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Governor General Mary Simon was formally installed on Monday morning at the Senate of Canada Building in Ottawa that incorporated traditional Inuktitut in the two-hour long ceremony.

Harold Shire of Battleford is a great-great-grandfather again (see the related story). Here he is in a five generation photo with Patricia Beeching, great-grandmother, of St. Albert, Alta., Wade Beeching, grandfather, of Beaumont, Alta.

The friendly rivalry between Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark and his counterpart in Regina, Mayor Sandra Masters, resumed Monday with the former losing the first bet.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority is offering a wide array of opportunities to access COVID-19 vaccines comig up. All clinics are offering the Pfizer vaccine. Drive thru: Finning Cat 391 Yellowhead Highway 16 west of Battlefords 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A lawyer for a man accused of murder is filing an application to have his client deemed Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) by reason of a mental disorder.

COVID-19 outbreak causing concern

A Saskatchewan woman who stole back her freedom after being convicted for a murder she says she didn’t commit has been arrested in B.C. Nerissa Quewezance was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant since spring 2020 for parole violations.

On July 24, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Big River RCMP responded to a report of a single vehicle rollover on Highway 942, 2.5 kilometres north of the junction with Highway 55.

An estimated $325,000 was lost in Sunday morning’s structure fire at the 3400 block of 33rd Street West in Saskatoon. Fire investigators concluded their inquiry and the cause of the fire was undetermined.

Vaccines Reported An additional 2,542 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 1,388,330.