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Mayfair Hardware closing after more than 70 years in business
Saskatoon is losing a piece of retail history. Mayfair Hardware on 33rd Street is closing up shop after a seven-decade run serving the community. "On behalf of Bruce Thomas, owner of Mayfair Hardware,...
May 04, 2020 Many customers looking to support Mayfair Hardware for the final time lined around the store on May 4, 2020. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Snowbirds fly over Nova Scotia to mark naval helicopter crash, mass shooting
HALIFAX - The famed Snowbirds aerobatics team is flying over Nova Scotia communities today in an effort to remember lost comrades in a naval helicopter crash and to lift the spirits of a province stru...
May 03, 2020
Security guards in high demand, face more stress on job during COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an enormous demand for security guards, whose job descriptions have been expanded to include temperature checks, grocery store crowd control and - in at least one cas...
May 03, 2020
Civil service saw COVID-19 benefit programs as ‘Dunkirk’-style rescue effort
OTTAWA - It was a sunny March 18 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented the government's first big attempt at containing the economic fallout from COVID-19 in the form of an $82-billion rescue p...
May 03, 2020
Chiefs concerned about mental health impacts of COVID-19 in their First Nations
OTTAWA - A few months before the novel coronavirus arrived in Canada, the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation at Loon Lake, Sask. was already raising the alarm over suicides in the community, about 360 kil...
May 03, 2020 Chief Ron Mitsuing of the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation poses for a photo at the Legislative Building in Regina on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. A few months before the novel coronavirus arrived in Canada, the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation at Loon Lake, Sask. was already raising the alarm over suicides in the community, about 360 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor
Owner of Regina gun shop reacts to ban on 'assault-style' weapons
The owner of a Regina gun store is wondering what to do with a bulk of his inventory, now that the federal government has banned what it considers "assault-style" firearms. Darryl Schemenauer runs TnT...
May 02, 2020
A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown
Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: Newfoundland and Labrador ...
May 02, 2020
Doctor has some concerns over Sask. re-opening plan
As Saskatchewan gets set to begin to re-open businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one Saskatoon physician is cautiously optimistic about the plan. On May 4, other medical businesses such as dentists...
May 02, 2020
Lloydminster facing unique challenge as it weighs differing COVID-19 orders
A growing COVID-19 outbreak in Lloydminster has plenty of extra attention on the usually quiet city. On Wednesday, the Saskatchewan Health Authority announced an outbreak of 13 positive cases linked t...
May 01, 2020
Lawn care companies see minimal effect from COVID-19
While most industries in the country have been slowed down or even stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic, lawn care is one of the few that has been able to keep operating with just a few changes. Simon Tay...
May 01, 2020 (L to R) Simon Taylor, owner of Weed Man in Regina, and technicians Kyle Kissick and Isa Haque. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: World Cup dreams are made
The score may not have been ideal, but Sarah Mills says the World Cup experience was everything she hoped it would be.
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8:30 - Another school year has wrapped up, and report cards are out! Everett Hindley, Saskatchewan's Minister of Educati...