NorSask Forest Products will be receiving $3-million from the federal government to modernize its sawmill. This is the latest in a series of investments. That was the response from the Natural Resources Minister, Amarjeet Sohi, when asked if it was a political move with the looming election. He says $400,000 was announced earlier this summer […]
Families now have access to a pediatric emergency doctor 24 hours a day through the Royal University Hospital’s children’s emergency department. Before August 1st, the department was open from 8 a.m. to midnight and after hours, children would be seen through the adult emergency department with a pediatrician on-call. Vice President of Provincial Programs for […]
Funding for some projects in Saskatchewan which the province had said were in jeopardy if an infrastructure deal in place were not changed have been approved by the federal government. Federal Infrastructure Minister Francois-Phillipe Champagne has a letter on his Twitter account showing funding for 13 of the province’s requested projects have been approved with the […]
The federal and provincial governments, as well as the Water Security Agency, is contributing more than one million dollars to conduct flood mapping of 20 high-risk communities in Saskatchewan. The area includes Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Weyburn and Yorkton, as well as several other towns and villages that would benefit from obtaining flood maps and […]
The first stop in Project Reconciliation’s Listening Tour was an intimidating one. Executive Chair and founder, Delbert Wapass, who is also a former Chief of Saskatchewan’s Thunderchild First Nation, explains that they are traveling through Alberta and British Columbia to talk to First Nations about the possibility of joining together to bid for 51% ownership […]
Saskatoon police were called out to a convenience store robbery early Monday morning in the west end of the city. Officers responded to the incident at 2:45 a.m. on the 200 block of Pendygrasse Road. A man in his mid-twenties wearing a Nintendo DS shirt, dark grey pants and a green bandana entered the store and […]
The Government of Saskatchewan is hosting the Attorneys General from the provinces across the country that are fighting the Trudeau Carbon Tax. Saskatchewan was the first province to stand up to the Trudeau government’s ineffective, job killing Carbon Tax as an infringement on provincial authority under the Constitution. The Government of Saskatchewan was supported by […]
The Saskatoon Police Service responded to a call shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Sunday regarding a man who was stabbed. Police were dispatched to the 700 block of Avenue J South where they found a 33-year-old man suffering from a stab wound. He was transported to hospital in stable condition. In a statement from SPS, […]
Environment Canada has placed a number of regions in the province under a wind warning to wrap up the weekend. The cities of Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Yorkton and other areas will see a gradual increase in wind speed starting this morning. According to the weather agency, wind gusts could reach 90 kilometres […]
Police in Saskatoon were dispatched to a park near downtown Friday night after receiving a call of a man suffering from a stab wound. After the call at 9:39 p.m., police arrived at Leif Erikson to find an injured 29-year-old man. He was immediately transported to hospital and was treated for non-life threatening injuries. Following […]
