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Written by RielWelcome, friends, explorers, and weary internet travellers! This is the unofficial local newspaper for Riversdale an upcoming area of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
There is only one* grocery store in Riversdale, the Giant Tiger on Avenue F and 22nd Street. There has only been one grocey store in Riversdale since the Good Food Junction Coop at Station 20 West closed its doors on January 27, 2016. This creates some hardship for Riversdale residents, especially those who don't have automobiles.
Fortunately, an online tool exists that can help people avoid burdensome trips to grocery stores by helping them chose to go shopping when the time they spend waiting in check out lines is likely to be minimal. The online tool has been in operation almost since the time the Good Food Junction Coop closed. It can save you time by shortening your time in line waiting for a cashier and save you from going shopping when a grocery store is extremely busy. Best of all, adoption and use of this locally developed tech tool doesn't promote loss of cashier jobs, it promotes the hiring of more cashiers. Access this tool from home to see existing cashier check out wait-times or use your smart phone to report your wait time at cow8yxe.ca.* You can get some groceries and household goods on 20th Street through Soul Foods Conscious Grocer and delicious Asian fruits, vegetables and groceries through Chung Wah Chinese Grocery and An An Market. Eastern Market, also in Riversdale and located in the mini-mall across from the Midtown-Plaza, is also a great place to get delicious Asian fruits and vegetables, seafood, sauces and dry goods.
Report and View Train and Traffic Obstructions
There are few things more frustrating about living in Saskatoon than the constantly increasing property taxes, ill-timed traffic lights, closed-for-construction streets and avenues, and train or accident caused traffic delays. Some say Saskatoon has two seasons, Winter and Construction. To its credit Saskatoon has a tool that allows you to see which streets and avenues it has closed for construction. Access it here: https://www.saskatoon.ca/news-releases/daily-road-report-may-27-2019 for week day reports, and here: https://www.saskatoon.ca/news-releases/weekend-road-report-may-25-26-2019Sed for weekend reports.
You can report and view train and accident caused traffic delays here: http://traintrackeryxe.ca or http://traintrackrstn.ca This locally developed on-line tool can be accessed through your smart phone or laptop and doesn't use supercookies to track your browsing habits or require access to your cell phone files or camera or location data to work. Best of all, you can report just about anything that may affect traffic flow through the site, including police traffic stops.
