Yorkton This Week

Additional 4,814 doses of COVID-19 vaccine given

The Yorkton Film Festival will once again be a virtual affair in 2021.

Parkland College awarded $48,200 to 50 students from across the region in this year’s Internal Scholarships. Combined with Entrance Scholarships handed out in the fall, Parkland College awarded more than $77,000 in the 2020-21 academic year.

Paul van Westendorp, B.C.’s top beekeeper, will be busy this summer searching for and destroying the subterranean nests of the Asian giant hornet.

Normally Lumsden’s arty A-framed Centennial Hall is bustling with weddings, karate and seniors getting in their workouts. Thanks to the fickle, deadly coronavirus, the building is to remain empty, cleaving a growing hole in the town’s budget.

Canada’s governments should require that all the infrastructure they fund should be made with materials sourced from low-carbon industrial processes, says a new report.

Renewed energy is supercharging the lithium mining industry in Manitoba as the push for action on climate change continues to pick up speed around the world.

. . . And understand lifelong impacts of Zika virus

A PhD student from the University of Manitoba wants to engage with farmers from Haliburton County to gather information for a study he’s working on focusing on the use of cover crops across Ontario.

People eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine need not worry if their provincial health cards are expired, according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA).