Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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'Underwater,' 'overwhelmed': Doctors presentation paints dire picture of Sask. health care
On Thursday, the Saskatchewan government announced a loosening of the isolation rules around COVID-19 while talking about learning to live with the virus. Just a few hours later, doctors in the provin...
Jan 28, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
Health authority starting process of moving patients in city hospitals to rural areas
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is working through its plans to manage the increased demands on hospitals due to Omicron, and part of that is moving patients around. Derek Miller, interim chie...
Jan 28, 2022
Saskatchewan changes COVID-related self-isolation requirements
Saskatchewan is changing the rules around isolation as it tries to move the province's residents towards living with COVID-19 like any other respiratory virus. "We're moving gradually to living with C...
Jan 27, 2022 Health Minister Paul Merriman. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Local markets feeling inflation and supply crunch in a different way
Even though the places local markets get their products tend to be within a day's drive, they're still seeing effects from recent inflation and supply chain issues related to weather and international...
Jan 27, 2022 The Local and Fresh market in Regina. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Urban patients could be moved to rural centres as hospitalizations rise
Saskatchewan's premier and health minister both are expecting hospitalizations to keep going up while the province goes through a fifth COVID-19 wave and -- while not putting in any new health measure...
Jan 24, 2022 Health Minister Paul Merriman. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Data problem responsible for 2 weeks without COVID deaths
With an update to the COVID-19 dashboard on Friday, the province revealed a data problem has kept multiple deaths, dozens of hospital cases, and thousands of resolved cases and negative PCR tests off ...
Jan 21, 2022 Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Government looking for as many as 500 employees to be redeployed in COVID surge
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Saskatchewan and the premier is keeping his hand on the brakes of any new public health orders, the provincial emergency operations centre (PEOC) is preparing for...
Jan 21, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
'Hanging on by a thread': Local restaurant asks for customer support
There aren't as many burgers on the grill or milkshakes in the glasses at The Mercury Cafe & Grill these days. Business at the Cathedral-area diner is suffering nearly two years into the COVID-19 ...
Jan 19, 2022 The Mercury Cafe & Grill in Regina on Jan. 19, 2022. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. Party insider appointed to SHA executive raises concerns
Eyebrows are being raised around the province at a long-time Sask. Party insider who was given a job alongside top leadership of the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA). Raynelle Wilson, who seemingly...
Jan 17, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
SHA closely watching COVID outbreaks in long-term care
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is paying attention and watching closely what COVID-19 is doing in long-term and personal care homes in the province, according to the authority's interim COO, Derek ...
Jan 16, 2022 Parkside Extendicare long-term care home in Regina. Feb. 2, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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