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Latest COVID update Oct. 8: 576 new cases, including 147 kids under 12
More than a quarter of the new COVID-19 cases reported in Saskatchewan on Friday were children aged 11 and under. There were 576 new cases announced, including 147 kids under 12. That age group isn't ...
Oct 08, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
SUN worried about new provincial command for COVID
The head of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses isn't sure a "provincial command centre" is what the government should be worried about right now. On Thursday morning, Premier Scott Moe announced that pr...
Oct 08, 2021 Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory. (650 CKOM file photo)
Editorial cartoon depicting Broncos tragedy becomes Canada Post stamp
An editorial cartoon published in the wake of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has been made into a stamp by Canada Post. Bruce MacKinnon, an editorial cartoonist at the Halifax Chronicle Herald, drew t...
Oct 08, 2021 (Canada Post)
Saskatchewan's unemployment rate drops in September
Saskatchewan recorded the largest month-to-month drop in unemployment rate in Canada in September. According to job numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada, the province's unemployment rate went ...
Oct 08, 2021
Nearly 90 per cent of employees fully vaccinated, say Regina police
The vaccine policy for the Regina Police Service (RPS) has been in effect for about a week now. As of Oct. 4, employees of the police force had to show proof of vaccination or face rapid testing. "At ...
Oct 08, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan not asking for COVID-19 help, yet
Saskatchewan hospitals are full of COVID patients and on Thursday there were 78 people reported in ICU, which is one off the number of ICU beds the province has on a normal day. But at a news conferen...
Oct 08, 2021 Premier Scott Moe. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
With no gathering limits, residents decide how to spend long weekend
Dwayne Meertins arrived in Regina from the Netherlands only a few weeks ago. For his first Thanksgiving, he plans to have a small dinner with friends, keeping his contacts small. "These get-togethers ...
Oct 07, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Man found dead in Moose Jaw police holding cell
A 40-year-old man was found dead in a Moose Jaw Police Service holding cell Thursday morning. According to the Moose Jaw Police Service, officers had been in conversation with the man minutes before h...
Oct 07, 2021 (Discover Moose Jaw)
Latest COVID update Oct. 7: 241 missing cases added, daily total at 650
The Saskatchewan government has added 241 previously missing cases of COVID-19 to the province's total. As a result, the Ministry of Health reported 650 new cases Thursday, which would be the highest ...
Oct 07, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Rules of the road: SGI to require proof of vaccination before road tests
Saskatchewan residents who want a shot at a driver's licence are going to need a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. SGI announced Thursday that proof of vaccination -- or a recent negative COVID test -- will...
Oct 07, 2021
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Sarah Mills: Seek out Tinned Fish Reviews
Social media can sometimes be a pit of nastiness, but Sarah Mills says there are some accounts that bring nothing but jo...
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