Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
Category Archives: Local News
Teachers seek priority COVID vaccinations in Sask. like first responders, grocery employees
As first responders and certain grocery store workers get vaccine prioritization, teachers in Saskatchewan are wondering if they'll also get a chance to get it. "It's really good news to hear that fir...
Apr 13, 2021
Biggar Revitalization Project supported by Brownlee Family Foundation funding
There's a Biggar future on the horizon for the central Saskatchewan town, which is being supported by a revitalization campaign backed by former resident Wayne Brownlee. Brownlee and his wife, Ina Lou...
Apr 13, 2021 The aim of the Biggar Revitalization Project is to overhaul Main Street and downtown, but the centrepiece of the revitalization will see the Canadian National Railway grounds, an iconic landmark with a deep history in the area, turned into a multi-use park with a festival stage, historic garden and tourism hub.
Saskatoon Tribal Council immunization clinic vaccinates Indigenous, non-Indigenous people
COVID-19 doesn't see colour. That was just one of the messages from Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC) Tribal Chief Mark Arcand on Tuesday. His STC has facilitated a vaccine clinic of its own, located at ...
Apr 13, 2021 Saskatoon Tibal Chief Mark Arcand recieves his COVID-19 vaccine at the SaskTel Centre clinic on April 9, 2021. (
Jaris Swidrovich/Twitter)
Sask. changes public health orders, returns to household bubbles
Saskatchewan tightened things up Tuesday. Due to a recent surge in COVID-19 cases and in cases of variants of concern, the Saskatchewan government announced that, effective immediately, all private in...
Apr 13, 2021
Saskatoon Fire Department slaps Prairie Heights condo board with $58K bill for repairs
The Saskatoon Fire Department (SFD) is invoicing the condo board of Prairie Heights nearly $58,000 for repairs as well as being a drain on police and fire resources. In 2020, the fire department respo...
Apr 13, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon police again asking for help on one-year anniversary of murder
On April 13, 2020, Tanya Alcrow was murdered on a Saskatoon street. One year later, the Saskatoon Police Service is again asking for information that could help investigators solve the case. At approx...
Apr 13, 2021 Surveillance footage shows a truck police say was at the scene of the murder of Tanya Alcrow on April 13, 2020. (Saskatoon Police Service/Submitted)
Now is not the time to be 'vaccine shopping', says infectious disease doctor
With variants of concern spreading aggressively and quickly in Saskatchewan -- particularly in the southern part of the province -- a Regina doctor says now is not the time to be "vaccine shopping," c...
Apr 12, 2021
Latest COVID update April 12: 300 new cases, 253 recoveries, 1 death
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan has more than doubled in less than a month. On Monday - when 300 new cases were reported by the provincial government - the active caseload stood at...
Apr 12, 2021
Boy rescued from South Saskatchewan River by Saskatoon runner
Two boys on the shoreline of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon were fortunate Brad Pilon was nearby when one of them slipped into the water. Pilon was running on the Meewasin Trail with his wi...
Apr 12, 2021 Two boys on the shoreline of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon were fortunate Brad Pilon was nearby when one of them slipped into the water. Pilon went into the water to retrieve the child, swimming them both back to safety. The video was recorded by Pilon's wife, Ashley and released by Medavie Health Services West.
Costs of home building products 'going to take some time' to drop: SRHBA CEO
It's costing more -- about $30,000 more on average -- to build a house these days. Chris Guerette, the CEO of the Saskatoon & Region Home Builders' Association (SRHBA), said the Canadian Home Buil...
Apr 12, 2021 Worker hauling lumber on April 25, 2017. (File Photo/650 CKOM)
NOW TRENDING
OPINION
Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
LATEST WEATHER
TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
8:30 - Construction for the AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood is set to begin this spring, but many residents in the ...
