Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Emergency services disrupted by COVID-19 in Herbert
Starting Friday, a medical clinic in Herbert will go without emergency services until further notice. The Saskatchewan Health Authority says in a news release it's because of COVID-19 in the area and ...
Nov 27, 2020
COVID-19 cases identified at St. Kateri, Miller, Henry Braun schools
A classroom and a bus at St. Kateri Tekakwitha School in Regina have been closed until Dec. 4 because of a COVID-19 case. The Regina Catholic School Division says in a news release that other classes ...
Nov 27, 2020
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8:30 – Columnist Matt Gurney says Canada’s COVID-19 failures can easily become a partisan blame game, but the real reason Canada wasn't adequately prepared for COVID-19 is because we faile...
Nov 27, 2020
Real trees in large and early demand this year
We are one month from Christmas and Rick Van Duyvendyk with Dutch Growers in Saskatoon says his business has sold twice as many live Christmas trees as it did this time last year. “I am a little...
Nov 26, 2020
ICU capacity at nearly 100 per cent in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) says with the growth in COVID-19 cases in intensive care units in the past month, it is having to escalate its response to the pandemic. The SHA said Thursday p...
Nov 26, 2020 (File photo by Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
SHA moving entry point for Regina drive-through testing site
With more demand at Regina's COVID-19 drive-through testing site, the Saskatchewan Health Authority is making a change to help reduce the traffic spilling onto Dewdney Avenue. Beginning Friday, people...
Nov 26, 2020 Vehicles line up to get into the drive-through testing site at Evraz Place on Sept. 8, 2020. (Britton Gray/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Nov. 26: 3 deaths, 299 new cases; 85 active cases at Saskatoon jail
The Saskatchewan government reported Thursday the deaths of three residents who had tested positive for COVID-19. One of the people was in their 70s and lived in the Saskatoon area. The other t...
Nov 26, 2020 A woman being tested for COVID-19 in her vehicle at the drive-through testing facility in Regina. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatoon woman builds large snow dragon in hopes of making people smile
Mel Thompson is making the most out of all the snow that was left on her front yard earlier this month. It took her about a week, but she made a giant blue snow dragon. She started by shovelling the s...
Nov 26, 2020
Police chief calls for embrace of harm reduction with increase in fentanyl on the streets
It was meth before, but Regina Police Chief Evan Bray said a different drug is becoming more prevalent in the city. "The reality is, we're seeing more fentanyl, and other drugs that have been laced wi...
Nov 26, 2020
SHA CEO says prolonged period of high cases would prompt field hospital activation
Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone offered a glimpse Thursday into what it would take to activate the province's two field hospitals in Regina and Saskatoon to handle COVID-19 patient...
Nov 26, 2020 Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...