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NDP leader promises $10 million for student mental health
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Ryan Meili has promised $10 million to support student mental health should he become premier this fall. Half of that money would be used to hire 50 mental health nurses for sc...
Sep 21, 2020 NDP candidate for Regina-University Aleana Young speaking at an announcement where leader Ryan Meili (right) pledged $10 million to support student mental health. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME)
‘I went to everything alone:’ Do More Ag director opens up about battle with cancer during COVID-19
Adelle Stewart is used to helping others with their struggles with mental health as the executive director of the Do More Ag Foundation. But, in mid-April, her focus changed from others to her own sil...
Sep 11, 2020
Huskies football player shares personal experiences on World Suicide Prevention Day
“He is somebody I’ll love forever.” Those were the words of University of Saskatchewan Huskies receiver Yol Piok, speaking about the friend who rushed him to the hospital after he at...
Sep 10, 2020
Do More Ag continuing mental health efforts through pandemic into harvest
The Do More Agriculture Foundation has been busy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting its resources to an online basis to ensure it can continue to bring mental health awareness to producers acr...
Sep 09, 2020
Potential explosion in mental illness could last years after pandemic: study
OTTAWA - A new study suggests Canadians, especially women, will face a potentially explosive increase in mental illness for years after the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over. Over the long term, the D...
Aug 05, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
'We need to see more done': Family of Samwel Uko reacts to SHA apology
Note: The video in the article may be disturbing for some people. "Satisfied" isn't the word the family of Samwel Uko would use when describing the public apology from the Saskatchewan Health Authorit...
Jul 24, 2020 SHA Executive Director, Acute Care John Ash (left) and CEO Scott Livingstone (right) offer a public apology to the family of Samwel Uko on July 23, 2020. (Libby Giesbrecht/980 CJME)
Advocate applauds app to help farmers with mental health
As early as this fall, farmers in Saskatchewan could have an app at their fingertips to help them with their mental health. The provincial government is putting $10,000 and a 16-week development perio...
Jul 03, 2020
Saskatoon company developing app to help farmers monitor mental health
A new mobile app is being developed to help farmers monitor the state of their mental health. In a media release Thursday, Innovation Saskatchewan and the Ministry of Agriculture announced they’...
Jul 02, 2020
Regina's police chief discusses defunding police, crime statistics
Regina's police chief shared his thoughts Wednesday on calls to defund police in the wake of George Floyd's death and the subsequent protests. Chief Evan Bray told Gormley there are many different asp...
Jun 24, 2020 Regina Police Service Chief Evan Bray. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
‘Cities die from the core out,’ writes developer concerned with safety in downtown Saskatoon to city council
A letter written by a well known Saskatoon developer in early May calls for urgent civic action to save the city’s downtown area. Ken Achs cites four main issues in the downtown area that are af...
Jun 22, 2020
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