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‘Not a question of if’: Sask. releases its mass fatality plan
The Saskatchewan Coroners Service is releasing its first mass fatality plan, a plan created thanks to recommendations spurred by the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. In 2018, Clive Weighill released his re...
Jan 18, 2021 Former Saskatoon Police Chief Clive Weighill releases his report and makes 44 recommendations for the Office of the Chief Coroner. (Kevin Martel/980 CJME)
Some health-care workers declining COVID vaccines
A select group of health-care workers in Saskatchewan are being offered the COVID-19 vaccines right now, but it seems some are declining the offer. Scott Livingstone, CEO of the Saskatchewan Health Au...
Jan 13, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
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)
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Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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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...