Saskatchewan

Wildfires
"This is the time for all hands on deck in this province," says NDP leader Carla Beck
The Saskatchewan NDP are voicing their thoughts surrounding the province's wildfire fight.We're not even in June yet and the 2025 wildfire season has already been devastating. There have been 207 active wildfires in the province this year, that's 40 more than last year.As of May 30th, there are 15 active fires, 7 of wh...
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Where will they go?
Housing evacuees may become more challenging as more are displaced by wildfires
Frustration is growing among those evacuated from their homes due to northern wildfires. Weldon McCallum is the emergency evacuation coordinator for the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation working with the Canadian Red Cross and the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA), but he says processing times to receive services fro...
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Charges upgraded
Charges against Shoal Lake woman upgraded to second degree murder
Charges against a woman accused of killing a child in the community of Shoal Lake, east of Carrot River, have been upgraded from manslaughter to second-degree murder. The RCMP announced Friday that after more investigation and after talking to Public Prosecutions, the manslaughter charge against Karrena Young will be w...
May 30, 2025
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Shifting winds
Friday wildfire update; smoke hampering firefighting efforts
The number of wildfires burning in the province dropped overnight from 17 to 16. A fire burning near Christopher Lake was contained and is no longer considered a wildfire of note issued in the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency's (SPSA) daily wildfire bulletin.The massive Shoe Fire has now charred 305,000 hectares and i...
May 30, 2025
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Canada

Rallies in support of Canada Post workers scheduled across the country
Rallies in support of Canada Post workers are set to take place across the country today amid ongoing labour tensions between the employer and the union representing roughly 55,000 staff. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers announced the rallies on it...
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Quebec to seek leave to appeal school board reform ruling to Supreme Court of Canada
MONTREAL - Quebec will ask the Supreme Court of Canada for permission to appeal lower court rulings that found a provincial law abolishing school boards violates English-language minority education rights. A spokesperson for Quebec's justice minister c...
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More evacuations ordered as crews battle wildfires burning in Manitoba
FLIN FLON - More people in northern Manitoba were told to leave their homes Saturday as wildfires continued to threaten communities and send thick smoke into the air The roughly 600 residents of Cranberry Portage were placed under a mandatory evacuatio...
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Son of woman who inspired assisted dying law chooses to die on his own terms
OTTAWA - Price Carter is planning to die this summer. The 68-year-old has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He knows it will take his life eventually; before it does, he intends to die on his own terms with his family at his side. "I was t...
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'A conglomeration of acquired goodies': N.B. man with cancer sells stuff to declutter
FREDERICTON - It was a complete shock when Gerry Carroll was diagnosed with cancer and was given months to live. The retired Riverview, N.B., sales representative said he had gone to see his family doctor in December 2023 for what he described as a "g...
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Ostriches at B.C. farm have version of avian flu not seen elsewhere in Canada: CFIA
The type of avian flu infection present at a B.C. ostrich farm where a cull is planned is a mutation not seen elsewhere in Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday. It said the version includes a genotype that has been associated with a ...
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