Truly Alive Youth and Family Foundation to raise money for senior transportation services
To help Saskatoon seniors access services and community events, the Truly Alive Youth and Family Foundation is partnering with the Saskatoon Nutana Rotary Club to host an African Heritage Night fundraiser. Anthony Olusula, Executive Director of Alive Youth and Family Foundation, says the Black-serving charity has senio...
Apr 27, 2024
Leave Well Campaign raises awareness on benefits of organ donation
More than 4000 Canadians are sitting on an organ waitlist, and over 250 of them will die while waiting. That from Kirstin Theis Novak, an Organ Tissue Donor Coordinator with the Saskatchewan Health Authority. To raise awareness and educate the public about organ donation, several health organizations are promoting the ...
Apr 27, 2024
New mammography equipment Saskatoon City Hospital to provide better imaging
The Executive Director of Medical Imaging for the Saskatoon Health Region says it wouldn't have been possible to get new equipment at the Breast Health Centre, certainly not as quickly as they did, without the Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation and its donors. The SHA and the Foundation partnered to bring in a new mamm...
Apr 27, 2024
Saskatoon to mark National Day of Mourning for workers injured on the job with ceremony
April 28 is the National Day of Mourning for workers injured on the job. The Saskatoon & District Labour Council says 29 workers died in Saskatchewan in 2023 because of their work. As well, the SDLC says in Canada, almost 1,000 workers die each year because of unsafe work. The Labour Council says 2024 is the 20th a...
Apr 27, 2024
COVID and Influenza cases are on the decline as temperatures rise
The number of COVID and influenza cases are falling as the temperature begins to rise. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health reports 108 COVID positive lab tests in the two-week period ending last Saturday---well below the 156 over the previous two weeks. 37 patients were treated in hospital for COVID, including five who...
Apr 27, 2024
New job action to begin May 1st for Community Service Workers at LutherCare Communities
Community Service Workers who are members of SEIU-West at LutherCare Communities Group Homes have announced job action to begin May 1st. Earlier this week the union announced if there wasn't a new offer on the table by last Wednesday at 6 p.m. some services would be withdrawn. A news release from SEIU-West says the job...
Apr 26, 2024
Saskatchewan's ferries gradually opening for the season
As of Friday afternoon, six of Saskatchewan's ferries are open for the season. The Highway Hotline says Clarkboro, Estuary, Hague, Lemsford, Saint Laurent and Wingard Ferries are open while the rest remain closed. Typically, the ferries operate from April to November, but it depends on the weather and whether the cross...
Apr 26, 2024
Second man charged after body found in Moose Mountain RM
The woman whose body was discovered in a rural area in the RM of Moose Mountain on Thursday has been identified as 28-year-old Brianna Hayes of Oxbow. Carlyle RCMP received a report about a potential homicide on Wednesday, and then the Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes investigation began at the Oxbow landfill, but when n...
Apr 26, 2024
Thirteen-year-old missing since April 23rd
The Prince Albert RCMP has released the picture of a 13-year-old girl, who was last seen on Tuesday evening on Wahpeton First Nation. Leeanne Waditaka is known to travel to Prince Albert, but her current whereabouts is unknown. She is about 4 feet tall and about 75 pounds with brown eyes, and has dark brown and red hai...
Apr 26, 2024
Prince Albert Grand Council and SPSA develop educational wildfire prevention campaign
In an effort to prevent human-caused fires in northern Saskatchewan this year, the Prince Albert Grand Council and the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency have developed a new educational campaign. The initiative entails series of educational materials, including radio segments accessible in both English and the local la...
Apr 26, 2024