Sarah Mills: Investigation into security at Canada's major airports gives pause for thought
Sarah Mills says a W5 investigation into alleged violence, trafficking and organized crime at Canada's busiest airport s...
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Community spread of COVID-19 within Canada taking over as main threat, Tam says
OTTAWA - Canada's chief medical health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says overall in Canada, an equal number of Canadians who have tested positive for COVID-19 contracted the virus from travel and from tran...
Mar 24, 2020 Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Dr. Theresa Tam arrives for a press conference on COVID-19 at West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 24, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Six more COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan bring total to 72
Saskatchewan has 72 confirmed cases of COVID-19 after six new cases were announced Tuesday. Two of the 72 cases are under the age of 19, 11 are 65 or older and 59 are between the ages of 20 and 64. Th...
Mar 24, 2020 Dr. Saqib Shahab, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
CHL cancels playoffs, Memorial Cup over COVID-19
For the first time in 102 years there will be no Memorial Cup champion, as the Canadian Hockey League decided in partnership with Canada's three major-junior hockey leagues to cancel their respective ...
Mar 24, 2020 Game 4 of the Memorial Cup Presented by Kia between the Guelph Storm and the Prince Albert Raiders on Tuesday, May 21th, 2019 in Halifax, Nova scotia, Canada. (Photo by Vincent Ethier/LHJMQ/CHL)
Parks Canada to close national parks, historic sites to vehicle traffic
Parks Canada is restricting vehicles in national parks and historic sites after people flocked to the popular areas on the weekend. The federal agency said it's still noticing lots of visitors despite...
Mar 24, 2020
Jamie Nye: Oh, to be back mocking the Leafs again
I was pondering what kind of trivial distraction we were talking about in the world of sports a month ago, before COVID-19 took over our lives and sports went black. David Ayres is the answer. I went ...
Mar 24, 2020
Preparing for battle: Doctor on front lines shares how health care is changing
TORONTO - Each morning when Dr. Seema Marwaha is preparing for work, she thinks about her husband, her 15-month-old son and the possibility she could bring home a dangerous virus. Like health-care pro...
Mar 24, 2020 Dr. Seema Marwaha. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Gregory Brandsma
Fear over COVID-19 strikes Sask. uranium sector
Two large-scale uranium project sites in Saskatchewan are going on hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cameco is temporarily suspending operations at its Cigar Lake mine in northern Saskatchewan;...
Mar 24, 2020 The McArthur River mine. (Cameco)
Tokyo Olympics officially postponed until 2021
TOKYO - The Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021 on Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation that the games could not go ahead as scheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The International Olymp...
Mar 24, 2020 (The Associated Press)
China to lift lockdown in most of virus-hit Hubei province
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities said Tuesday they will end a two-month lockdown of most of coronavirus-hit Hubei province at midnight, as domestic cases of the virus continue to subside. People wit...
Mar 24, 2020 In this March 23, 2020 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, workers disinfect a subway train in preparation for the restoration of public transport in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. China's health ministry says Wuhan has now gone several consecutive days without a new infection, showing the effectiveness of draconian travel restrictions that are slowly being relaxed around the country. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via AP)
City Hospital night staff find ‘thank you’ message in the snow
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads and healthcare workers prepare for worst case scenarios in hospitals across Saskatchewan, messages of gratitude are spreading online. However, it was an anonymous phys...
Mar 23, 2020
OPINION
Murray Wood: The most charming words kids say are usually the wrong ones
Kids mispronounce the funniest things. And Murray Wood thinks that sometimes, parents shouldn't rush to fix them.
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, May 22
On Friday's show, Evan speaks with a Saskatchewan runner who is planning to run the vertical length of Saskatchewan (abo...