Saskatoon hosts first national swim competition
Saskatoon is hosting nearly 500 swimmers from across Canada, the United States and Great Britain…
Saskatoon hosts first national swim competition
Saskatoon is hosting nearly 500 swimmers from across Canada, the United States and Great Britain for the 2025 Speedo Canadian Masters Swimming Championships at the Shaw Centre. It’s the first time the city, and the Saskatoon Goldfins Swim Club, have played host on the national stage. “Just having the presence of a national meet here…
‘It’s a good cause’: Free lemonade stand gets Saskatoon kids involved in charity work
Two Saskatoon sixth graders spent their Saturday fundraising for the children’s hospital thanks to a unique fundraising tool. “We’re doing a lemonade stand to raise money for the children’s hospital…to just help children get better,” 11-year-old Nickiya Froese said. Robin Bellamy and his wife have been lending out all of their supplies for mobile barbecue…
Manitoba Museum paleontologist helps in discovery of 506-million-year-old predator
Paleontologists with the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum have made a remarkable discovery—an extinct, moth-like predator that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. On Wednesday, the museums announced the discovery of the Mosura fentoni, which lived in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia 506 million years ago. “Making one of these discoveries is…
Why Canada hosts more old passenger jets than any other country — by far
MONTREAL — Each morning, travellers and cargo take off from Montreal’s Trudeau airport for a 1,600-kilometre flight to Puvirnituq in northern Quebec aboard a nearly 50-year-old Air Inuit plane. This seasoned Boeing 737 previously cruised the skies above Europe and Central Africa for now-defunct carriers in France, Gabon and the Congo. But now its trips…