Category Archives: Saskatchewan
PAWSitive Support helping inmates through dog therapy
Prison-based animal programs are becoming more popular in North America, providing benefits for both the animals and the inmates.At the Saskatchewan SPCA general meeting Tuesday, the founders of PAWSi...
Sep 25, 2019 Resting after an evening at the prison with PAWSitive Support. (Anna-Belle and Subie's Adventures/Facebook)
Sask. gov’t moving up timeline on rooftop solar decision
Amid frustrations from customers and the solar power industry, the minister responsible for SaskPower has committed to moving up the timeline on a new net metering program.Last week, SaskPower announc...
Sep 23, 2019 Environment Minister Dustin Duncan file photo. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Cole Bay man charged in fatal hit and run
A 52-year-old man is dead after he was struck by vehicle on Highway 965 near Canoe Narrows. According to an RCMP media release, Beavual RCMP responded to a report of a pedestrian being struck by a veh...
Sep 23, 2019 Beauval RCMP continue to investigate a fatal hit and run near Canoe Narrows. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Sask. to make change to minimum wage on Oct. 1
Saskatchewan's minimum wage is set to increase on Oct. 1.It's to go up by 26 cents per hour to $11.32 per hour. The change - the 11th in the province since 2007 - was announced in June."Our government...
Sep 23, 2019 (file photo/CJME News Staff)
Trudeau finds friendly Liberal crowd at Saskatoon town hall, apologizes again for ‘brownface’ photos
Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau made his first stop in Saskatchewan on the federal campaign trail on Thursday evening, hosting a town hall in Saskatoon amid a cloud of controversy.The event, held ...
Sep 20, 2019 (File photo/CJME News Staff)
Riders team up with Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation on new lottery
As the province gives so much to Rider Nation, the organization felt it was important to give back. The Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation and the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation have team...
Sep 20, 2019 The Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in Saskatoon. (supplied/The Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation)
Third Trudeau racist makeup incident emerges
Two images of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau in brown or black makeup have emerged in the last 12 hours, and now Global News is reporting a third instance.The broadcaster says it has obtained an exclus...
Sep 19, 2019 Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau reacts as he makes a statement in regards to photo coming to light of himself from 2001 wearing "brownface" during a scrum on his campaign plane in Halifax, N.S., on Wednesday, September 18, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Solar energy company critical of SaskPower suspending net metering program
The president of a solar company in Saskatchewan said SaskPower's decision to suspend its net metering program in the near future kneecaps its ability to meet demands for renewable energy."We've got t...
Sep 19, 2019 (File photo/CJME News Staff)
Sask. gov’t outlines offer to province’s teachers
The Government Trustee Bargaining Committee (GTBC) has offered a three-year contract to the province's teachers.In a media release Tuesday, the committee - which comprises representatives from the Gov...
Sep 18, 2019 Education Minister Gordon Wyant discusses the province's contract offer to the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation on Sept. 17, 2019. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
North Battleford business pre-approved to build cannabis facility, produce hemp
North Battleford's Envirosafe Chemicals Canada (Envirosafe) has announced it received approval from Health Canada to embark on two new projects. It has been pre-approved to build a cannabis cultivatio...
Sep 18, 2019 Envirosafe president and CEO James Davey seen on Oct. 17, 2018, the day cannabis was legalized in Canada. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)