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SaskPower crews have been dispatched to determine the cause of an unplanned outage that began early this morning.

The outage, the cause and repair time of which has yet to be determined, is impacting customers north of Central Butte to Douglas Provincial Park and the surrounding rural areas.

MOOSE JAW, Sask. – The Moose Jaw Warriors have hired alumni Adam Evanoff as the organization’s goaltending coach. 

“We are excited to announce Adam Evanoff as our new goaltending coach,” said General Manager Jason Ripplinger. “Adam will bring enthusiasm and a positive attitude to our organization. We look forward to watching Adam grow in his new position.”

Evanoff, from Penticton, British Columbia, played with the Moose Jaw Warriors from 2017 to 2020 before finishing his WHL career with the Victoria Royals.

Team Saskatchewan has added four more medals to the count at this year's Canada Summer Games! Yesterday Nathan Pinno threw 16.48 metres to secure a silver medal in the men's shot put. In the evening, David Lipton scored 421 points to land a silver medal of his own in the men's para shot put.

Divers Lila Stewart and Isa Koop captured cold and silver in the Women's Artistic Dive event, after five dives Stewart was atop the standings with a score 221.70 points, Koop's final score was 198.15.

The Taste of Summer Charity BBQ presented by Fountain Tire returns today! And this week, all the money raised will be donated to the Square One Community Inc.!

Lunch is only $5 and includes a hot dog or hamburger from Fellinger & Sons Meats, with chips and water.

The BBQ runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at our office, 1704 Main Street North.

Today is the final day of bidding in the Discover Moose Jaw Online Auction!

There are 1,298 items up for grabs with a total retail value of $173,357. The auction will start closing at 11:30 a.m. with a different item closing every 12 seconds until the final item closes at 4:49:24 p.m.

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The Government of Saskatchewan announced new training that will expand the services pharmacists can offer. 

The training allows pharmacists to substitute medications under specific conditions. 

Pharmacists will be able to find alternative medications with the training under conditions approved by the Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals (SCPP).  

The Saskatchewan Roughriders are off to their best start to a CFL season since 2013, and it isn’t going unnoticed at local sports apparel stores like the Ultimate Fan Zone. 

Owner Billy Ravneck told Discover Moose Jaw that he’s definitely seen an increase in Saskatchewan Roughriders merchandise sales with a winning team on the field. 

Federated Co-operatives recently purchased the remaining shares in six agricultural retail outlets owned and operated by the Blair Family Group of Companies.

FCL Vice President of Energy & Ag Ron Healey, says the joint venture with the Blair family has been a positive, mutually beneficial partnership as Co-op continues to grow its ag retail footprint across Western Canada; now four local co-ops will take over the operation of the six Blair Crop Solution outlets.

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is returning to the House of Commons, having won his by-election in Battle River-Crowfoot.

Poilievre took 80.4 per cent of the vote in a running against 213 other candidates. 

Local MP Fraser Tolmie shared his reaction in a written statement:

“I want to congratulate Pierre for working hard to earn the trust of Battle River-Crowfoot constituents and securing a path back to the House of Commons so he can hold this government to account more effectively as Leader of the Opposition.”

Canada Post and the union representing postal workers are set to return to the bargaining table today.

Plans to rekindle talks late last week were delayed due to a lack of federal government mediators.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers claimed labour unrest at Air Canada was pulling attention from the postal service's dispute, which has stretched on for more than a year and a half.