Humboldt

Environment Canada is issuing the following advisory.

A tornado warning for South Central Saskatchewan is currently in effect.

Extra care and attention should be exercised in and around the following localities:

• Aberdeen
• Alvena
• Wakaw
• Vonda
• Bruno
• Colonsay
• Viscount

Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm that is possibly producing a tornado.

Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible.

It’s a seller’s market right now in Saskatchewan for homes. There are fewer homes for sale and yet sales were on the rise in July across the province, according to the Saskatchewan Realtors Association’s monthly report.

It is the time of year when black bears have started to look for extra food ahead of hibernation. With fall just around the corner, bears are in a period called hypophagia, where they can eat upwards of 20,000 calories of food a day. As they look for extra nourishment, they are more visible, sometimes venturing from their more familiar locales in search of food.  

The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country.

The mobile reporting app would use biometrics to confirm a person's identity and record their location data when they use the app to check in. Documents obtained through access-to-information indicate that the CBSA has proposed such an app as far back as 2021. 

A spokesperson confirmed that an app called ReportIn will be launched this fall.

Premier Scott Moe toured several key Humboldt agencies and organizations during a visit on Friday August 16th. Along with him was Deputy Premier and Humboldt-Watrous MLA Donna Harpauer, and Humboldt-Watrous Sask Party nominee Raquel Hilbert. 

The trio's visits allowed them an inside look at Humboldt's recent growth and its potential for additional expansion with the BHP Jansen mine project, alongside other business and industry developments.  

The type of mpox spreading rapidly through several African countries could arrive in Canada, where that strain hasn't appeared before, Canadian experts say.  

The detection of clade I mpox in Sweden in someone who had travelled to an affected African country is a "harbinger" of broader spread, said Dr. Fahad Razak, an internal medicine specialist and epidemiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. 

The Public Health Agency of Sweden said Thursday it is the first case of clade I mpox to be diagnosed outside the African continent. 

Week eight of Name That Tune was a gamble for Steven.  

He was the first with the correct song scoring him a $50.00 Humboldt Sobeys gift card and chose to risk it all. Bold move, however, it didn't work out in his favour and he lost it all. 

Listen to the replay below.

You could be next to play tune in Friday mornings to hear the song of the day.

The Cool to School contest is winding down, and we're excited to announce our last early bird winner!

Congratulations to Jenn who has won a $50 gift certificate to Office Experts Office Pro, just in time for back-to-school shopping.

Don't worry if your name wasn't drawn this time—everyone who enters stays in the running for the grand prize: two $200 shopping sprees! 

The Canadian Entrepreneurs' Incentive program is undergoing some changes, but agriculture groups say that's not enough to help out farmers.

That's meant to help out small business owners with a tax break, but that's been out of reach for many farmers.

Kyle Larkin, the Executive Director at the Grain Growers of Canada, says now that's been changed but it may not be enough.

With strike action looming on the horizon railways in Canada are likely to be stopped next week.

CN and CPKC are both set to lock out workers on the 22nd, the date that a possible strike was set for by the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

Vice president of grain for CN Rail David Przednowec says that the current labour situation is taking up a bulk of the current conversation in the industry.