Murray Wood: Who's hot and who's not
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Sask. Health Authority clarifying circumstances around expired PPE
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is still looking for someone to help recycle what's likely thousands of pieces of expired PPE, but now it's giving a bit more information about why. Originally,...
Mar 13, 2024 The Saskatchewan Health Authority has a number of pieces of personal protective equipment that have passed their expiry date. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fernando Llano)
Saskatchewan heading to final at 2024 Montana's Brier
With another win in the books and a berth in the final clinched, Saskatchewan took another step in the direction of ending the province's decades-long drought at the Brier. Saskatchewan's Mike McEwen ...
Mar 10, 2024 Saskatchewan's Mike McEwen beat Alberta's Brendan Bottcher in the Montana's Brier semifinal on Sunday. (Michael Burns/Curling Canada)
McEwen edges Dunstone to advance to Brier semifinal
Saskatchewan's Mike McEwen is walking on the edge at the 2024 Montana's Brier this weekend, but he's staying upright, hanging on Saturday with a 6-5 win against Matt Dunstone's Manitoba rink. The loss...
Mar 09, 2024 Colton Flasch (left) and Kevin Marsh sweep a rock during Saturday's 3-4 Page playoff game. (Michael Burns/Curling Canada)
Record-tying game keeps Saskatchewan alive at the Brier
Saskatchewan's Mike McEwen stayed alive at the 2024 Montana's Brier on Friday night with a 7-0 win over Jamie Koe of the Northwest Territories at the Brandt Centre. A loss would have eliminated McEwen...
Mar 08, 2024 Mike McEwen advanced to the 3-4 Page playoff game with a 7-0 win over Jamie Koe of the Northwest Territories. (Michael Burns/Curling Canada)
McEwen drops 1-2 qualifier to Bottcher at Montana's Brier
Saskatchewan suffered only its second loss of the 2024 Montana's Brier on Friday, but it can't afford another one. Mike McEwen's Saskatoon Nutana foursome lost 9-7 to Alberta's Brendan Bottcher in a 1...
Mar 08, 2024 Mike McEwen lost his first game of the playoff round Friday at the Montana's Brier. (Michael Burns/Curling Canada)
Trust at issue as Moe, STF dance over new education budget promise
Millions more in education dollars still aren't getting the province's teachers back to the table in their contract dispute with the Government of Saskatchewan. On Wednesday evening, Premier Scott Moe...
Mar 07, 2024 Premier Scott Moe commits to not reducing education funding from the level in the upcoming budget, as long as he forms government. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan gov't defends appeal of pronoun law decision
The Saskatchewan government is looking to stop arguments against its pronoun law before they even start - it's appealing a recent decision that would allow a case against the legislation to go ahead. ...
Mar 06, 2024 Justice Minister Bronwyn Eyre says she has sent letters to the attorneys general of other provinces to see if they want to join the Saskatchewan government's appeal of the recent decision allowing arguments to be heard against the pronoun law. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Decade-long discipline saga involving P.A. lawyer appears over
Peter V. Abrametz and the Law Society of Saskatchewan have been fighting since 2012, but now it appears it's over. The investigation started over irregularities in the use of a trust account. The day ...
Mar 06, 2024 The discipline case involving a Prince Albert lawyer began back in 2012. (paNOW file photo)
Province to foot the bill for mandatory Saskatchewan flags at schools
Some of the details are becoming more clear after the provincial government made a change to flag requirements at schools. In the fall, included in the Parents' Bill of Rights -- which made the pronou...
Feb 23, 2024 It appears the provincial government is going to bear the cost of its legislative change around flags at schools from last fall. (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. Health Authority looking to recycle 'a large amount' of expired PPE
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is trying to find someone to recycle what it described as "a large amount" of expired personal protective equipment (PPE) from the COVID-19 pandemic response. The SHA...
Feb 22, 2024 The Saskatchewan Health Authority has a number of pieces of personal protective equipment that have passed their expiry date. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fernando Llano)
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