Sunday Wildfire update
Shoe Fire now 45% contained in latest wildfire update
There are still five out of the 21 wildfires around the province that are still considered uncontained, but the latest update from the SPSA is showing more promising numbers. Rains sweeping through Saskatchewan in the last week have helped the situation up north.Starting with the Shoe Fire east of Candle Lake, while it...
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Red Pheasant Designer
Roughriders unveil new colours for Indigenous logo
Artist Chris Chipak of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation has designed a new Saskatchewan Roughriders Indigenous logo which was revealed Saturday for Indigenous Peoples Day.Chipak added new colours for the 2025 season to the original all-green version of the logo, announced in September 2024, that was also designed by Chipak...
Jun 22, 2025
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Saskatchewan
Meadow Lake NIPD
Meadow Lake celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day
It was a cold and windy day in Meadow Lake but for those who attended the North West Friendship Centre's Indigenous Peoples Day event, the enthusiastic energy and smiling faces were enough to warm the crowd. "It helps with building relationships right and reconciliation," said Kyla Wapass, mental health thera...
Jun 22, 2025
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Heavy Rain expected
Rainfall warnings issued for west central Saskatchewan this weekend
It's going to be very wet in parts of Saskatchewan this weekend.Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has issued a rainfall warning for west-central areas of the province from the Alberta border through to Kindersley, north to Kerrobert and east to Davidson.Chris Stammers, ECCC meteorologist, said a low pressure...
Jun 21, 2025
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Twisters
'Tornado outbreak': Environment Canada looking into eight 'likely' tornadoes in Sask.
Thursday ended with a twist in Saskatchewan, with Environment Canada investigating eight "likely tornadoes" in the province.On Friday morning, meteorologist Eric Dykes said the tornadoes are not confirmed yet, as "We could call it a tornado outbreak," he said."We're using the term 'likely' here...
Jun 20, 2025
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Bomber pilot
Family of downed bomber pilot visits crash site 70 years later
They saw the plane first. The North American B-25 Mitchell Bomber was a smoking, flaming mass of aluminum, and it was circling above the hay fields where a man and his two sons had been harvesting near the Beaver River on that summer day in 1955. Three air cadets escaped the burning aircraft via parachutes with time bo...
Jun 20, 2025
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Canada
Third day of searching for four missing in Quebec medical helicopter crash
MONTREAL - Police are spending a third day searching for four people who went missing after a medical transport helicopter crashed on Quebec's North Shore. The Airmedic helicopter crashed into a lake late Friday near Natashquan, Que., just over 1,000 k...
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Canada's next national census set for May 2026
OTTAWA - The next Canadian census will be held in May 2026. The federal cabinet has issued an order fixing the date for the census and the questions it will ask. The last census was held in 2021 and was the first to be held during a pandemic. It collec...
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Convicted killer, 62, escapes from Archambault Institution in Quebec
MONTREAL - Correctional Service Canada says a convicted killer has escaped from a prison in Quebec's Laurentians region. Staff discovered Richard Plourde was missing from his minimum security unit at about 11 p.m. Sunday. The 62-year-old was serving a ...
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B.C. professor trapped in Iran says Canada has offered 'almost nothing' to help
A British Columbia professor who is trapped in Iran says he's been told by officials there's "almost nothing" the Canadian government can do to help him and his family. Simon Fraser University engineering professor Simon Jannesar says in an email that ...
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Orcas use kelp tools to groom and bond off B.C.'s coast, study suggests
In pricey spas, kelp facials and body wraps can set the esthetically inclined human back hundreds of dollars. But in the Salish Sea off British Columbia, southern resident killer whales are also using the sea plants for what scientists suspect are groo...
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In the news today: Carney in Brussels for EU-Canada summit
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney in Brussels for EU-Canada summit Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Belgium today, where he will visit a military cemetery before meeting with European Union...
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