Weyburn has been making headlines across the country this week after it was ranked the fifth best place to live in Canada and the best place to live on the prairies by MoneySense Magazine.

To put it into perspective, cities like Calgary (75th), Regina (34th), Toronto (129th) and Montreal (356th) were all well behind Weyburn.

The MoneySense rankings factor in things like economic performance, housing prices, affordability, and much more. We wanted to know what was behind the statistics, so we caught up with a few familiar faces, and asked them, what makes Weyburn awesome.