Another large donation to build a new helipad at Nipawin hospital
SaskPower is donating $50,000 for the project, which was announced following the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018. Fundraising started last year with $600,000 of the $800,000 required already committed. There have been several large donations for the helipad over the past month, including $50,000 from the Town of Nip...
May 06, 2024
Drug trafficking investigation in Sandy Bay leads to four people facing charges
Four people have been arrested, two from Calgary and two from Sandy Bay in connection to an RCMP drug trafficking investigation in Sandy Bay. Police say a search warrant was executed at a home and officers seized about 16 grams of crack cocaine which had been divided into small packages, two air guns, a machete, traffi...
May 06, 2024
Police looking for suspect in connection with stabbing near downtown library
Saskatoon police are looking at video evidence following a stabbing in the 300 block of 23rd Street East around 2:50pm last Friday. A woman was taken to hospital with multiple stab wounds, but the injuries are believed not to be life-threatening. The suspect fled before officers arrived. After further investigation, o...
May 06, 2024
Homicide investigation continues after 18 years
It was 18 years ago that Saskatoon Police and paramedics responded to the 1600 block of 22nd Street West and found 23-year-old Hughie James Assiniboine dead. Emergency crews responded on the afternoon of May 5th, 2006. An autopsy confirmed he was the victim of a homicide. The investigation remains open. When it happene...
May 06, 2024
Official Opposition says Saskatchewan government redacted Stephen Harper's contract in Freedom of Information request
Since 2019, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his company Harper and Associates have been paid $240,00 a year by the Saskatchewan government. That was brought up by the Official Opposition during Question Period on Monday. Jobs and Economy Critic Aleana Young mentioned that over the last 11 months, exports have ...
May 06, 2024
Twenty-one Saskatchewan recipients of King Charles III Coronation Medals
King Charles III Coronation Medals were presented in Saskatchewan for the first time Monday. The inaugural provincial presentation of the medals was hosted by Lieutenant Governor Russ Mirasty on the first anniversary of His Majesty's Coronation which is May 6. Twenty-one individuals were awarded medals at this first me...
May 06, 2024
New synchrotron imaging technique refurbishes photographs once thought lost to time
Deciphering old and tarnished photographs may soon be easier thanks to an imaging technique developed at the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan. Professor T.K. Sham from Western University says using a tunable X-ray beamline at the CLS, he was able to reconstruct several daguerreotypes, the earlies...
May 06, 2024
Friday night firearms incident results in charges to a trio of 16-year-old males and a missing victim
Three 16-year-old males were arrested and have been charged with multiple firearms offences following an incident late Friday evening in Saskatoon's Erindale community. Saskatoon Police Service patrol officers responded to a report of an injured person in the 400 block of Kenderdine Road at about 11:30 p.m. on May 3. O...
May 06, 2024
50,000 square foot development in the works for southeast Saskatoon
Saskatoon's south Costco will have a new neighbour in the future. Spokesperson with the Islamic Association of Saskatchewan, Aqeel Wahab, says back in 1980 the Association bought 12 acres of land by what is now the south Costco, but at that point, would have just been a field a fair distance from the city. Fundraising ...
May 06, 2024
Alleged bribe taking by SaskTel employee
Of the two losses in the fourth quarter report from the Crown Investments Corporation, one included a SaskTel employee allegedly taking bribes to apply credits to customer accounts. According to the report, from September to December of 2023, the employee, using their own cell phone to conceal their actions, would make...
May 06, 2024