Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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Latest COVID update Oct. 27: 223 new cases, 271 in hospital, 5 deaths
Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in Saskatchewan dropped to their lowest level in more than a month Wednesday. The Ministry of Health reported 271 COVID patients were in Saskatchewan hospitals, the fe...
Oct 27, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Throne Speech goes on despite protest outside Legislative Building
The second session of Saskatchewan's 29th legislature started Wednesday with differing priorities for the government and the opposition, and a change of plans thanks to threats. There was supposed to ...
Oct 27, 2021 Premier Scott Moe. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan reveals plan to vaccinate kids 5 to 11 against COVID
Health Canada has yet to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11, but Saskatchewan is looking to be ready for when that green light is given. The province unveiled its vaccinati...
Oct 26, 2021 Dr. Tania Diener, medical health officer responsible for immunization and physician co-lead of the SHA’s COVID-19 immunization campaign, speaks to the media on Oct. 26, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Latest COVID update Oct. 26: 126 new cases, 10 deaths
Saskatchewan has reported its lowest daily total of new COVID-19 cases in more than two months. However, one day after announcing there weren't any deaths due to the coronavirus, the provincial govern...
Oct 26, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Moe admits mask mandate could have come sooner, but no further restrictions announced
Premier Scott Moe spent much of his State of the Province address Monday on Saskatchewan's flourishing economic prospects as the province emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic before facing questions fro...
Oct 25, 2021
Feds sending six critical-care nurses to Saskatchewan
Help is on the way for Saskatchewan's beleaguered health-care workers -- but it's not as much as the province was after. During a COVID-19 technical briefing Monday, Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency ...
Oct 25, 2021
Latest COVID update Oct. 25: 170 new cases, no new deaths
For the first time in 51 days, Saskatchewan didn't report a death due to COVID-19 on Monday. In its daily COVID update, the Ministry of Health said there weren't any COVID-related fatalities to announ...
Oct 25, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatchewan set to offer monoclonal antibodies as COVID treatment
Saskatchewan has added another weapon in its fight against COVID-19. In a media release, the provincial government announced monoclonal antibodies will be available starting Monday to what it called "...
Oct 25, 2021
Report on French Catholic Church abuse reminding local dioceses of work to be done in Sask.
Earlier this month, a report revealed more than 200,000 children have been victims of abuse at the hands of the French Catholic Church. But local dioceses are saying the legacy of abuse exists in Sask...
Oct 25, 2021
Incoming vaccinations will 'definitely' bring child case rates down
Through the pandemic, about a third of cases in Saskatchewan have been in kids and teens, so as cases have gone up in Saskatchewan the last few months, so have cases in kids. However, those high numbe...
Oct 25, 2021 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...