Keira Miller, Saskatoon Media Group

In an effort to understand the challenges caregivers face every day, as well as expand their support systems, the University of Saskatchewan partnered with the Saskatoon Council on Aging to conduct a survey.

Steven Hall, a registered nurse and one of the online survey’s creators, says it reached 355 caregivers in diverse communities across the province.

In an effort to understand the challenges caregivers face every day, as well as expand their support systems, the University of Saskatchewan partnered with the Saskatoon Council on Aging to conduct a survey.

Steven Hall, a registered nurse and one of the online survey’s creators, says it reached 355 caregivers in diverse communities across the province.

A research project at the University of Saskatchewan, if successful, could lead to less waste in the potash and fertilizer industry.

USask professor Lifeng Zhang says when potash comes into contact with moisture, it forms into large clumps. These clumps can no longer be used in the industry, and many of them end up getting wasted.

“So, as they form the clumps, they basically cannot be used directly, so either they need to be recycled or be wasted. That is what the current challenge is for using potash fertilizer.”

Phase Two of a project that aims to improve safety, sightlines, and highway quality is now at the halfway point of completion.

The Province’s Highway 5 Improvement Project began last June, and Phase Two is expected to wrap up in summer of 2025.

Once complete, drivers will notice new shoulder widening, resurfacing, and one set of new passing lanes around the St. Denis area.

Travis Hryniuk, Reeve of the rural municipality of Grant, says getting the highway widened will, hopefully, enhance safety and prevent potential accidents.

The seemingly endless rainfall the province was getting took some time off last week, and paired with increased heat, this has accelerated crop advancement and allowed haying operations to move forward.

Crop Extension Specialist from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture Meghan Rosso says fall cereals are 6 per cent ahead of schedule, 90 per cent normal and 4 per cent behind. Pulse crops are 4 per cent ahead, 78 per cent normal, and 18 per cent behind. Spring cereals and oilseeds are still showing to be the furthest behind in their stages of development.

Canadian cities are facing both increased water demand and a strained capacity to store wastewater, so a researcher at the University of Saskatchewan is exploring the option of reusing wastewater and stormwater.

Dr. Kerry McPhedran recently received a five-year grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. With the money, he plans to host public engagement sessions and learn more about the public’s perception on wastewater reusage, as he believes the main thing that is keeping solutions like this from happening, is stigma.

s all of the province’s firefighting crews are actively engaged, the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says there is no capacity to take on additional fires, hence the fire ban issued Thursday morning.

The ban is for open-pit fires on Crown lands and provincial parks, provincial recreation sites and the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District. This includes fireworks. SPSA vice-president of operations Steve Roberts encourages other municipalities and communities to consider implementing fire bans, as well.

Every day in Saskatchewan, the STARS Air Ambulance flies about three missions, taking people in need of urgent medical care from their homes in rural and remote Saskatchewan to hospitals in larger centres.

Bonny Fortin was one of those patients. During the cesarian section for her fourth son, her iliac vein was severed, and she began losing blood rapidly.

“So, STARS was dispatched. They flew me from Swift Current to Regina where I had a specialist repair my vein, but in the meantime, if I didn’t have STARS, I am certain that I would have died.”

Canadian cities are facing both increased water demand and a strained capacity to store wastewater, so a researcher at the University of Saskatchewan is exploring the option of reusing wastewater and stormwater.

Dr. Kerry McPhedran recently received a five-year grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. With the money, he plans to host public engagement sessions and learn more about the public’s perception on wastewater reusage, as he believes the main thing that is keeping solutions like this from happening, is stigma.

Canadian cities are facing both increased water demand and a strained capacity to store wastewater, so a researcher at the University of Saskatchewan is exploring the option of reusing wastewater and stormwater.

Dr. Kerry McPhedran recently received a five-year grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. With the money, he plans to host public engagement sessions and learn more about the public’s perception on wastewater reusage, as he believes the main thing that is keeping solutions like this from happening, is stigma.