Murray Wood: When fishing trips really are about fishing
Murray Wood says his annual "Gentlemen's Retreat" is actually becoming, well... not quite gentlemanly, but cer...
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Saskatchewan injecting $17 million into Saskatoon hospital to add ICU beds
SASKATOON - Saskatchewan is expanding the critical care ward in its largest hospital, but the union representing nurses wants to know who will be staffing. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said Monday ...
May 11, 2026
Supreme Court temporarily extends women's access to a widely used abortion pill
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, m...
May 11, 2026
Quebec to invest $252 million in preventive health programs over five years
MONTREAL - The Quebec government is spending more than $250 million on preventive health care over the next five years in a bid to reduce illness and stave off rising costs. The government says the mo...
May 11, 2026
Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak not a cause for concern in Saskatchewan: Microbiologist
A microbiologist says a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship shouldn't be a cause for concern in Saskatchewan. Dr. Joseph Blondeau, a clinical microbiologist and the head of clinical microbiology at R...
May 11, 2026 Dr. Joseph Blondeau says in Saskatchewan, humans are typically exposed to hantavirus through contact with rodents or rodent droppings. (Olavi Anttila/pexels.com)
No Canadians had known direct contact with hantavirus on ship: B.C. health official
None of the Canadians who were on a ship struck by an outbreak of deadly hantavirus had any known direct contact with anyone who was infected, British Columbia's provincial health officer says. But Dr...
May 11, 2026
Ontario allowing pharmacists to treat more conditions, administer more vaccines
TORONTO - Ontario pharmacists will soon be allowed to administer more vaccines and treat more common ailments, as part of the government's continuing moves to expand their scope of practice. Health Mi...
May 11, 2026
Canadians on ship at centre of hantavirus outbreak land in Canada
VANCOUVER - Four Canadians who disembarked the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak landed Sunday in B.C., where they will continue their quarantine. Online plane tracking platfor...
May 10, 2026
Quebec rolling out digital health dashboard pilot project to reduce paperwork
MONTRAL - Quebec has rolled out its digital health dashboard pilot project on Saturday despite criticism over security breaches and technical issues. The system, which was first introduced in Montreal...
May 09, 2026
Remaining Canadians on cruise ship at the centre of hantavirus outbreak to disembark
After a roughly month-long voyage and days of quarantining, the remaining Canadians aboard a cruise ship at the centre of a high-profile and fatal hantavirus outbreak are set to begin their journey ho...
May 09, 2026
Experts say hantavirus unlikely to be next pandemic
TORONTO - Infectious disease specialist Dr. Allison McGeer has lived and worked through SARS-1 in 2003, the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020. With the trauma of...
May 09, 2026 A worker prepares the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Friday, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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Sarah Mills: Sport is a collective experience that brings us together
Whatever your sport is, Sarah Mills says it is an experience fans get to have together. The highs, the lows and - whethe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, June 16
8:30 - The independent review of Saskatchewan's 2025 wildfire response found the SPSA was not fully prepared for a wildf...