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More bat encounters raise rabies concerns
Health officials say Saskatoon has seen a sharp rise in bat encounters this year, and several of those bats have tested positive for rabies.Dr. Simon Kapaj, medical health officer with the Saskatchewa...
Oct 05, 2025
USask researchers receive $1.5 million for rapid response wildfire research
Researchers will have more money to study the effects of wildfire damage on First Nations and Mtis communities.The Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Institute of Indigenous Peoples Health...
Oct 05, 2025
‘What we need is hope’: NDP Leader Carla Beck addresses delegates at party convention
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck has the highest post-election leadership review in party history.The NDP convention at TCU Place in Saskatoon this weekend brought in over 600 delegates, the largest...
Oct 05, 2025
Indigenous Peoples grapple with claims downplaying the history of residential schools
OTTAWA - As Indigenous Peoples marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this week, they also had to confront a persistent problem: public figures claiming the history of residential school...
Oct 04, 2025
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe backs Alberta on pipeline plans
Building a pipeline from Alberta to B.C.'s northwest coast could be the "most significant generationally important infrastructure that we could consider as Canadians."Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe ma...
Oct 04, 2025
SUMA returns from Ottawa in hopes to revive ICIP
With representatives from all over the province joining the trip, members of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) were in Ottawa for three days this past week. The purpose of the t...
Oct 04, 2025
Canada Post union says latest contract offer is step backwards
The union representing Canada Post workers says the Crown corporation is taking a major step backwards with its latest contract offers.In a statement released Friday, the union says it is disappointed...
Oct 04, 2025
Hamas agrees to release all Israeli hostages with conditions
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Hamas must agree to a proposed peace deal by Sunday evening, threatening an even greater military onslaught nearly two years into the war spar...
Oct 03, 2025
Saskatchewan's first snow of the season could arrive Monday
Over the course of this weekend, a weather system travelling into Saskatchewan from the west is expected to hit the West Central Saskatchewan area near the Battlefords, then up to the northern area of...
Oct 03, 2025
Canada Post tables new offers to striking postal workers
OTTAWA - Canada Post's latest contract offers to striking postal workers has many of the same terms as its "final offers" in May but removes a signing bonus and now has provisions related to the job c...
Oct 03, 2025