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COVID vaccine arrives in Regina; health-care workers get first doses Tuesday
Dr. Jeffrey Betcher and Leah Sawatsky rolled up their sleeves to continue the fight against COVID-19 on Tuesday evening. Betcher, a critical care physician, and Sawatsky, an emergency room nurse, were...
Dec 15, 2020 Dr. Jeffrey Betcher gets the first COVID-19 vaccination in Saskatchewan on Dec. 15, 2020. (Image taken from media pool video)
Death-care industry needs protection from COVID too: Funeral service association president
They’re exhausted, they’re emotional and they too put themselves in COVID-19’s path every day. Funeral directors, embalmers and other death-care staff are feeling the effects of the ...
Dec 15, 2020
Latest COVID update Dec. 15: 7 deaths, 194 new cases, 363 recoveries
Saskatchewan has recorded its second-highest daily number of COVID-19-related deaths. The province's Tuesday update reported five deaths in the 80-and-over age range, including four Saskatoon r...
Dec 15, 2020 Signage reminding people of COVID-19 etiquette at Victoria Square Mall. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Ordered to close, casinos focusing on 'doing the right thing'
As part of Saskatchewan's latest COVID-19 measures, casinos and bingo halls will be required to close on Saturday. "It's fair to say that this is difficult news for everyone, especially as we head int...
Dec 15, 2020
COVID cases confirmed at seven Regina schools
Students may have moved to remote learning, but Regina's two largest school divisions are still alerting the public about COVID-19 cases that have been identified since the kids went home. On Tuesday,...
Dec 15, 2020
Moe 'bullish' on vaccination plan as it prepares to begin
The pilot program to give some of Saskatchewan's health-care workers the COVID-19 vaccine is set to begin. Premier Scott Moe confirmed to Gormley on Tuesday that doses of the Pfizer vaccine are to arr...
Dec 15, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Province increases funding for MMIWG programming
There will be more funding available for efforts to address and acknowledge violence against Indigenous women in Saskatchewan. In the summer the province announced $300,000 in funding for projects tha...
Dec 15, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Shahab, Moe respond to racist comments made at anti-mask rally
Saskatchewan's top doctor and Premier Scott Moe responded to racist comments made at a rally on the weekend. It happened at a large rally outside the legislative building against government restrictio...
Dec 15, 2020 Premier Scott Moe and Dr. Saqib Shahab. (980 CJME file photo)
Instead of office Christmas party, Inland Concrete makes food bank donation
Like many businesses, Inland Concrete in Regina is not having an office Christmas party thanks to COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings. As a result, operations manager Rob Young had some extra cash on ...
Dec 15, 2020 With its office Christmas party cancelled because of COVID-19, Inland Concrete in Regina found itself with an extra $1,200. Operations manager Rob Young spent the money on more than 50 frozen turkeys, which were donated to the Regina Food Bank and Souls Harbour.
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8:30 – Saskatchewan added new COVID-19 measures Monday, which will restrict private indoor gatherings to immediate household members only over the holiday season. Meanwhile, our first doses of t...
Dec 15, 2020
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Sarah Mills: Trudeau's behaviour after leaving office isn't endearing him to the public
Sarah Mills says the former PM has skied with a prince, appeared on Instagram with a backwards cap alongside his popstar...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 17
On Friday's show, Evan entertains the question of whether Pierre Poilievre should step down as Conservative Party leader...