Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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Father 'relieved' daughters protected against COVID-19
After months of waiting, Martin Gaal said he was relieved when his daughters got their COVID-19 vaccines. “It actually shocked me a little bit that I felt a physical weight being lifted off my c...
Dec 01, 2021
COVID-19 Omicron variant having impact on stock market
The stock market was bleeding red again Tuesday as it reacted to the new COVID-19 Omicron variant. The TSX fell nearly three per cent over the last five days, while the price of oil came tumbling down...
Nov 30, 2021 (AP file photo)
Regina, Saskatoon airports brace for COVID-19 changes
International flights and new vaccination rules start Tuesday for the Regina and Saskatoon airports. After losing their official "international" designation from Transport Canada in March, people will...
Nov 30, 2021
'Sicker and sicker every day': Sask. woman pushes gov't for help as she waits on surgery
Nearly as long as Saskatchewan has been dealing with the pandemic, Stephanie Brad has been waiting for surgery to get her bladder removed. "I'm getting sicker and sicker every day," said Brad. She and...
Nov 30, 2021 Stephanie Brad holds a picture of her four daughters, who she says have been seriously affected by her illness. Brad has been waiting for a bladder surgery that was postponed in April 2020 then again in October 2021 due to COVID pressures on the healthcare system. She was brought to the legislative building by the Sask. NDP. Nov. 29 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Finn family to finally get health-care money from province
After more than a year of fighting with Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health, the Finn family will now be reimbursed for the hundreds of thousands of dollars they spent on lifesaving health care for thei...
Nov 24, 2021 Conner Finn, whose parents are calling on the provincial government to reverse its decision not to help pay for his treatment for Adrenoleukodrystrophy (ALD). (Submitted)
Doctor speaks on emergence of new COVID variant subtypes in Sask.
As the COVID-19 virus passes on to more people, the chance of it mutating into a different variant grows. This makes Health Canada's approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged five to 11 even...
Nov 19, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/980 CJME file photo)
COVID-19 weighing heavy on Saskatchewan mayors
When Glenn George first took on the role of mayor in Melfort about a year ago, he didn't realize how much the pandemic would impact the job. “I’m working at it twice as hard as I ever thou...
Nov 19, 2021
Patient worried about changing treatments after monoclonal antibodies reserved for COVID
The Saskatchewan government has made monoclonal antibodies available to COVID-19 patients during the fourth wave, but immunocompromised patients who regularly rely on those treatments feel like they'r...
Nov 08, 2021
Health minister believes municipalities should stick to their jurisdictions
It appears the Saskatchewan government wouldn't allow any municipality to take health orders into its own hands. On Friday, Saskatoon's city council voted down a proposed bylaw that would have impleme...
Nov 02, 2021 Health Minister Paul Merriman. (File photo/Submitted)
Latest COVID update Oct. 30: 189 new cases, 226 in hospital, 4 deaths
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan continued to trend downwards Saturday. In its daily update, the Ministry of Health said the average had fallen by six from Friday's update t...
Oct 30, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/980 CJME file photo)
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Murray Wood: The Art of the CUSMA Deal
Insults, complaints that Canada is so mean, warnings the U.S. doesn't need us. It's all standard operating procedure. Th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 29
On Wednesday, Evan reviews Tuesday's federal spring fiscal update, takes the temperature of the new CFL changes coming i...