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Updated cycling bylaw gearing up for discussion at Saskatoon committee
The rules on Saskatoon's roads and sidewalks could be about to change as city staff propose a series of updates to the local bicycle bylaw. Updated regulations would include mandating cars to keep a m...
Nov 01, 2019
Liberal government underreacting to Encana move, says professor
The Encana oil and gas company is moving from Alberta to Texas and changing its name to Ovintiv. Duane Bratt, a political studies professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, said the Liberal gover...
Nov 01, 2019
Concerns raised about Indigenous graduation rates
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) and the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) are calling for more support to increase Indigenous high school graduation rates. STF President Pa...
Nov 01, 2019 Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations call for immediate investment in education (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon high school students collect donations for annual food drive
Students at St. Joseph's high school in Saskatoon, hit the streets on Halloween, but they weren't filling pillowcases with candy. They were out collecting food donations for their 13th annual Hallowee...
Nov 01, 2019 Students at St. Joseph's high school collected this pile of food with their 13th annual Halloweening for Hunger food drive. (Harrison Brooks/CKOM)
Saskatoon police looking to hire 8 more officers to patrol safe consumption site
The Saskatoon Police Service is hoping to hire eight more officers as the city prepares to allocate more resources related to the opening of a safe consumption site next year. Saskatoon police are ask...
Nov 01, 2019
New Saskatoon bridges easing traffic on busier crossings
Saskatoon's newest bridges are taking a load off other river crossings around the city. A new report going to city council's transportation committee on Monday analyzed the traffic impacts from the op...
Nov 01, 2019 An opening ceremony was held for the Chief Mistawasis Bridge in Saskatoon on Oct. 2, 2018. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Suspect opens bear spray when gas station sold out of favourite smokes
Saskatoon police are looking for a man in connection to a bear spraying and theft at two separate gas stations Wednesday morning. In a news release, police said around 7 a.m., a man entered the Fas Ga...
Nov 01, 2019 Police say a suspect opened a can of bear spray at this Fas Gas on Idylwyld Drive on Oct 30, 2019
More issues leaked at Sask. Hospital in North Battleford
Things have gone from bad to worse for the Saskatchewan Hospital in North Battleford (SHNB), after reports of new problems with the building were leaked recently. NDP leader Ryan Meili says the list o...
Nov 01, 2019 (battlefordsNOW file photo)
Appeal in La Loche shooter case denied
The adult sentence is remaining in place for the La Loche school shooter. His appeal was denied Thursday afternoon by two of the three judges at the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan. In January of 2016...
Oct 31, 2019
U of T psychologist explains why we enjoy fear
Every Halloween, people line up to see horror movies and haunted houses, but why is fear so attractive? According to Steve Joordens, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, it comes fr...
Oct 31, 2019
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