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...
Tag Archives: COVID-19
Parades, close-ups with Mickey out as Disney World reopens
ORLANDO, Fla. - Forget about up-close "meet-and-greet" sessions with Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck when Walt Disney World parks reopen. There will be no firework shows or parades - those would draw too ...
Jul 09, 2020 Cars drive under a sign greeting visitors near the entrance to Walt Disney World on July 2, 2020. AP Photo/John Raoux
Feds promise recovery will focus on people hurt most by COVID-19 economic crisis
OTTAWA - Fixing the social and economic gaps that left women, young people and racialized Canadians to suffer the biggest economic blows from the COVID-19 pandemic is a top priority in the recovery ef...
Jul 09, 2020 Minister of Finance Bill Morneau. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
SHA warning of possible COVID-19 transmission in Lloydminster
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has issued an advisory saying a person who later tested positive for COVID-19 recently visited locations in Lloydminster when that individual likely was infectious. I...
Jul 09, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Saskatoon curling club that had March COVID-19 case responds to return to play guidelines
Curling Canada released a 29-page document, outlining guidelines for return to play Tuesday. The changes include sweeping rules, on-ice player positioning with respect to physically distancing and a c...
Jul 08, 2020
1,000 masks and counting: Saskatoon retiree says as long as there’s demand, she will keep sewing
She's been sewing since she was a teenager, or as Sherry Gizen says: "I'm talking 40 years." The 59-year-old mainly retired, part-time Air Canada Jazz employee said it was in March when the COVID-19 p...
Jul 08, 2020
SEIU-West concerned about communication on new visitation rules
This week, more people can go see their loved ones at more Saskatchewan health-care facilities, but the visiting changes have one of the province’s largest health-care unions concerned. Barbara ...
Jul 08, 2020
SaskTel takes hit from pandemic in 2019-20 annual report
SaskTel is still calling the last year a strong one, despite bites taken out of its bottom line by the COVID-19 pandemic. The company made about $130.3 million in net income, but the pandemic took abo...
Jul 08, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Two new COVID-19 cases, nine more recoveries in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan reported two new cases of COVID-19 and nine more recoveries on Wednesday. The new cases -- one in the north and one in the Saskatoon region -- increased the provincial total to date to 80...
Jul 08, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Cathedral Social Hall adjusting to changes due to COVID-19
The Cathedral Social Hall in Regina is one of many restaurants navigating through the changing restrictions due to COVID-19. Restaurants were able to open on June 8 as part of Phase 3 of the province'...
Jul 08, 2020 (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME file photo)
Man who lost father to COVID-19 urges public to honour ‘social contract’
As parts of Canada grapple with whether masks should be made mandatory, a Regina man who lost his father to COVID-19 in April says people have an obligation to protect each other. Paul Gullacher's fat...
Jul 08, 2020 (Paul Gullacher/Facebook)
OPINION
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...
LATEST WEATHER
TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, May 27
8:30 - As the province sits under a heat wave, cities are now grappling with the worsening homelessness and overdose cri...