Murray Wood: With just a bit more attention to detail, Kinsmen Park could be pretty perfect
There were people in Kinsmen Park paid to be working the other morning, so Murray Wood wonders why the litter wasn't pic...
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Saskatoon Fire Department says City Centre Inn and Suites faced dozens of complaints and violations since 2014
Over the last six years alone, there have been dozens of complaints and violations at the City Centre Inn and Suites in Saskatoon. Assistant Fire Chief Yvonne Raymond tells 650 CKOM that there have be...
Jul 24, 2020
Health experts tell Ottawa to hurry domestic vaccine funding amid China delays
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is being pressed to approve funding for a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine to lessen the risk Canadians will have to line up and wait on a foreign-made pandemic cure. Fo...
Jul 24, 2020
Local photographers see huge amount of business shift to 2021
Courtney Liske has seen COVID-19 take away a significant amount of business this year. The owner and lead photographer for Courtney Liske Photography, Liske said the majority of events she and her hus...
Jul 24, 2020 (Courtney Liske Photography/Submitted)
SHA advisory warns of possible COVID-19 exposures at more Swift Current businesses
The Saskatchewan Health Authority issued an advisory late Thursday about possible exposure to COVID-19 at four Swift Current businesses on July 14. According to the authority, a person who subsequentl...
Jul 24, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief: No one should have to live in conditions found at City Centre Inn
Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand said over the years he'd "heard stories" about the conditions many long-term residents at the City Centre Inn on Idylwyld Drive experienced, but he doesn't b...
Jul 24, 2020
‘Black mold, mice, cockroaches, bed bugs, gangsters:’ evictees tell their side of conditions at City Centre Inn
Robert Deimling and his girlfriend Danesha Clarke were shocked to come home to see a green flyer Wednesday, saying they were to be out of their suite by 3 p.m. Thursday. The pair says they had been li...
Jul 23, 2020
SHA issues a COVID-19 advisory for the RMs of Cut Knife and Hillsdale
In a release, the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) said it is issuing an advisory about an increase in community transmission of COVID-19 in the Rural Municipalities of Cut Knife and Hillsdale with...
Jul 23, 2020
SHA working towards reducing COVID-19 test wait times
A physician executive with the Saskatchewan Health Authority doesn't dispute that some seeking a COVID-19 test have to wait. But Dr. Paul Babyn tells Gormley that stories about people waiting a week t...
Jul 23, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
16th Sask. resident dies after positive COVID-19 test; active cases reach all-time high
A 16th Saskatchewan resident has died following a positive test for COVID-19. In a media release Thursday, the provincial government said a person in their 60s from the north region had died. It's the...
Jul 23, 2020 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
Some Sask. parents not prepared to send children back to class until plan finalized
A number of Saskatchewan parents are calling for a better return-to-school plan before they'll be willing to send their kids back to the classroom. When the province largely went into COVID-19 lockdow...
Jul 23, 2020
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Sarah Mills: A staged photo op in Team Canada jerseys can't hide the political cracks
As the western premiers meeting wrapped up in Kananaskis, Sarah Mills says the tensions were evident, and couldn't be hi...
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