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Some skeptical over plan to cut down surgical backlog
On Thursday, the provincial government announced a new plan to get through the surgical wait list that grew large because of the grip COVID's fourth wave had on the province. The plan includes an incr...
Dec 10, 2021 Sarah Turnbull and her daughter Blake, whose surgery and procedures were pushed back because of the fourth wave of COVID-19. Dec. 9 2021 (980 CJME)
Sask. NDP calling for paid leave for parents to get kids vaccinated
With kids now able to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the Saskatchewan NDP is calling for parents to get paid leave to be with their child while they get their shot. NDP Leader Ryan Meili said it's im...
Nov 26, 2021
Economy and recovery likely government priorities in coming legislative session
On Wednesday afternoon, the new legislative session in Saskatchewan will begin with the throne speech, outlining the government's priorities for the coming eight weeks. On Monday, in his State of the ...
Oct 27, 2021 Premier Scott Moe (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
NDP calling for Shahab's recommendations to be released
Saskatchewan's current situation in the COVID-19 pandemic is sad and frustrating and avoidable, according to the NDP. NDP MLA Vicki Mowat, the party's health critic, said the health system has collaps...
Oct 19, 2021 NDP MLA Vicki Mowat. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Sask. NDP glad for Extendicare management transition, but say it comes late
NDP Seniors Critic Matt Love called an announcement by the provincial government Thursday a "step in the right direction," but said it was being made too late. Love told media Thursday the announcemen...
Oct 14, 2021
NDP, organizations, people call on government to 'fix' social assistance
A small group of six tents takes up a portion of Regina's Pepsi Park these days, a home for people who have nowhere else to go. Advocates say it's a symptom of the long-standing homeless problem in Re...
Oct 12, 2021 Gavin Siggelkow is staying at the ten camp in Pepsi Park in Regina. Oct. 12, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Gov't denies Meili claim that COVID ICU patients being moved out of province
Has Saskatchewan already started moving COVID-19 patients outside of the province? NDP Leader Ryan Meili believes it is. During a Thursday press conference responding to Premier Scott Moe’s Thur...
Oct 07, 2021
Moe giving space to those with anti-vaccine views, Meili says
Last week, Saskatchewan Rivers MLA Nadine Wilson resigned from the Saskatchewan Party caucus as she had not given proof of her COVID-19 vaccination status. Wilson said she no longer supports the gover...
Oct 06, 2021 NDP Leader Ryan Meili. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
NDP's First Nations and Metis Relations critic sees West Lawn as place for learning
In recent years, the West Lawn in Wascana Park outside the Legislative Building has been used as a base where Indigenous activists made their calls for justice. On the country's first National Day for...
Oct 01, 2021 Betty Nippi-Albright, the NDP critic for First Nations and Metis Relations, speaking in the West Lawn of Wascana Park on Sept. 30. To her right is Janet Bugler, an Elder from Red Pheasant Cree Nation and descendant of Chief Piapot. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME)
Close contacts in Sask. schools need to self-isolate, NDP says
The NDP's education critic says there's still time for the government to correct its approach to COVID-19 in schools and order close contacts to self-isolate. Currently, when there are positive cases ...
Sep 28, 2021 Sask. NDP Education Critic Carla Beck (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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