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Author Archives: Lisa Schick
Suicide rate down in Sask., attributed to ‘pulling together phenomenon’
While there has been a lot of bad news coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems fewer people have decided to take their lives into their own hands. Deaths by suicide were down about 35 per cent i...
Feb 05, 2021 (Tyler Black)
Shelters in Regina making it work through pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has made a lot of things harder, but shelters in Regina have been able to keep serving their clients this winter. Mobile Crisis can help find resources for people in need, like s...
Feb 05, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
COVID-19 outbreak at Yorkton Regional Health Centre grows to 90 cases
A COVID-19 outbreak that started in mid-January at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre has grown to 90 cases, nearly doubling in the past week. The Saskatchewan Health Authority said the 90 cases linke...
Feb 04, 2021 (City of Yorkton/Facebook)
NDP calling for end to for-profit care homes in Sask.
The Saskatchewan NDP is calling the treatment of seniors in long-term care under the pandemic a failure. Matt Love, the NDP critic for seniors, said the provincial government failed to act on what he ...
Feb 02, 2021 NDP Leader Ryan Meili. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Province explains removal of COVID deaths from count
On Wednesday, the province announced in its daily COVID-19 update that three people who had previously been counted as deaths related to the virus were being removed from the count. The news release s...
Jan 22, 2021
NDP calls for investigation into Extendicare finances
Saskatchewan's NDP thinks the financials for the Extendicare company should be included in the promised investigation into the Parkside Extendicare COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreak at Parkside included...
Jan 22, 2021 Parkside Extendicare care home in Regina. (Logan Stein/980 CJME file photo)
Judge rejects long-term offender designation in child porn case
A Saskatoon judge has declined to declare a man convicted of having child pornography a long-term offender because the circumstances around him and his crimes are too severe. Gabriel Curtis Roy recent...
Jan 21, 2021
Eyebrows raise across the province at Regina executive committee decision
It's not just some within Regina's city limits with strong opinions about a recent executive committee decision at City Hall. Many across the province have been left shaking their heads as well. On We...
Jan 21, 2021
Saskatchewan set to work with Biden administration: Moe
Premier Scott Moe says his government is ready to get down to business with Joe Biden's administration. Moe issued a statement Wednesday following Biden's inauguration in which the premier said he hop...
Jan 20, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Weyburn hospital closed to non-COVID patients
People who aren't feeling well in Weyburn are going to have to go somewhere other than the Weyburn General Hospital. The Saskatchewan Health Authority has decided to move the hospital to care only for...
Jan 20, 2021 (Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation Inc./Facebook)
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Canada is getting a taste of FIFA's World Cup demands
Sarah Mills says a full motorcade with a police escort for the FIFA president is unnecessary, but it shows that the orga...
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8:30 - Drivers are yet again feeling the pinch at the gas pump. Prices have climbed almost 20 cents per litre at some st...