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Good afternoon and thanks for joining us. The family of Private Shawn Frell shared some of their favorite memories of him with reporters yesterday, honoring the late service member. Private Shawn Frell was killed in the Waywright tragedy on Saturday and his family members have now spoken publicly shaping how sharing how he shaped their lives. Private Frell's mother, Patricia, says it was her son's dream to serve in the armed forces since he was a small child. After joining the military last year, she says he grew in confidence and purpose. His parents fondly remember his mischievous side, but also say Frell knew how to keep the family close.
One thing I am going to miss with him running behind me, calling me old man. That's just something that sticks with me when he always wanted me or to do something. It was always a old man. Old always told him, "I'm not old. I'm only 21." Private Frell is survived by his parents and his brother. Prince Albert police tracked and arrested a suspect last night with the help of the K-9 unit. Officers responded to a suspicious vehicle report on MacArthur Drive just before midnight last night to find a vehicle parked in the alley. Officers tried to conduct a traffic stop, but the two occupants fled the vehicle, which was reported stolen.
A police service dog tracked the driver through yards and alleyways to a home on Donaldson Street, where he was arrested. A 28-year-old man faces five charges, including failure to comply with a probation order. Local authorities are remaining tight-lipped about a Crimestoppers data leak affecting communities across the country. Multiple police departments in Ontario have suspended their participation with Crimestoppers after a CBC investigation revealed more than 1.5 million tips submitted to Crimestoppers over the last 25 years were exposed. But Saskatchewan Crimestoppers programs in
Saskatchewan have not commented on the breach to the anonymous crime tip system other than saying its national association is coordinating a response to the incident. The Saskatoon Police Service says its systems are independent of Crimestoppers. It's advising people who want to provide information to contact Saskatoon police directly. The CBC investigation found more than 83,000 tips in Saskatchewan were included in the breach, which includes personal information and details of the tips themselves. All right, Jeff, we've made it to the big day where everything changes and it cools off dramatically and hopefully you've got some uh weather gear in the closet.
Well, I wore a heavier jacket today because by the time we uh wrap up our broadcast day, it may be a little dreary outside, but right now uh you can certainly see all this active weather along the Alberta Saskatchewan border moving up into northern parts of the province. That second low sort of moving up uh into the southern area right now. Saskatoon hasn't seen a lot of activity and nor has Prince Albert, but that is likely going to change as we make our way into the evening hours and into Saturday. And Saturday is going to be a very windy day regardless of precipitation. So, we'll talk about those details later on. The federal government is highlighting efforts to reduce the cost of home heating.
Secretary of State Buckley Balange was in Saskatoon today touting the federal government's $2 billion investment over eight years to help residents with home retrofits to improve energy efficiency with the goal of eventually reducing heating and energy bills. Bange also highlighted the reintroduction of rebates for heat pumps. The program offers eligible households a grant of either $2,000 or $10,000 depending on income. Because whether you own your home or rent it, everyone deserves a comfortable place to live and a fair shot at keeping our energy costs down. Balon also says to simplify the process, there will be one online application portal and no requirements for energy audits before or after installation.
Premier Mo outlined Saskatchewan's economic outlook last night at the Premier's dinner. He says 94% of the province's exports to the United States are still tariff-free because as it turns out, the United States of America actually does need what Saskatchewan produces regardless of what the individual in the White House might say. It's part of a larger message about the province's stability during uncertain times. Mo also touched on topics like affordability, addiction supports, and healthcare. We will win. I know that we will win. I know that we will. Pickers representing QP 5430 were out front of the dinner. The healthc care union is in the middle of contract talks with the province. The government of Saskatchewan has stressed a deal needs
to be reached at the bargaining table, avoiding any strike action. The federal government's amnesty window has been extended until 90 days after the Supreme Court issues a decision on the proposed ban. According to a reminder from the Saskatchewan government, gun owners ahead of the original planned expiration date that e that decision rather is not expected until at least mid 2027. The province added affected gun owners will continue to be protected from criminal liability during the amnesty window. The Saskatchewan Firearms Office will also continue taking guns for ver verification, appraisal, exemption, and storage of guns that were banned in 2020, 2024, and 2025.
