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Today, February 4th, marks 21 years since the social media network Facebook launched and since that time it has changed the way people communicate with one another. Facebook has allowed people the ability to endlessly message with friends and family, it’s allowed people to post anything they want without fact checking, and it’s given people […]

(Photo by Ariel Haug) After standing watch over the Town of Gravelbourg for 96 years, their iconic prairie water tower is set to come down. Over the past few years there have been operational issues and leaks associated with the tower which prompted the town to decommission the structure in 2022. The town is also […]

Tributes and stories have poured in over the last two days since news came of Lyle Stewart’s passing on Tuesday. Stewart died at the age of 73 following a lengthy battle with cancer. In a Facebook post, Premier Scott Moe said Stewart, “was a man of few words, which is unusual for a politician, but […]

Prince Albert business owner, church pastor, and former Chamber of Commerce chair Meghan Mayer has abruptly withdrawn her candidacy for the Sask. Party nomination in Prince Albert Carlton, raising eyebrows and speculation about the sudden decision. Mayer, who had announced her run just last week, unexpectedly pulled out in a statement released Monday morning. Although […]

Users of Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms are experiencing login issues in what appears to be a widespread outage. Internet traffic observer Down Detector is reporting vast outages on several Meta platforms Tuesday. The problems are being reported across the world, suggesting that the outage could be global.  London-based internet monitoring firm Netblocks […]

Discovering news articles and videos on Facebook and Instagram will soon become a relic of the past, as Meta announced it is officially ending news availability in Canada. Meta said Tuesday that within a few weeks, it will remove news for all Canadian users of its popular Facebook and Instagram platforms. In June, the company started running a […]

A new federal law will require digital platforms such as Netflix, YouTube and TikTok to contribute to and promote Canadian content. The Liberals’ Online Streaming Act passed its final vote in the Senate Thursday and received royal assent. The bill updates the Broadcasting Act to bring online streaming platforms under the regulatory authority of the […]

It has been said that the first casualty of any war – is the truth. In the last 5 years the concept of deception from the “main stream media” has become a hot topic both online and in real time around coffee row and the water cooler. Misinformation circulates about everything from the pandemic, to […]

Monday has become a day where those who are addicted to their Facebook and Instagram accounts were not able to access them. A worldwide outage hit Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms around 9:40 Saskatchewan time Monday morning with service not being restored until around 3:30 The company did not say what might […]

The Yorkton RCMP has been made aware that someone has created a Facebook Page impersonating them. The RCMP say this page has been set up as a personal page rather than a business or organizational page. It features the RCMP logo as the profile picture and the City of Yorkton logo as the cover photo. […]