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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)
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
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
Humboldt Broncos families to quietly mark anniversary of Saskatchewan bus crash
The second anniversary of a devastating Saskatchewan bus crash will be a quiet one for the still-mourning families as the COVID-19 crisis holds the country in its grip. Sixteen people died and 13 were...
Apr 06, 2020
Meili encouraging citizens to wear masks to mitigate spread of COVID-19
Saskatchewan NDP leader Ryan Meili is encouraging people to wear a mask in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19, as long as the face coverings are not those that would be needed by health care w...
Apr 05, 2020 NDP Leader Ryan Meili on March 18, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
‘It’s like ghost towns:’ Canada’s border communities adapt to COVID-19 changes
When the mayor of a village in southern Alberta stares across the border, he sees family and friends who just happen to call Montana home. The port of entry between Coutts, Alta., and Sweet Grass, Mon...
Apr 05, 2020 Canadian and American flags fly near the Ambassador Bridge at the Canada/USA border crossing in Windsor, Ont. on March 21, 2020. When the mayor of a village in southern Alberta stares across the border, he sees family and friends who just happen to call Montana home. The port of entry between Coutts, Alta., and Sweet Grass, Mont., is one of the busiest on the Canada-United States border, an important crossing on a trade route starting in Mexico. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rob Gurdebeke
Singer Pink says she had COVID-19, gives $1M to relief funds
LOS ANGELES - The singer Pink had tested positive for COVID-19, she said Friday, also announcing that she is donating $500,000 each to two emergency funds. In a pair of tweets, she said she and her th...
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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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