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Regina police dole out $2,800 ticket for violation of COVID-19 public health order
The Regina Police Service has handed out its first ticket for a violation of the public health order instituted by the provincial government to stop the potential spread of COVID-19. In a media releas...
Apr 06, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Four new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan; total now 253
Saskatchewan announced Monday its lowest single-day total of COVID-19 cases in more than two weeks. The provincial government revealed there were four new confirmed cases of the virus in the province....
Apr 06, 2020 Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Police, fire deal with explosion at Estevan business
Connor Barnstable's Facebook page may have been more popular than normal Monday. Barnstable works at Performance Machining in Estevan's east end, just south of Fourth Street and the bridge leading tow...
Apr 06, 2020 An Estevan fire truck races toward the scene of a major fire at a business in the southeast corner of the city. (Discover Estevan)
Non-medical masks can keep people with COVID-19 from spreading it, Tam says
OTTAWA - Wearing a simple cloth mask is a way for someone who might have COVID-19 without realizing it to avoid spreading the illness to others, Canada's top public-health doctor said Monday. Dr. Ther...
Apr 06, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Home-based daycares in financial limbo as families pull kids out
With more families keeping their kids home during the COVID-19 pandemic, many home-based daycare providers are falling through the cracks because they don't qualify for emergency benefits or wage supp...
Apr 06, 2020 Carla Myers runs a home-based daycare in Regina. (Carla Myers/Submitted)
Early-morning fire in Regina leads to arson charge
A 30-year-old man from Edmonton has been charged with arson after a fire in south Regina early Monday. According to the Regina Police Service, officers and Regina firefighters responded at about 1:20 ...
Apr 06, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Impressions of America, in a word: Trump, president, chaos, in that order
WASHINGTON - Canadians, it seems, had a number of choice words for the United States last year - and most of them revolved around President Donald Trump. The Washington-based Pew Research Center asked...
Apr 06, 2020 (AP file photo/ Evan Vucci)
Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - More than 300,000 out-of-work Canadians successfully applied for pandemic-related emergency relief in the first few hours after the application process began Monday, and Ottawa says it will s...
Apr 06, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
As COVID-19 triggers survival instinct, unwise decisions can result
MONTREAL - When a Quebec couple recently travelled to the far reaches of Yukon in a bid to escape the novel coronavirus, only to be turned away, it seemed a textbook case of pandemic-generated panic. ...
Apr 06, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
SUN, SHA differ on availability of personal protective equipment
The head of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) claims that personal protective equipment, or PPE, is being rationed and that access to information nurses need is also in short supply. PPE is in hu...
Apr 06, 2020
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Sarah Mills: School supply lists should be eradicated
Between 18 school divisions and the Ministry of Education, Sarah Mills says there must be a better way to procure pencil...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, July 28
8:30 - Finding a family doctor in Saskatchewan could soon become easier, with the province considering a centralized pat...