Four months after he was released from prison for child exploitation offenses, a Saskatchewan man is now facing similar charges.

The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit executed a search warrant at a home in Martensville on Sept. 17, according to a release from the Saskatoon Police Service on Friday.

Electronic devices were examined at the scene and seized by investigators.

Matthew Joseph Wood, 38, was arrested and charged with two counts of possessing child abuse and exploitation material, one count of making child abuse and exploitation available and one count of breaching a prohibition order.

The Saskatchewan ICE Unit previously charged Wood with various child exploitation offences in January of 2024. He was incarcerated for the offences and was released in May of 2026.

Wood appeared in court on Friday and is being held for his next court date on Sept. 22.

Pulling into a truck stop to fill up on diesel for a long-haul trip is anything but cheap these days.

In the last 48 hours alone, diesel prices in Saskatchewan have jumped from around $2.15 per litre, to over $2.60 per litre.

The jump in diesel costs will affect the price of goods and services Canada wide, according to Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy.

“So, what happens at the grocery checkout has everything to do with the cost of the farm gate as well as the cost of transportation, which is planes, trains, maritime vessels and even home heating fuel,” he said.

McTeague added that grocery prices will soon be on the rise because of the cost of diesel for trucking companies being passed down to clients and ultimately consumers.

According to Chris Procyk, Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan vice president, Saskatchewan producers are some of the hardest hit by the steep rise in prices.

“There are so many layers to it in terms of the fuel we need for our machines, combines, tractors, semis, to get the crop off. Fuel prices also impact the cost of getting parts,” he said.

Procyk also told CTV News that when gas and diesel prices rise, producers end up footing extra bills to clients just to get their products off the farm.

“When a company comes to pick up our grain from our farm, we’re usually charged with a fuel surcharge, an increased cost because of the fuel price. So, a lot of those costs get passed along to us as farms, but we actually don’t have any avenue to pass it on,” he said.

“The price at the elevator doesn’t account for fuel, and it’s just what the price of the good is. And we have to get it there. So now the cost has gone up quite significantly for us to get it off the field into our bins or into the elevator. So, I think it just means lower and lower returns for farmers in general.”

McTeague warns that relief from the unprecedented diesel prices, at least in the short term, could be a ways down the road.

It’s very little in the way of any type of relief. It looks like we’re heading towards what could be permanent $2.50 per litre and up for the balance of 2026 and certainly the first quarter of 2027, as long as the weather remains cold.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority has launched an investigation into the death of a Saskatoon woman who was waiting for surgery to fix her broken ankle.

The authority said Friday it will be speaking with Kirsten Hanke’s family as part of a formal internal review.

It declined to provide details of her care due to privacy legislation and patient confidentiality.

Hanke’s partner, Morgan Kirby, told reporters at an Opposition NDP news conference the 30-year-old had badly broken her ankle when she tripped and fell while grabbing a package outside their home on Aug. 12.

Kirby said Hanke was scheduled for surgery three days later, but doctors told them they were postponing it because they needed to do another surgery.

In the days that followed, he said, Hanke collapsed at home and later died in hospital.

The family was told blood clots caused by Hanke’s broken ankle got into her lungs, causing a death Kirby said shouldn’t have happened.

“The way I’m coping with this is fighting for her. It’s the only thing I can do,” he said. “I wake up, I’m alone. I go to bed, I am alone. I don’t have my person anymore.”

He said Hanke was thoughtful, though sometimes stubborn, and had the best laugh.

“When she believed in something, she believed in it and she would fight to the death to defend it,” Kirby said.

“She was the love of my life.”

New Democrats had raised the circumstances surrounding Hanke’s death earlier this week in a video posted on social media.

On Friday, NDP Leader Carla Beck urged Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government to launch an investigation into what happened.

“The family wants to ensure that as much as possible, something good comes from this senseless tragedy,” Beck told reporters. “Some of the changes that need to happen (must) happen so that this doesn’t happen to any other family in Saskatchewan.”

Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said in a statement he expects the health authority to thoroughly examine the circumstances and “take any appropriate action identified through the review process.”

The health authority has designated the death as a critical incident, which legally requires it to provide a report to the minister about what happened and steps it will take to prevent similar cases from happening again.

The province defines critical incidents as a serious adverse health event that wasn’t expected or intended to occur but resulted in death, disability or injury. The province also says such incidents do not result primarily from patients’ underlying health conditions or a known risk inherent in providing health services.

In 2021, Saskatchewan’s auditor found the province needs to better utilize critical incident reporting to improve patient safety. It had found the overall number of incidents were increasing.

Kirby said Friday the internal review must be done.

“There’s no question it should,” he said. “(The authority’s) first two responses (earlier this week) were personally for me not acceptable.”

The fourth annual drug awareness walk for fentanyl and crystal meth took place in North Central Regina on Friday.

The event attracted more than 100 people, who walked from Grassick Playground Park over to Albert Street and around the neighbourhood.

The walk was organized by Regina Treaty Status Indian Services (RTSIS). The group says the walk is meant to be supportive for those living in the community, and those currently using fentanyl and meth.

The hope is that hearing speakers who talk of recovery will encourage those using drugs to be willing to accept help and pursue treatment options.

