Yorkton This Week

Thirteen in hospital

2020 has been quite a year, and the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society, like almost every organization, has had to cancel events that we were eagerly anticipating! Our Annual Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Show has been cancelled for August 2020

Saskatoon – On July 20, the Saskatchewan Liberal Party announced their first slate of candidates for the 2020 provincial election, with three people taking a run at seats in Saskatoon and Regina.

When COVID-19 caused a near province wide shutdown, things very quickly changed at the Boys and Girls Club of Yorkton.

COVID-19 sent many businesses into tailspins and temporary closures. But for a few, such as Denson Commercial Food Equipment in Yorkton, the pandemic opened up new opportunities.

One might watch a YouTube video of Tala Tootoosis showing how to make a ribbon skirt and assume she had always been surrounded by culture and had lived a life of ceremony since childhood.

Researchers used the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to improve their technique to convert CO 2 into ethanol, a valuable chemical that can be used in a variety of industrial applications.

University of Regina researchers find contribute to high levels of methylmercury in fish

Most of the time when the world moves to change one thing, and its impact tends to ripple into areas that whether unexpected, or simply ignored, changes things in ways which may not be the best.

Prolific local author Damian Shishkin has a new book on the shelf: Revelations 2520: The Broken and the Damned.