{"id":455812,"date":"2025-12-18T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/455812\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:29:18","slug":"blizzard-conditions-keep-rcmp-busy-as-winter-storm-moves-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/455812\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard conditions keep RCMP busy as winter storm moves across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/rcmp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RCMP<\/a> say they\u2019ve dealt with 136 calls for service since blizzard conditions hit the province Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/winter-storm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winter storm<\/a>, which continues to push through the southern parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba Thursday, had led to dozens of collisions across the Prairies.<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan RCMP said between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday, it received 82 reports of vehicle collisions and 25 different weather\/traffic-related reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were reports of tractor-trailer units unable to drive up a hill, icy roads that need to be sanded and vehicles pulled over on the side of the road to let the weather pass,\u201d the force said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA note that the numbers don\u2019t reflect possible vehicles stuck\/abandoned or collisions RCMP officers happened upon while responding to other calls for service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday, it said it had received 29 reports of weather-related incidents which included collisions and ditched vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Blowing snow and gusty winds will begin to taper off Thursday as the storm moves into north-central Ontario and into Quebec; winter storm warnings have been forecast with up to 30 centimetres of snow expected.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11581384\/trump-2026-agenda-preview\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c7695bc0952be060bed3c64009093e6e47ed9584016a9642d9ad0fc7d04bc255.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump seeks to calm U.S. economy, cost-of-living worries in live address\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11582683\/cusma-donald-trump-tariffs-canada-trade-greer-issues\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0e190366ba22801d7a53c151851a305c38574785b3f0dd791d4c0137f1133093.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWhat does U.S. want from Canada to renew CUSMA? Trump\u2019s trade rep has list\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Across the northern regions of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, Environment Canada said Arctic-like temperatures are pushing the mercury lower to roughly -45 to -50 C, with the wind chill.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the strong Alberta Clipper kept police busy in Alberta, dealing with dozens of weather-related collisions due to the very icy conditions.<\/p>\n<p>One major route in Alberta saw police respond to a widespread pile-up and delay involving 80 to 100 cars, closing the Queen Elizabeth II Highway between Calgary and Airdrie for hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Toronto<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Saskatchewan RCMP say they\u2019ve dealt with 136 calls for service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":455813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,37349,71178,313,177393],"class_list":{"0":"post-455812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-rcmp","11":"tag-snow","12":"tag-weather","13":"tag-winter-storm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115741286948905111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}