A Saskatoon family was left in shock after a Canada Post truck drove into their home. This was the scene on Bablace in the Fair Haven neighborhood yesterday afternoon. Danna Zimmerman Hernandez and her daughter were inside the home getting ready for lunch when they saw a Canada Post vehicle make a U-turn in their culde-sac and then try drive towards them. I saw him coming at the house and I was still standing there like looking. We're still a good distance away but I'm like where are you going? And he ended up hitting the house and I thought he was going to miss it but he didn't. So, their brother, who owns the home, temporarily patched up the wall before contractors could arrive. In a statement, Canada Post says it is aware of the situation and says it takes road
safety very seriously. Saskatchewan Polytenic School of Business and Entrepreneurship is being named in honor of philanthropist Merles Belure. Belchure's recent donation of $5 million will support the new Joseph A. Remy Saskatoon campus. In 2019, Belchure was awarded an honorary degree in applied studies from Saski in recognitions of his achievements in business and community service. Belchure also had a message of encouragement for prospective students and even those who are looking to change careers. Follow what you want to do. Follow your heart what you want to do. And if you want to change careers, even in business or whatever, I changed and wound up as
an owner in a business. I was qualified as a professional, but I wanted to be in the business. I wanted to be in the manufacturing business. I had fallen in love with so to speak. I just every day I went to work, I loved it. Programs in the Merles Belair School of Business and Entrepreneurship will be offered at all Saski campuses, including in Prince Albert. When we come back, part three of our conversation with Dan Glass. He outlines the challenges faced by the aviation industry and shares the story of his most memorable flight. In his current job as president of Micensen Flight Center and as a captain for WestJet, Dan Glass gave his opinions on the challenges he faces in the industry.
Economics professors will say that uh in textbooks, aviation is uh sort of at the leading edge of both a downturn, it's the first one to suffer because it's discretionary spending for most people if they're traveling for leisure or even for business. A lot of business people if they're under pressure, they'll stop spending money on air travel. So they'll, you know, that it's sort of one of the first ones to be affected and one of the last ones to recover. I think in the last decade or two, that's probably changed a bit. Uh people love taking vacations, especially in Canada. We got to escape in the winter time and get to someplace warm. Um and then more recently with the US trade issues. Uh
the flying to the US has really fallen off. Uh the reports I've seen are as much as 20 to 30%. While it's been 6 years since the pandemic, Glass says the ripple effects are still being felt since co uh a lot of the supply chain issues still exist today. It's it seems like it's a never- ending catch-up game. When we ship an engine out to be overhauled for the smaller piston engine airplanes, it takes 2 months, 3 months sometimes to get that engine back. So, that airplane is potentially down for that period of time. That's a lot of lost revenue. Uh and then on the business side, you know, it's it's always increasing costs. Uh you know, in order to keep employees around with the
amount of hiring and the pilot shortage and lately the aircraft maintenance engineer shortage that exists globally, uh you know, companies have to pay a more than a respectable wage to keep people around if they're going to keep these employees and uh keep them invested locally. Insurance rates are always uh a big part of it as well. they get affected. You know, if there's a major accident somewhere in the world, it's a ripple or trickle down effect onto all of the operators that uh insurance rates are affected. So, and then there's there's government oversight. You know, government is always trying to find ways to cut cost and it unfortunately it affects the industry because that trickles down again into the industry. If you're
trying to get certification for a new airplane or get pilots licensed, it's it's a slow process. In 2018, the Glassfield Airport suffered a major fire that completely destroyed the old World War II hanger. That was one of the last, well, it was the last remaining World War II hanger. Uh, and it had been refurbished. I remember growing up as a kid there. We were constantly doing improvements to that hanger to keep it functional. They were supposed to be temporary, you know, built just for the war to last maybe 5 or 10 years and that hanger lasted 50 plus years. Um, but uh yeah, there's there's not a lot of them left. There's there's still a few in the province. Uh I think Yorkton has some swift current
maybe Moojaw. Uh but yeah there's still some of these old hangers around but uh I know the Princeford airport has been looking to reinvest there and hopefully build a new uh facility. Glass says other painful memories include when friends or people he's worked with lose their lives in plane accidents. That's always kind of a tough thing to deal with is seeing somebody you know or somebody you've trained with or even just a co-orker or an acquaintance uh lose their life in aviation. And it's uh the old saying in aviation u it's not inherently dangerous but to an even greater extent than the sea it's terribly unforgiving of any mistake or carelessness.
