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Saskatchewan’s week in review leads with accountability and ends with football. In this CBC News Saskatchewan report from Friday, October 9, 2026, the province’s police watchdog is investigating an arrest that left a man injured, while the Saskatchewan Roughriders prepare for a Thanksgiving Monday rematch with the Montreal Alouettes — the first meeting between the two teams since last year’s Grey Cup.
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According to the report, a widely shared video showed the forceful arrest of a man in the Battlefords area on October 6. He was later released without charges, and the Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response Team is now investigating the circumstances of the injury. Investigations of this kind are meant to answer a narrow but important question independently of the police service involved: what happened during the arrest, and was the force used consistent with the law and policy?
The same newscast looks ahead to Monday’s game in the other Saskatchewan tradition that stops the province: Roughriders football. A Grey Cup rematch carries its own motivation, and a holiday-Monday crowd will expect the home side to show it remembers the last meeting as clearly as the visitors do.
Watch the full report above for the latest on the watchdog investigation and the Roughriders’ preparations.
