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How to keep kids safe: Preventing impaired driving tragedies in Sask.
Drinking and driving is known as a taboo - yet still 32 people die every year in Saskatchewan due to it. Recently, Brittany Barry, a 32-year-old from the RM of Blucher, mother of two, was driving on h...
Apr 13, 2025 A vehicle driving unreasonably fast could be an indicator for impaired driving according to SGI. (Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan/Twitter)
Organizations promote safe driving during the holidays
The holidays are a time to be with loved ones, but its also a time where impaired driving increases. Operation Red Nose, a volunteer chauffeur service, hopes to change this. It's a program that helps ...
Dec 22, 2024 MADD Saskatoon and Operation Red Nose want to make sure you get home safely this holiday season (MADD Canada/Facebook)
Regina Police Services adds new Mobile Testing Unit to toolbox
The Regina Police Service (RPS) announced its new Mobile Testing Unit (MTU) - a van that can test for impaired driving at any location - just in time for the holidays. Corporal Ross Kauk said there we...
Dec 20, 2024
Cries of racism fill courtroom as judge stays impaired driving charge
Tears and cries filled a packed Saskatoon provincial courtroom on Friday as Judge Jane Wooten stayed the case of a woman who struck and killed a nine year old girl on a crosswalk in Saskatoon in 2021,...
Dec 13, 2024 Supporters of 9-year-old Baeleigh Maurice, who was killed in a marked crosswalk in 2021, held signs outside a provincial courtroom in Saskatoon on Friday, Dec. 12, 2024. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Impaired driving charge in Kennedy case stayed due to delays
The court case of a woman accused of hitting and killing a nine-year-old Saskatoon girl in a crosswalk has been stayed due to delays. Taylor Ashley Kennedy was charged with impaired driving causing de...
Dec 13, 2024 Taylor Kennedy leaves court after a previous appearance. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Cannabis suspensions high in Sask. Labour weekend traffic stops
Saskatchewan RCMP stopped more than 4,725 vehicles on the province's roads over the Labour Day long weekend last week for safety checks. The stops - on Highway 16 west of Saskatoon, on Highway 1 east ...
Sep 08, 2024
July proves the most deadly month for impaired driving, SGI
When Adam Smith showed up to open his brewery's doors on Thursday, he said he was totally fine seeing a customer's vehicle parked outside overnight. "That makes me super happy to see that someone came...
Jun 29, 2024
Cannabis confusion: Sask. drivers grapple with zero-tolerance law
For many people, cannabis offers the relief they need to get a good night's sleep, calm anxiety or relieve pain. But an increase in roadside testing in Saskatchewan has left many questioning how to co...
May 09, 2024 Business owner Brianna Dodd has stopped using cannabis to manage her nighttime anxiety and insomnia. (Alex Brown/650 CKOM)
Judge in Kennedy trial to rule on admissibility of statements to police in June
Saskatoon Judge Jane Wootten is expected to rule in June on the admissibility of statements 29-year-old Taylor Ashley Kennedy made to police before she was arrested more than two years ago. Kennedy's ...
Apr 24, 2024 Brandy McClary and Rochelle Cook outside Saskatoon Provincial Court on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Sask. mother, FSIN want longer sentence for impaired driver who hit son
Darnell Fineday suffered life-altering injuries when he was struck by an impaired driver at the intersection of Hart Road and 22nd Street last April. Now, the 28-year-old from the Mosquito First Natio...
Apr 10, 2024 "I don't ever want to see another mother go through what I've been through, it's very hard," said Charlene Fineday (left). Her son Darnell Fineday (right) was struck by an impaired driver in Saskatoon last year. (FSIN/Submitted)
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