While he remembers taking off in a Cessna 152 for his first solo flight like it was yesterday. It was at an air show in Prince Albert that Glass got a rare opportunity that stands out among the rest. After my dad had passed away, uh there was an air show in Prince Albert and um there was a B17 bomber brought in for this air show and I bought a ticket on it. I wanted to ride up in the nose and sure enough I got to take off in the nose of the aircraft and that was an incredible experience and somehow, you know, I was chatting with the pilots before we left and they're they're like uh you know and I introduced myself and talked about the airport a bit and they're like, "Oh, well anywhere exciting to fly around
here?" And I'm like, "Wow, my farm is west of the city, my family farm." So, we took off and sure enough, we headed right out west of the city and flew right over the family farm. And I was like, "This is surreal. I can't believe this." So, yeah, it was really incredible. Uh it was a great day, beautiful day for it. And uh that was definitely a highlight. Uh lots of great memories riding around with him in airplanes when I was a kid. Uh you know, flying over the farm um fairly low. Uh we actually had a hair airirstrip on the uh farm there at one point and uh you know he and I would fly airplanes in another um uh we farmed a little piece of land down by St. Louis and we'd fly from the farm down to there to drop
off parts or fly lunch down for the guys working in the field. Um, yeah, I know uh there was a story he used to tell about uh an engine that he took off out of a small lake. Uh it's called uh Steep Bank Lake, uh just north of Candle Lake there. Uh and he took off out of there and had an engine failure and circled around and he couldn't make it back to the lake and had to land the plane in the trees, walked away with barely a scratch on him, but he had to spend, I think, a night or two in the bush before somebody figured out exactly where he was cuz he was up fishing at his own cabin there. So, yeah, some fun stories. If you missed parts one and two of our interview with Dan Glass, you can
watch the entire interview on our website, ctvnews.ca. Jeff's got your weather forecast coming up next. And a class project turn successful business helps wheelchair users gain independence. Okay, Jeff, all of those weather systems that we were joking about kind of sneaking in the door by curfew, those are all arriving today from Alberta. So, what do we have coming up this weekend? Yeah, they've had a little maybe they've gotten into something because they are going to be bad news in so many respects. Uh you can see this line of storms all along sort of this wall of rain and snow. It is moving eastward
across Saskatchewan. And then there's sort of a secondary system, all part of the uh the same storm system, but uh another area of active weather marching up through southern Saskatchewan. We're talking wind warnings, snowfall warnings, weather alerts for a big portion of Saskatchewan. And yes, this is going to make its way into the province in a significant fashion as we make our way into tomorrow. And tomorrow, even if it's not raining or snowing, it's going to be wickedly windy. wind gusts. Uh, as I said, there's wind warnings in the south, but in around Prince Albert, we're talking wind gusts of around 80 kilometers an hour tomorrow. So, yeah, here's the futurecast. So, let's g take a quick gander at that. Look how tight
those pressure lines are. Yeah, that's what we're talking about. That big low bullseye sliding up through uh southern Saskatchewan, central Saskatchewan into northern Manitoba. But on the backhand side, snow, cold air, and wind. Yuck. Okay, moving on. Uh here we go. So, overnight tonight, the temperatures aren't that bad. Pretty much seasonal temperatures. Minus3 degrees for Spiritwood, minus2 for the Battlefords, -2 as well for Candle Lake and Birdills and Rostster. Minus one in Nipwood and minus one in Melford. Some places dealing with uh just increasing cloud, other places dealing with snow and rain as rain, at least I should say rain changing to snow. Tomorrow, mainly
cloudy skies will be the big deal of the day in terms of your sky conditions. But the dominant feature for tomorrow's weather is going to be this wind. As I mentioned, the wind is it gets windy tonight and then the winds shift around from the north to the west and the westerly winds sustained winds generally speaking around 50 or 60 kilometers an hour and wind gusts in the 80s. So it is going to be 70s and early and low 80s. So it's going to be a very windy Saturday and temperatures way below seasonal by about six or seven degrees. So for Prince Albertton area, rain changing to snow. As I mentioned, starting off with uh the winds picking up. Northwesterly winds 30, gusting to
50. And then they shift around tonight. Westerly winds 50, gusting to 80. And then as we roll into tomorrow, sustained winds out of the west at 50, gusting to 80. Cloudy and windy conditions as I mentioned, 2°. So that is about 6° below seasonal for Prince Albert and area. And then two again on Sunday. Monday sunny and six. Six on Tuesday. a chance of flurries on Wednesday and three degrees on Thursday and Friday. So, uh the good times in terms of uh warm double digit temperatures are ove are over. And that means we can have the uh enjoyment of walking backwards to and from places to uh try and cut down on the wind or the sand blasting.
