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...
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Former Saskatoon resident describes 'awful' environment in downtown Ottawa
A former Saskatoon resident who now works at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) says the past week has been "horrific" for many living and working in Ottawa. David Scharf says since the...
Feb 07, 2022 Trucks parked on Metcalfe Street in downtown Ottawa as a rally against COVID-19 restrictions. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE/Justin Tang
Regina BBQ king finishes in the top 15 out of 299 teams in Texas competition
Regina's Rob Reinhardt is a barbecue expert. The owner of Prairie Smoke and Spice BBQ in Regina and president of the Canadian BBQ Society has nearly two dozen cooking championships under his belt, inc...
Feb 07, 2022 (Rob Reinhardt/Submitted)
Social services ministry unable to speak to Lighthouse issues in Saskatoon
Saskatchewan's Ministry of Social Services won't be involving itself in recent events at The Lighthouse shelter and assisted living facility in Saskatoon. According to a statement from Jeff Redekop, t...
Feb 03, 2022 (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM file photo)
Broadway Avenue Extra Foods to permanently close its doors in April
There's now an expiry date on the Broadway Avenue Extra Foods in Saskatoon. Parent company Loblaw Co. Ltd. has confirmed in a statement that the doors on the store will close for good on April 23 afte...
Feb 02, 2022 Extra Foods on Broadway Avenue in Saskatoon. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal dismisses appeal by sexual predator
A child predator who was declared a dangerous offender in December of 2018 has had his appeal of that designation, and an indefinite sentence, dismissed. The appeal was heard on Nov. 30 and the decisi...
Feb 02, 2022 The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. (650 CKOM file photo)
Downtown Saskatoon wellness centre gets green light for expansion
Saskatoon city council has given a unanimous thumbs up to a 20-bed expansion at the downtown wellness centre. The shelter, located at 145 First Ave. N, opened Dec. 15 with a 50-person capacity. It has...
Feb 01, 2022 Inside a new temporary wellness shelter in Saskatoon. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Sask. NDP calls COVID isolation and reporting changes 'a series of disappointments'
The Saskatchewan government is downplaying the seriousness of the latest COVID-19 Omicron wave while limiting public access to information, according to NDP Leader Ryan Meili. On Thursday, Health Mini...
Jan 27, 2022 Ryan Meili. (Libby GIesbrecht/650 CKOM file photo)
Hundreds turn out in Saskatoon to support truckers opposed to cross-border vaccine mandate
Hundreds of semi trucks and other vehicles a part of a convoy to Ottawa made their way through Saskatchewan on Monday. Hundreds of people turned out at a Flying J truck stop in Saskatoon in the aftern...
Jan 24, 2022 A truck convoy goes through Balgonie on Jan. 24, 2022. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Lighthouse shelter and supported living hit with dozens of fines
The Saskatoon Fire Department has issued fines to The Lighthouse over a series of code violations in the past several months. According to the City of Saskatoon, there were 42 Fire Safety Act violatio...
Jan 21, 2022
Ukrainian family in Saskatoon worries war with Russia is 'inevitable'
Petro and Iryna Skirchuk and their seven-year-old daughter have only been in Canada for eight months, but they knew when they visited in the past that they wanted to make this country their home. "The...
Jan 19, 2022 Petro Skirchuk (left), his wife Iryna Skirchuk (right) and their daughter (centre).
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