Sarah Mills: The president is playing a game of Risk with real lives
Sarah Mills says when you make a threat like "a whole civilization will die tonight" about Iran, the only choi...
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Premier Moe confident vaccinations will speed up
Giving an update on the province's COVID-19 situation, Premier Scott Moe acknowledged the vaccine rollout has been slower than hoped, calling it "sluggish." But Moe also said he thinks it's going to p...
Jan 13, 2021 Premier Scott Moe (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. pharmacists looking for more details on vaccine plan
Many pharmacists in the province are ready and able to start giving out COVID-19 vaccines, according to the Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan. Now they're just waiting to find out where they fit in...
Jan 11, 2021 (Photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Email mistake leads to privacy investigation into Sask. hunting licence system
An investigation has been opened into thousands of emails sent to the wrong people through the province's Hunting, Angling and Trapping Licence (HAL) system. Last last week, the third-party company th...
Jan 11, 2021
Announcement on COVID rules expected early this week
The most recent round of COVID restrictions are set to expire on Friday, but the health minister is expected to announce an update to restrictions early this week. Minister Paul Merriman said he's bee...
Jan 11, 2021 Health Minister Paul Merriman. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Vaccine plan needs faster rollout, better communication, says Sask. nurses' union
The president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) thinks the province's program to roll out the COVID-19 vaccines needs to be sped up in a significant way. "The quicker we go, the quicker we get...
Jan 11, 2021 Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory. (650 CKOM file photo)
Vaccine holdback not required by Health Canada despite health minister's claims
Saskatchewan maintains the federal government asked the province to hold back half of the first COVID-19 vaccine doses delivered to the province, despite comments from Health Canada otherwise. Several...
Jan 08, 2021 Sask. Health Minister Paul Merriman (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
COVID vaccines slowly rolling out to Regina care homes
As the COVID vaccine rollout spreads wider and wider in Saskatchewan, two care homes in Regina are now receiving doses. The province said as of Dec. 30 1,834 doses of the 1,950 Pfizer Bio-N-Tech vacci...
Jan 06, 2021 The Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home in Regina. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
Families protest conditions and lack of care for inmates with COVID
Just as COVID-19 spread through communities in Saskatchewan, it's now spreading through jails and penitentiaries as well. As of Monday, there were 63 inmates and 12 staff at the Regina Correctional Ce...
Jan 05, 2021 Julie Paul's son is in the Regina Correctional Centre and has tested positive for COVID. She says he and others with the virus aren't getting proper care. Jan. 5, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
2020 a year of growth for Regina Public Library
"Change" was the watchword for most people and businesses in 2020, but for the Regina Public Library, it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. The pandemic shut the library doors in the spring so it had to ...
Jan 04, 2021
Economic recovery among premier's hopes for 2021
Along with getting the COVID-19 vaccine out to everyone in the province, Premier Scott Moe says the government will be focusing on jumpstarting Saskatchewan's economic recovery in 2021. Moe said those...
Jan 04, 2021 Premier Scott Moe. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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Murray Wood: Signs of spring appearing in Saskatchewan
Murray Wood says signs of spring were all over the place on the weekend, even though the forecast remains wintery for th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 8
On today's show, Evan gets the latest on global tensions with Iran and the U.S., discusses Riversdale safety concerns an...