The Moose Jaw Police Service (MJPS) have identified the alleged shooter in the Friday evening search and subsequent standoff at a Ross Street West as Jirard Saddleback, 32, from Calgary.
The have also now released the alleged shooter also had in his possession of crystal meth and cash resulting in additional charges above and beyond attempted murder and weapons charges initially laid.
Read MorePhotos and a story about the Friday evening shots fired incident as well as a bit of a personal explanation of what and how we were able to witness and video/photograph what was happening as it unfolded.
Read MoreFriday evening there was an incident in the area of Caribou Street West and Ross Street West at 300 block as the Moose Jaw Police Service were in pursuit of an alleged shooter.
At three shots were fired and we have video of the standoff negotiations and the final arrest as MJ Independent was initially outside of the barricaded area and the alleged shooter ended up meters away from our reporter.
Read MoreEnvironment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for Moose Jaw and area saying expect snow this weekend
Read MoreThe U of R is now testing Moose Jaw’s wastewater on a weekly basis to measure the amount of the virus that causes COVID in it.
Read MoreThe third and final part of the story why Moose Jaw received the Great Plains Power Station.
The story relies on internal SaskPower documents acquired by an FOI.
It is a final tale of what, buts and a whole lot of IFs.
Read MoreAt the present time SaskPower is building a 360 Megawatt (MW) - the Great Plains Power Station - in Moose Jaw’s Agri-Food Industrial Park.
But what did it take to get the project envisioned by SaskPower in 2014 into actual construction in Moose Jaw?
To find out MJ Independent submitted an FOI and after a lot of hard work received hundreds of pages of documents - many of them marked confidential and never publicly released - to get the story from the inside.
In part two we look at all of the twist and turns the City of Moose Jaw took in order to succeed against the three other proposed locations.
Read MoreThe ever popular Christmas in October promotion runs Downtown October 20th - October 23rd
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