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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'Vigilant': Shahab outlines precautions around gatherings
It might sound like a time warp back to the summer of 2020, but Saskatchewan's top doctor is once again giving the people of Saskatchewan advice about the safety of gatherings and COVID-19. "While tod...
Oct 19, 2021 Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Sask. still searching for additional help as COVID ICU transfers begin
Premier Scott Moe says there wasn’t an internal trigger that forced Saskatchewan to send six ICU patients to Ontario this week. There just simply aren’t enough available beds in Saskatchew...
Oct 19, 2021
Latest COVID update Oct. 18: ICU admissions rise, active cases fall
As the number of COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan intensive care units reached a record high for a third straight day, the number of active cases in the province fell to its lowest mark in more than a m...
Oct 18, 2021 (Dr. Susan Shaw/Twitter)
Saskatchewan to send six COVID ICU patients to Ontario
One Saskatchewan patient is Ontario-bound and five others are expected to be sent east as COVID-19 numbers continue to worsen in Saskatchewan. The news came Monday, when the Saskatchewan government al...
Oct 18, 2021 Premier Scott Moe. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Oct. 16: 411 new cases, 476 recoveries, three deaths
The latest COVID update was a bit of a mixed bag. In its daily update Saturday, the province reported that the active case total had dropped to 4,297. There were 411 new cases and 476 recoveries, alon...
Oct 16, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
COVID boosters coming for those 65+, rapid tests to be distributed next week
A third COVID-19 shot in the arm will soon be available for those 65 and older in Saskatchewan, according to chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. During a news conference Friday, Shahab expl...
Oct 15, 2021
Latest COVID update Oct. 15: 312 new cases, 339 in hospital
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan dropped under 400 for the first time in a month Friday. According to data from the Ministry of Health, that figure now stands at 380. The la...
Oct 15, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
New tourism agreement aims to boost travel between southern Sask. and Montana
Nine rural municipalities in south-central Saskatchewan have taken steps to prepare for a future after the coal industry. Through an economic partnership called South Saskatchewan Ready (SSR), they ha...
Oct 15, 2021 Aug. 2 was the second straight day that Coronach set a new heat record. (Submitted/Town of Coronach/Facebook)
Records set in Saskatchewan provincial parks in 2021
Saskatchewan residents have been enjoying the great outdoors in record numbers in 2021. According to the Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport, there have been more than one million visits to Saskatche...
Oct 15, 2021
Three drown after boat capsizes on northern lake
Three people are dead after a boat capsized on Reindeer Lake on the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. According to the RCMP, officers from the Thompson detachment got a call Tuesday that a capsized boat h...
Oct 14, 2021
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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...