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
Police in B.C. say suspect known as 'Mr. X' in 1985 Air India bombing is dead
Police in British Columbia say a suspect known as "Mr. X" who is believed to have helped test a bomb before the 1985 Air India terror attack has died before facing charges. The statement from the RCMP's Pacific Region comes as families commemorate the ...
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Canada starts busing citizens out of Israel days after allies began
OTTAWA - Ottawa has started evacuating Canadians from Israel days after telling them to find their own way to neighbouring countries. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says bus services started this morning from Tel Aviv and the West Bank to Jordan....
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Mark Carney names Kirsten Hillman chief negotiator with U.S.
OTTAWA - Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman will take on the role of top negotiator for Canada as the country seeks a new trade and security pact with the Donald Trump administration. Prime Minister Mark Carney's office confirms Hillman ha...
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Newly launched Access to Information review is flawed, transparency advocates say
OTTAWA - A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates. The Treasury Board Secretariat announced the government review, which takes place every five years, in a news ...
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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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