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Questions continue around back-to-school plans
Last month, the provincial government released its guidelines for reopening Saskatchewan schools in the fall, but some teachers and parents still have their hands raised with questions. Emails 980 CJM...
Jul 07, 2020
‘Help Wanted’: Health minister says Sask. has taken 'great strides' on staffing in long-term care
Saskatchewan's health minister thinks there's still work to do in long-term care, but he says the province has come a long way. Jim Reiter didn't specifically say whether he thinks there's a staffing ...
Jun 26, 2020 Health Minister Jim Reiter. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
‘Help Wanted’: NDP says staffing has been a problem for years with no fix coming from government
The Saskatchewan NDP's critic for seniors said it's frustrating and heartbreaking to hear horror stories from people about their family members in long-term care year after year and not see the proble...
Jun 25, 2020 Saskatchewan NDP Critic for Seniors Danielle Chartier is shown during a debate on June 16, 2020. (Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan)
NDP says Sask. budget lacks a recovery plan
The Saskatchewan NDP says the budget is nothing more than a 'pre-election placeholder' that does nothing to show how the government intends to get the province back on track from the COVID-19 pandemic...
Jun 15, 2020 Sask. NDP Leader Ryan Meili is critical of the province's updated 2020-2021 budget, saying it doesn't invest where it should. Jun. 15, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Liberals push forward with COVID-19 bill despite likely impasse
OTTAWA - The Liberals are pushing forward with a contentious piece of emergency legislation that would extend COVID-19 aid programs even though Opposition parties appear unlikely to allow it to move f...
Jun 10, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
NDP calls on province to do more for Indigenous children in care
Saskatchewan’s approach to child welfare has failed Indigenous children according to the leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. Saskatchewan now has the most children in care homes sin...
Jun 05, 2020
Kids have been left out of the reopening plan: NDP
As of Monday, someone in Saskatchewan can get a massage, buy a new outfit and then go out for supper, but some parents are still frustrated because they feel there hasn't been anything in the province...
Jun 04, 2020
Meili 'dusting off the stethoscope' to help at testing facility during COVID-19 crisis
NDP leader Ryan Meili is heading back to the doctor's chair to help fight on the front-lines of the COVID-19 crisis. The former family physician says he's renewed his license and has started work at a...
Apr 20, 2020
Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - More than 300,000 out-of-work Canadians successfully applied for pandemic-related emergency relief in the first few hours after the application process began Monday, and Ottawa says it will s...
Apr 06, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Meili encouraging citizens to wear masks to mitigate spread of COVID-19
Saskatchewan NDP leader Ryan Meili is encouraging people to wear a mask in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19, as long as the face coverings are not those that would be needed by health care w...
Apr 05, 2020 NDP Leader Ryan Meili on March 18, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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