Weyburn

Canada Post says it has received strike notices from the union representing some 55,000 postal workers, with operations poised to shut down by the end of the week.

The Crown corporation says the union informed it that employees plan to hit the picket line starting Friday morning at midnight.

A work stoppage would affect millions of residents and businesses who typically receive more than two billion letters and roughly 300 million parcels a year via the service.

The Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division announced on Friday morning a new staffing addition for the next school year.

Mr. Tyson O'Dell will be joining the HFRCSSD as Vice Principal at St. Michael School in Weyburn, officially commencing on August 25th. O'Dell has served as one of the Vice Principals at Legacy Park Elementary School in Weyburn for the past four years.

"Mr. O'Dell comes to our division with a wealth of experience in the classroom as well as at the administration level," the division said in a press release.

Ryan Straschnitzki's life has been an open book since he was seriously injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, and his story is soon to be shown on TV.

The 26-year-old from Airdrie, Alta., was paralyzed from the chest down in 2018, when a semi-trailer ran a stop sign and barrelled into the path of the junior hockey team's bus in rural Saskatchewan. 

Sixteen people died and 13 were hurt.

Today is Victoria Day, the unofficial kick-off to summer, even if the weather isn't very summerlike. The traditions of Victoria Day have changed over the years, as the holiday has a history that is older than the country itself.

Prime Minister Mark Carney reaffirmed Canada's "steadfast and unwavering support" for Ukraine in his first meeting with the country's president on Saturday in Rome.

His meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy was one of several sitdowns with world leaders taking place in the Italian capital, where Carney — a devout Catholic — has travelled to attend the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV. The Prime Minister is making a concerted effort to meet with other G7 leaders ahead of the global summit Canada is hosting in Kananaskis, Alta., next month.

The seeding season was brought to a pause when a rainfall warning fell over the southeast, with 32 millimetres of rain falling from Wednesday to Friday.  

Tim Rosengren, who farms near Midale, says while seeding efforts have been delayed, the rain is not unwelcome.  

“The rain is pretty needed right now, crops are up good and mostly started germinating. Anything that was seeded in the past two, three weeks is up, so off to a good start.” 

Prime Minister Mark Carney had a brief audience with Pope Leo XIV Sunday afternoon at the Vatican following the pontiff's inaugural mass in St. Peter's Square.

Carney was seated in the second row with his wife Diana for the mass, in a section amongst other world leaders and heads of state.

The prime minister, who is a devout Catholic, was one of the few world leaders to kneel during the blessing of the Eucharist, and was spotted at two instances taking a picture of the Pope on his phone to mark the occasion — before the mass started and after it had concluded. 

Here's a look at some of the photographs the Discover Weyburn staff and community members captured throughout the week:

As the first Indigenous person ever to lead the federal department responsible for delivering services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis, Mandy Gull-Masty knows she has a daunting task ahead.

But the newly-appointed Indigenous services minister also knows what it's like to sit at both sides of the table — as a cabinet minister now and, until recently, as the grand chief of the political body representing 20,000 Cree people in northern Quebec.

With the arrival of May Long Weekend, many Weyburnites are looking to spend some time in their yard and their garden. However, local garden guru and Sask Polytech’s Ag and Food Production Program Head Sherri Roberts says we may need to hold off a little bit longer.  

“Mother Nature may put a dent in that,” Roberts said in a conversation with Country 106 Morning Announcer Dara Currie. “You really want to be looking at what the weather forecast is.”