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Garden Talk: When can I transplant a rhubarb plant?
Jill and Rick Van Duyvendyk answer all your gardening questions in Garden Talk on 650 CKOM and 980 CJME every Sunday morning at 9 a.m. Here are some questions and answers from the April 20 show: https...
Apr 20, 2025 As well as being delicious, rhubarb is very ornamental and makes a good landscape plant with a purpose.(jlmcloughlin1/Depositphotos.com)
'Democracy at work': Good voter turnout in Saskatoon at advance polls
At the SaskAbilities headquarters on Louise Avenue in Saskatoon a steady stream of people were casting their ballots on Saturday - the second day of advance voting in Canada's 44th federal election. C...
Apr 20, 2025 Nearly two million people showed up across the country to cast a ballot on Friday according to Elections Canada, which said it will be making adjustments to handle the high traffic. (Elections Canada/Submitted)
Vassy Kapelos Show: Meat council CEO says Chinese tariff on pork challenging
China's tariffs on $2.9 billion of exports from Canada - 100 per cent on canola oil and peas and 25 per cent on seafood and pork - have hit exports hard. Chris White, president and CEO of the Canadian...
Apr 20, 2025 China is a very lucrative market for Canadian pork producers because of the middle-class demographics. (Photo 95637807 © Voratham Yuangngoen | Dreamstime.com)
Police looking for possible second victim after stabbing in Saskatoon
Saskatoon Police's Service's (SPS) Serious Assault Unit is investigating and four people are in custody after a stabbing in the Riversdale neighbourhood on Friday morning. A man with stab wounds was t...
Apr 18, 2025 (Andrij-Ter / Depositphotos.com)
Saskatoon Police respond to nine bear spray incidents in under 12 hours
One person has been arrested following nine bear spray incidents in Saskatoon in less than a day. An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon dangerous to public peace and ...
Apr 17, 2025 Saskatoon Police Service have responded to nearly 10 bear spray incidents in just two days. (Saskatoon Police Service/Submitted)
4 boys arrested after shooting, bear spray leaves 1 hospitalized
A firearm was shot and bear spray was deployed at a residence on Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation on April 12, leaving one male injured. Ahtahkakoop RCMP said "a group of individuals were outside a residence o...
Apr 17, 2025 (650 CKOM files)
Lloydminster man, 22, pulled the trigger at RCMP-gun refused to fire
Battlefords RCMP were called to a residence on Mosquito, Grizzly Bear's Head, Lean Man First Nation, where a man pointed a firearm at two women after damaging a parked SUV, which he later used to driv...
Apr 17, 2025 Battlefords RCMP said they "followed the SUV, which was driving erratically – driving through ditches and over meridians – causing the vehicle to become disabled on Railway Avenue in North Battleford." (Céline Grimard/650 CKOM)
Saskatchewan legislature passes NDP bill recognizing Sikh Heritage Month
REGINA - The Saskatchewan legislature has unanimously passed an Opposition NDP private members' bill to formally recognize Sikh Heritage Month in April. Bhajan Brar's legislation says the month is imp...
Apr 17, 2025
Sask. Polytechnic cuts 27 jobs amid trade war tariff uncertainty
Saskatchewan Polytechnic is feeling the ripple effects of the economic uncertainty caused by the trade war between Canada and the United States. The post-secondary school said it was laying off 27 ful...
Apr 17, 2025 Saskatchewan Polytechnic is feeling the ripple effects of the economic uncertainty caused by the trade war between Canada and the United States.
The post-secondary school said it was laying off 27 full-time and part-time employees, with the cuts representing one percent of its workforce on April 17, 2025. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Former U of S Lutheran Theological Seminary to be demolished
The University of Saskatchewan Board of Governors have decided to demolish two properties on campus land at 113 and 114 Seminary Crescent that are unused in the next few months. The building, at 113 S...
Apr 17, 2025 The USask Board said their decision was based on a few factors, including" the prohibitive cost to repair these structures, and a lack of purpose for them that would align with the university’s teaching and research mission." They also added searches for buyers and tenants came up empty. More than 160 security calls were responded to in 2024 by USask Protective Services. There have been two internal fires, broken windows, drug paraphernalia and one external fire as well. Saskatoon Fire believes people were sleeping in the unusable buildings, which have been unoccupied since 2020. (University of Saskatchewan)
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