Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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Kids' COVID vaccinations in Saskatchewan to start Wednesday
Saskatchewan will start vaccinating children between the ages of five and 11 against COVID-19 on Wednesday. Sheila Anderson, the vaccine chief responsible for the Saskatchewan Health Authority's COVID...
Nov 22, 2021 Airport ground crew offload a plane carrying the first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, approved for children aged five to 11, in Hamilton, Ont., on Nov. 21, 2021. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin)
Fans soaking in every minute of curling trials
Loud roars from the crowd at the SaskTel Centre have been a common theme to start off the first few draws of the Olympic curling trials. There are nine men's teams and nine women's teams competing to ...
Nov 22, 2021
Agribition to open its doors for the first time in two years
The largest livestock show in Canada will open again Monday morning after being put on hold for a year because of COVID-19. This year is also the 50th show for Agribition, something the show's CEO, Ch...
Nov 22, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
U of S student 'uncertain' with looming winter vaccine policy
A University of Saskatchewan student doesn't know what her education will look like in the new year, but as of right now, it won't be in person. The third-year student said she's concerned with the un...
Nov 22, 2021
Latest COVID update Nov. 21: 62 new cases, five fewer people in hospital, one new death
After a bump in cases Saturday, Saskatchewan recorded a relatively low number of COVID cases Sunday. In its daily update, the province reported 62 new cases. There were also 181 new recoveries, droppi...
Nov 21, 2021
Latest COVID update Nov. 20: 185 new cases, 2 deaths, out-of-province tests raise active total
A relatively high number of out-of-province COVID tests raised the active case total Saturday. In its daily update, the province reported that 68 people who live in Saskatchewan tested positive for th...
Nov 20, 2021
Latest COVID update Nov. 19: 89 new cases push total over 80K
Saskatchewan added 89 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, pushing its total during the pandemic past the 80,000 mark. Since March of 2020, 80,025 cases have been reported in the province. Over the past s...
Nov 19, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
'It's the right thing to do:' Children react to news of COVID vaccinations
Some Saskatchewan children are ready to step up to roll their sleeves up. Children between the ages of five and 11 are now eligible to get their COVID-19 vaccinations, after Health Canada announced Fr...
Nov 19, 2021
Feds, province provide funding to lower child-care costs in Sask.
The federal and provincial governments took another step Friday toward lowering child-care costs for families in Saskatchewan. The governments announced funding will be given to licensed facilities in...
Nov 19, 2021 While the $10-a-day program reduced costs for families, centres were left trying to absorb rising expenses without corresponding increases in operational funding. Inflation touched everything from wages to utilities to groceries, and many centres built their budgets in 2020, before those costs surged. (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
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...