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Privacy issues force temporary removal of QR codes from vaccination records
Four days after being launched, QR codes are temporarily being removed from Saskatchewan residents' COVID-19 vaccination records due to privacy issues. The Government of Saskatchewan said Friday after...
Sep 24, 2021 (Government of Saskatchewan/Supplied)
Saskatchewan gov't to cover cost of new cystic fibrosis drug
Saskatchewan residents living with cystic fibrosis got some help from the provincial government Friday. In a media release, the government said it would start providing coverage on Oct. 1 for Trikafta...
Sep 24, 2021 The provincial government is preparing to start moving a controversial policy around student's names and pronoun in schools into law on Tuesday (File photo)
Alleged graffiti artist collared by Regina police
What the Regina police called "a specific stylized instance of graffiti" has led to 33 charges of mischief against a 25-year-old Regina man. In a media release Friday, the Regina Police Service said i...
Sep 24, 2021 A 22 year-old male is facing 11 charges related to possession of weapons and assaulting a police officer. (980 CJME file photo)
COVID situation in Sask. hospitals could get worse before it gets better
Saskatchewan hit another record high for COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions on Friday, and it's expected things will keep getting worse. "I would say, broadly speaking, our health system is ...
Sep 24, 2021
Latest COVID update Sept. 24: 528 new cases, 276 in hospital, 5 deaths
Numbers continued to rise across the COVID-19 board in Saskatchewan on Friday. The totals of hospitalizations and ICU patients again set records, the number of new cases was the second-highest ever re...
Sep 24, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/980 CJME file photo)
Sask. school boards considering mandatory COVID vaccinations for staff
Groups have been calling for mandatory vaccinations in Saskatchewan schools for a while, and some divisions could soon be heading in that direction. The Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA) h...
Sep 24, 2021 Two organizations are threatening legal action if the Saskatchewan government doesn't alter its new policies surrounding students' chosen pronouns in schools. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Detained Huawei exec reaches deal with U.S. justice officials
Canada's diplomatic dispute with China over Meng Wanzhou may be nearing its conclusion. The Huawei chief financial officer has been under house arrest in Vancouver since December of 2018 while awaitin...
Sep 24, 2021 Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. (THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO/Darryl Dyck)
Saskatchewan reaches 80% mark for first doses of COVID vaccines
Saskatchewan has reached a milestone in its response to COVID-19. In a media release Friday, the provincial government said 80 per cent of all residents who are eligible to get their first dose of a C...
Sep 24, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Regina teen facing multiple charges after almost hitting an officer
A 16-year-old Regina boy is facing more than half a dozen charges in what police are calling an "unpredictable" situation. On Wednesday at around 12:30 a.m., a constable in the Canine Unit was driving...
Sep 24, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Effect of health-care slowdown worries SHA
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is in the middle of putting the brakes on most surgeries and services in the province to try to make enough room for COVID-19 patients today and in the near future. A...
Sep 24, 2021 Saskatchewan Health Authority chief medical officer Dr. Susan Shaw. (980 CJME)
OPINION
Sarah Mills: What does offence really mean?
Sarah Mills says we live in a world where everyone seems offended by something. But who gets decide what is and isn't of...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, August 20
On Thursday's show, guest host Brent Loucks updated the tariff situation in Canada, talks transit rules in Saskatoon and...