Estevan

The Souris Valley Museum invites all families to their "Spooky Museum" this Saturday, October 19th.

The fun takes place from 1-3 at the Museum on highway 39 west. Come decked out in your best Halloween costume and be prepared to have a good time. Lots of Halloween games and crafts for everyone including cotton candy for $3 to show your support for the Museum.

Melanie Memory and Briana Robinson from the Museum joined Lyle on the Big Breakfast Show this morning on Country106-ONE.

The Estevan Bruins have been on a hotter streak since the start of the season, with the team avoiding a regulation loss throughout their games last week.

That included a 5-3 win against Humboldt on Wednesday, a 4-3 shootout loss to the Kindersley Klippers on Friday, and a comeback win against the Klippers Saturday 4-2.

Representatives of a British Columbia Sikh temple whose president was shot dead last year, as well as the Sikh independence group he was involved in, say their communities won't feel safe until India's consulates in Vancouver and Toronto are shut down.

That's after the Canadian government expelled six Indian diplomats, including the high commissioner, and the RCMP announced on Monday it had evidence of their alleged involvement in crimes including homicide and extortion targeting the so-called Khalistan independence movement.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Spokesperson for the RCMP, Keely Grasser, says it’s important to be aware of circulating cybercrimes. She notes several common ones they encounter, beginning with phishing scams. 

“Phishing scams are when scammers use emails, text messages or social media posts or messages to send what appear to be legitimate websites but when you click on these links, it could lead you to a compromised website or to a website that may urge you to input some of your personal information which then could be stolen.” 

Canada's emergency preparedness minister says the passengers of an Air India flight that landed in Iqaluit due to a bomb threat remain stuck there, and he has approved a request for the military to help them.

Harjit Sajjan posted on X late Tuesday that the airline "hasn't found a solution" after the plane landed in Nunavut's capital with 211 passengers on board earlier in the day and that they are "stranded."

The provincial election is just a couple of weeks away with candidates looking to make their case, including here in the southeast.

In the Cannington constituency, Dianne Twietmeyer is running for the Saskatchewan NDP.

She's hoping to break into an area that's not traditionally favoured by her party in order to help those southeast residents.

In a lab at the University of Saskatchewan, the search is on for a drug that will eliminate a protein found in cancer cells, and ultimately kill the cancer due to lack of iron.

Oleg Dmitriev, a professor at USask, says there is a protein that appears at high levels in cancer cells which regulates iron within them. Cancer cells require this protein, called MEMO1, in order to invade healthy tissue, so the team is currently screening for a drug that will target and eliminate the protein.

Dmitriev says iron is vital to all living things, however, it has a ‘dark side’.

September was a record month for CN when it comes to grain movement in Western Canada.

CN's Vice President of Grain David Przednowek is pleased with the numbers considering they are still working out some of the kinks from the Grain Workers Strike at the Port of Vancouver.

The provincial election has seen a total of 243 candidates as the deadline to file paperwork for a nomination passed on Saturday.

Across the 61 constituents of the province, the number of candidates running is above the 236 candidates in the 2020 Provincial Election, but less than the record 268 candidates in the 2016 Provincial Election.

The chances of a half-percentage point interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada became more likely Tuesday after Statistics Canada reported annual inflation fell to 1.6 per cent in September.

Economist Tu Nguyen of accounting and consultancy firm RSM Canada said she had expected the inflation rate to remain close to the central bank's two per cent target, where it was in August, for a few more months.

"This is one of the instances where I'm happy to be wrong," she said.