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'It does take a toll': Saskatoon police officer isolates for fourth time after on-duty COVID exposure
Imagine stopping a dangerous crime or saving someone's life after an overdose, only to have to immediately isolate away from your family for two weeks. For many police officers, that is a reality. Cst...
Apr 12, 2021
Latest COVID update April 11: Record high vaccines given, cases continue to rise
It was another mixed bag of highs and lows for Saskatchewan released in the latest COVID update. The Ministry of Health reported Sunday that, for the third straight day in a row, a record number of da...
Apr 11, 2021 (The Canadian Press file photo)
Canada nearing peak of second wave of COVID-19, Tam says as Ontario sets case record
Canada's chief public health officer says the country is nearing the peak of the second wave of COVID-19, as several provinces are struggling to contain new outbreaks. Dr. Theresa Tam's statement come...
Apr 11, 2021
Canadian special forces supported major Iraqi military assault on ISIL last month
OTTAWA - The commander of Canada's special forces says his soldiers supported a major military offensive last month that U.S. and Iraqi officials say killed dozens of Islamic State fighters. The two-w...
Apr 11, 2021
Bouquet-bearing public honours Philip, ignoring COVID warning
LONDON - British authorities have implored people to stay away from royal palaces as they mourn the death of Prince Philip in this time of COVID-19, but they keep coming. Not just to honour him, but t...
Apr 11, 2021
The COVID-19 wasteland: searching for clues to the pandemic in the sewers
OTTAWA - When Ottawa Public Health officials are trying to decide whether restrictions in the city need to tighten up, they look to the normal markers like positive tests, patients in hospital, and ou...
Apr 11, 2021
Severe storm damages buildings in Florida Panhandle
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - A cluster of severe storms swept across the South early Saturday, leaving one person dead in Louisiana, toppling trees and power lines in Mississippi, dropping large hail on an Ala...
Apr 11, 2021
Lumsden falls short in Kraft Hockeyville voting
Lumsden has come up short in its bid to be Kraft Hockeyville. The Saskatchewan community was one of four finalists in the contest, but lost to Elsipogtog First Nation, N.B., in online voting that was ...
Apr 10, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. doctors express frustration at COVID measures, say more needs to be done
A group of 285 Saskatchewan doctors have came together to send a letter to the provincial government asking it to do more in the fight against COVID. This is not the first letter to be issued to Premi...
Apr 10, 2021 Specimens to be tested for COVID-19 are seen in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 26, 2020. For the last four months, Canada's public health experts have been racing to stop the spread of COVID-19 by trying to figure out how everyone is getting it, and who they may have given it to. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Latest COVID update April 10: Sask. sets another vaccination record, 236 new cases, no new deaths
For the second time in as many days, the province doled out its highest daily number of COVID-19 vaccination doses Saturday. In its daily update, the Ministry of Health reported 12,615 vaccine doses w...
Apr 10, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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Sarah Mills: Not every travel horror story is the airline's fault
Sarah Mills says a pregnant Winnipeg woman is disappointed in her WestJet experience after she made the choice to seek h...
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