a select few types of businesses and services in Saskatchewan, after nearly two months. That also means, that some employees who were previ...
Apr 30, 2020 Photo Courtesy: Government of Canada, CRA
Closed to avoid large gatherings - City of Saskatoon and MVA eye re-opening Cranberry Flats
Before it was closed April 20, RCMP had been called out to popular recreational spot Cranberry Flats many times. The calls, said City of Saskatoon's GM of Community Services Lynne LaCroix - were compl...
Apr 29, 2020 Cranberry Flats
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Council gives green light to draft conversion therapy bylaw
In a 9 -2 vote, Saskatoon city councillors voted Monday, April 27, to draft a bylaw to ban conversion therapy as a business in the city. City solicitor Cindy Yelland told council they would be followi...
Apr 28, 2020
New safety protocols, late spring cited as reasons city street sweeping to continue into July
Street sweeping in Saskatoon won't likely be completed until late July, more than a month later than it normally would be finished. The new street cleaning and sweeping plan is part of City Council's ...
Apr 28, 2020 Street sweeping will continue, likely into late July this year. Lara Fominoff/CKOM
Saskatoon city council approves emergency financial measures to shrink COVID-19 deficit
Saskatoon city council is taking a first step towards lessening the blow of a budget deficit caused by COVID-19. Councillors voted 10-1 Monday in favour of a host of recommendations that will apply to...
Apr 27, 2020
Parents urged to keep tabs on kids’ Internet interactions to stop online predators
Online predatory crimes against children have gone up significantly over the past few years. Police in Saskatchewan are noticing that while it's not spiking in this province, it has gone up as childre...
Apr 27, 2020 A teen plays popular Fortnite video game. Lara Fominoff/ 650 CKOM
Saskatoon police pay tribute to fallen Nova Scotia RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson
The ceremony was brief -- less than half an hour -- and physical distancing measures were carefully executed. The Saskatoon Police Service paid tribute Friday to RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson and the ot...
Apr 24, 2020 A Saskatoon Police Officer stands at attention as a brief ceremony was held Friday afternoon for RCMP Cst. Heidi Stevenson and more than 20 others, who lost their lives to a gunman last weekend.
More information, clarity needed from the province on re-opening says Saskatoon salon owner
Douglas Armo Bean has owned Salon Deja Vu on Broadway Avenue for more than two decades. The last six weeks or so have been unlike anything he and his staff of four, have experienced. While he's had so...
Apr 24, 2020 Photo Courtesy Salon Deja Vu Saskatoon Facebook Page
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