Sarah Mills: Speeding tickets three months after the fact are no deterrent
Sarah Mills says photo radar tickets that come from Calgary months after the offence is not going to teach anyone a less...
Tag Archives: health
COVID deaths continue to decline: Sask. health ministry
Recent weeks have seen a downward trend when it comes to COVID-related deaths in Saskatchewan. The latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program (CRISP) report from Saskatchewan's Ministry...
Apr 27, 2023
Take steps to reduce hantavirus risk during spring cleaning: Health ministry
Spring cleaning is underway around Saskatchewan, but the provincial health ministry is warning cleaners to be aware of the risk of hantavirus while working in enclosed spaces. According to the Ministr...
Apr 25, 2023
Emergency medical services to see more funding, staff thanks to budget increase
Emergency medical services (EMS) are set to improve in a number of Saskatchewan communities. An $8.8-million increase to annual funding - announced in the 2023-24 provincial budget - will bring EMS im...
Apr 19, 2023
Group advocating for universal coverage of contraceptives in Sask.
Inflation affecting the basic costs of every-day items has left people re-evaluating what products are “necessities” to purchase. A new advocacy group in Saskatchewan doesn't want to see p...
Apr 19, 2023
Memo shows government muzzling health-care workers: NDP
The opposition NDP claims the Saskatchewan Party is trying to muzzle health-care workers from speaking out after getting ahold of a Saskatchewan Health Authority memo. The memo was sent to SHA staff i...
Apr 19, 2023 The Sask. NDP's Vicki Mowat says the provincial government is trying to muzzle health-care workers, pointing to a memo sent when the NDP in Lanigan on its health-care tour. April 18, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan reports 10 COVID deaths, one flu death in past two weeks
Saskatchewan announced 10 deaths due to COVID-19 and one due to influenza in its latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program report. In the biweekly report issued Thursday, the Ministry ...
Apr 13, 2023
Hundreds of Filipino nurses committed to joining Sask. workforce, ministry says
Saskatchewan is taking steps to add more nurses and health-care workers to the provincial workforce, and a recent recruitment mission to the Philippines has brought some success. Paul Merriman, Saskat...
Apr 06, 2023
Sask. reducing barriers for internationally educated health-care workers
Saskatchewan is looking to make it easier for people trained outside of Saskatchewan to get their credentials recognized in the province, with a move the provincial government calls "nation-leading." ...
Apr 05, 2023 Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
COVID rates climb in latest report, 18 more deaths reported
COVID-19 rates are climbing in Saskatchewan. The Government of Saskatchewan's latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program report, released on Thursday, showed increases in COVID-19 rates...
Mar 30, 2023
'Profound disappointment:' Nurses union president reacts to Sask. budget
There is nothing new in this year's provincial budget that recognizes the dedication from registered nurses across Saskatchewan, and how they've held up the health-care system for the past three years...
Mar 23, 2023
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Volunteers are the glue that hold our kids' sports together
From the grandpa who rakes the diamond to the parent coach in soccer and the mom cutting flags around little waists, Sar...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, May 5
8:30 - As central Saskatchewan is dealing with flooding, the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency is working closely with m...