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COVID, influenza each claim four more lives in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan reported four deaths due to each of COVID-19 and influenza in the final two weeks of December. According to the Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program report issued Friday by ...
Jan 05, 2024
Premier Scott Moe looks back at 2023 and ahead to 2024
An election year looms for Premier Scott Moe as 2023 turns to 2024. The past 12 months have been marked by ongoing battles with the federal government and a controversial fight on the home front. But ...
Dec 30, 2023 Premier Scott Moe us looking back at 2023 and looking ahead to what 2024 might bring. Dec. 28, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. records 13 influenza deaths as flu, COVID cases decline
While COVID-19 cases continue to decline in Saskatchewan, the flu has claimed 13 more lives. According to the latest respiratory illness report from the Ministry of Health, COVID cases dropped for the...
Dec 22, 2023
SHA releases plan to ease capacity woes at Regina hospitals
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has released a plan to address capacity issues in Regina hospitals, one month after a similar plan for Saskatoon was announced. On Thursday, the SHA issued the Regina...
Dec 21, 2023 The Pasqua and General hospitals have been dealing with capacity issues. (980 CJME file photo)
Province pushing ahead with plan for more addiction treatment spaces
Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health is pushing ahead with its plan to add 500 new addictions treatment spaces to the province. On Wednesday, the ministry announced that a request for supplier qualificat...
Dec 20, 2023
Health authority recruiting staff in Saskatoon to help struggling hospitals
The Saskatchewan Health Authority says it's recruiting for more than 300 positions in order to help Saskatoon's struggling hospitals. The health authority announced its Saskatoon Capacity Pressure Act...
Dec 19, 2023
NDP says obstetrical disruptions on the rise throughout Sask.
Saskatchewan's NDP is calling on the provincial government to do something about the number of obstetrical disruptions the health-care system has seen over the last several years. The issue is current...
Dec 15, 2023
Portable MRI coming to Regina to help reduce waiting list
With many in Saskatchewan waiting hundreds of days for MRI scans, the provincial health ministry is introducing a new tool. A mobile MRI will be deployed to Regina next year and will stay there for 24...
Dec 14, 2023
Ottawa's $13-billion dental plan to be slowly phased in through 2024
Canada's new federal dental insurance plan will be gradually phased in throughout the coming year, with the first claims expected to be processed in May. The federal government announced details of th...
Dec 11, 2023
Saskatoon care homes still using anti-psychotics and restraints: Auditor's report
A handful of Saskatoon-and-area special-care homes are not meeting regulations set out by the Ministry of Health. The Saskatchewan's provincial auditor, Tara Clemett, found that the homes were using a...
Dec 11, 2023 Reports from the 2023 audit worsened since 2019 for three measures (residents in daily restraints, use of anti-psychotics and pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores). (File photo)
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Sarah Mills: Trudeau's behaviour after leaving office isn't endearing him to the public
Sarah Mills says the former PM has skied with a prince, appeared on Instagram with a backwards cap alongside his popstar...
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