Get on the old balaclava. There you go. Exactly. All right, Jeeoff. Well, the Prince Albert Raiders are back in action tonight for the first time since Sunday's overtime loss to the Brandon Wheat Kings. The Raiders have earned a single point in three straight games, but their last win at home came against Red Deer at the end of September. Tonight, the Everett Silver Tips will visit the Arthauser Center for the first time since they won the WHL Championship in May. But the Silver Tips are also off to a slow start, going 351 and two in their first 11 games. They've only scored 19 goals and are winless in their last two. Then on Saturday, the Raiders will head to Swift Current where the Broncos have won four straight. The
Winnipeg Jets have traded goalie Connor Hellbuck to the New Jersey Devils. Hellbuck formally requested a trade over the summer and that turned into an unpaid suspension when he failed to show up at training camp last month. The deal comes as his suspension was just set to lift today. The Jets in return get center Dawson Mercer, goalie Nico Daw's 2026 firstround pick Alexander Command and Nick Buchad along with a pair of draft picks. Hella Buck won't have to wait long before his return to Winnipeg though. The Devils will visit the Jets on November 10th. Do you have a community event you would like to promote? Or maybe you'd like to draw attention to your organization. Let your local CTV station help you spread
the word. Contact us at 306-9226020 or email pa news at ctv.ca. You can appear on CTV Prince Albert's News at 5 and get your message to our viewers. A young engineers class project has blossomed into a thriving business. She's developed robotic arms designed to give wheelchair users greater independence at a lower cost. Kimberly Fowler has the details. Assisted robotics are not accessible if they're not financially accessible. For Ila Burns, what began as a firstear university project in an engineering course at U Ottawa has grown into something much bigger. Me and a group of
students were introduced to uh two girls with um who are power wheelchair users and they had asked us to build them a robot. They needed 24/7 caregiver assistants. There were a lot of simple tasks that they thought that if they had a robotic device, they could do these things independently. That idea has now evolved into co-founding her own robotics company, Cello Robotics, working to make assist of technology more accessible. Innovation is only happening in the sectors that have money, not in the sectors that need it. Existing robotic arms can cost up to $120,000.
Burns and her team are working to bring down the cost to less than 20,000. We've uh engineered a solution that cuts cost in kind of um the structure of the device. So what we've done is we've created a scarabase structure. So it's like it operates on a plane and it moves up and down on an a vertical axis. So that means that the arm is able to hold itself up mechanically um which removes the need for the cost of very expensive parts. Cello Robotics has raised more than $1.5 million in funding and worked with more than 300 people with physical disabilities to help shape the product's design.
I've already seen it help people do tasks that they've never been able to do before independently and like the look on people's faces when they're able to do these things. Um, and I want that for everybody. Smells like sunshine. And Burns's work is earning recognition well beyond the lab. Next month, she'll be recognized with one of the Youth Ottawa's 21 under 21 awards, honoring young leaders in Ottawa who have made significant contributions. Leila definitely stood out from a selection committee standpoint and I think she's perfectly deserving of being recognized because, you know, this is a person that seems to be on a rocket ship and can really make this city proud with what she achieves.
People say if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life. And it's so true. I just love what I do. Kimberly Fowler, CTV News. Brought to you by Saskatchewan Union of Nurses. Thank you to Saskatchewan's 11,000 registered nurses. I want to know where all these cool science labs were when I went to school. Jeff, maybe I just didn't find that building in the Ottawa area. There you go. All right, we're going to wrap it up here with a giant pumpkin that was disqualified from the Port Elgen, Ontario Pumpkin Fest, but it's found a new home. The pumpkin was
disqualified because it had a small soft spot that continued to grow on the way to the competition and the strict rules don't allow holes in pumpkins. It weighed 771 kg. So, the grower decided to donate the pumpkin to the Cochran polar bear habitat. Jeeoff, that's in Ontario, not Alberta. Okay. He said it was a great way to give the pumpkin one last use. And he did the same thing last year. And take a look at some of those chomps by the bear. No kidding. snack. I So, will the bears completely consume this or is it just sort of an interesting good little check? I don't know. Good little snack for sure. That's for sure.
Well, there's there's good eating. And now, is there spice in there? That's the question. Is there a little bit of a There might be a stinging of spice. Maybe a little cinnamon. Maybe a little nutmeg. Who knows? There you go. Have a great weekend.