“I think the reality is that we know there is a staggering number of Indigenous people who are facing substance misuse and abuse,” Natasha Kennedy, executive director of RTSIS said.

“We know that in order to heal a community, that we have to be a voice, and so being that voice means hearing from people’s stories and sharing those stories of success and hope.”

Organizers said they appreciate senior leadership from the Regina Police Service and Regina Fire department walking along in support. Members of those services deal with the fallout from drug addictions every day.

A team of investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) were deployed to the site of a small aircraft accident near Kisbey, Sask. on Saturday morning.

According to an email to CTV News, the TSB was notified on Friday that a Cessna 172 registered to Harv’s Air had been reported overdue around 10:30 a.m. CDT.

The TSB said they were later notified the aircraft was located by Search and Rescue.

Two investigators were deployed to the site on Saturday to gather more information about what happened.

CTV News has reached out to Saskatchewan RCMP for any further information.

Kisbey, Sask. is located about 170 kilometres southeast of Regina.

Melville and Ituna fire crews responded to a collision on Saturday night between an SUV and farm equipment.

The incident, which was responded to around 7:18 p.m., resulted in unspecified injuries, according to a social media post from Melville Fire and Rescue.

“Crews contained the scene and did traffic control until the vehicles were safely removed from the scene,” the post read.

“At this time of year, it is especially important to be looking for moving farm equipment on roadways as harvest is well underway.”

On the French archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, just 20 kilometres from the southern tip of Newfoundland, Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron said that the two countries would strengthen their co-operation in key areas.

“Today sovereignty goes beyond being able to feed, fuel and defend ourselves. It requires secure access to AI, semiconductors, critical minerals, payment systems, clean energy technologies, vaccines and space-based communications,” Carney said in prepared remarks.

“The President and I will task our space agencies and defence ministries to develop and share common infrastructure, including space launch systems and ground-based facilities.”

In a joint statement, the leaders also said that the Regional Joint Cooperation Commission between Atlantic Canada and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon will expand its work in the priority areas of economic growth, energy transition and climate resilience.

A strategic partnership would also be struck between the chambers of commerce of both Canada and France to bring the business communities closer together.

The announcement is another step in underscoring Carney’s push for closer ties with Europe as Canada’s trade war with the United States deepens.

This is the first official visit by a Canadian Prime Minister to the French territory and the first trip in more than a decade to the region by sitting French President.

It comes just four days after European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen extended an invitation to Canada to become the first associate member of the European Union.

U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed the proposal as “laughable” but also called it a potentially “hostile act” which could trigger serious tariffs on Europe.

In his speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg earlier this week, Carney said that he was not proposing a third bloc that would become a great power rival but wanted to pursue resilience so no one can control open markets.

After a working lunch, Macron and Carney laid wreaths at a memorial honouring Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon’s 529 resistance fighters who fought for Free France during the Second World War.

Under secret orders from Charles de Gaulle, the leader of Free France, three corvettes and a submarine set sail from St. John’s, N.L., for Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in December 1941 to overthrow the Vichy regime, which was aligned with Nazi Germany.

The 1941 Christmas liberation of the archipelago is also imbued with symbolism for Canada.

Wartime documents declassified by the Canadian government reveal that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt saw the surprise takeover as a violation of the Monroe doctrine, which sought to block European interference in the Western hemisphere.

Although the Canadian military did prepare for an invasion, Prime Minister Mackenzie King defied pressure from the Americans to gain control of the islands and shelved its plans. Instead, Canadian forces continued to work alongside Free French sailors to protect allied convoys of soldiers and supplies from German attacks as they crossed the North Atlantic.

“Canada and Europe will build an alliance for the future that will strengthen our collective resilience so that we can live our lives as we choose,” Carney said, standing at a podium next to Macron.

The Prime Minister was only on the ground in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon for less than four hours. He rushed back to Ottawa to meet with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store to continue discussions on future partnerships.

Norway has the world’s largest sovereign fund with more than USD $2 trillion in assets. It is currently considering reducing its reliance on U.S. Treasury bonds. The head of Norges Bank, which manages the fund, was in Toronto to participate in the Canada Investment Summit held earlier this week.

As Canada’s economic relationship with the U.S has worsened, the Carney government has struck a series of agreements with Europe in rapid succession.

In December, Canada became the only non-European member approved to participate in the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) defence procurement program.

In the spring, Canada was also named as the home for the new headquarters of the Defense and Security Resilience Bank.

And for the first time, Canadian musical talent will have the chance to compete next year in Eurovision, the biggest singing competition in the world.

A man and a woman are facing charges following an attempted robbery in the early hours of Thursday in Regina.

Officers were dispatched to a business in the 4200 block of Dewdney Avenue following the report of a robbery around 12:50 a.m., according to a news release from the Regina Police Service.

Information indicated a man and woman were attempting to steal items from a business and had assaulted a staff member during the incident.

The man fled the area on a bicycle and the woman fled on foot, police said. Soon after, one of the officers found an abandoned bicycle nearby and the man matching the suspect description. He was taken into custody without incident.

At around 3:15 a.m., another officer found the woman after she returned to the area of the business. She was also taken into custody without incident.

The man and woman, both 38, are charged with robbery. The man is additionally charged with resisting arrest and failure to comply with a probation order.

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