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Children who are close household contacts of COVID-19 cases must now self-isolate: Ministry of Health
The provincial government has quietly amended a public health order on students and when they must isolate. An amendment to the "Public Health Order Mandatory Isolation and Face Covering ," dated Sept...
Oct 02, 2021
Latest COVID update Oct. 1: Sask. reports 5 deaths, 313 hospitalizations
Five more Saskatchewan residents have died as a result of COVID-19, increasing the province's death toll due to the virus to 700 since the pandemic started. The deaths reported Friday comprised three ...
Oct 01, 2021 (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)
'We weren't given any advance notice': Liquor stores implement proof of vaccine at last minute
Implementing the Saskatchewan government's proof-of-vaccination policy has been a stressful scramble for some businesses. The provincial government told liquor stores Wednesday the policy would apply ...
Oct 01, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Biggest concern among businesses is abuse of employees, says Hospitality Saskatchewan
It's the first workday for the hospitality sector under Saskatchewan's new proof-of-vaccination requirements. As of Friday, a number of businesses must check customers for proof of vaccination or a ne...
Oct 01, 2021 "That's why it's called the hospitality industry. We need those smiling faces in the right places," said Jim Bence, President and CEO of Hospitality Saskatchewan. (980 CJME file photo)
RCMP seeking person of interest after officer’s home shot at
The RCMP is investigating a shooting incident outside the home of one its officers in northern Saskatchewan. The Mounties received a report Monday that a gun had been fired several times outside an of...
Oct 01, 2021
Some Saskatchewan businesses plan on going against new rules
A lot of places in Saskatchewan will be asking you for your vaccination status starting Friday. But not every required business plans on following this new rule. In a group on Facebook called "Saskatc...
Oct 01, 2021 (Kevin Martel/980 CJME file photo)
Moe requests help during COVID-19 talk with Justin Trudeau
Premier Scott Moe is requesting additional support from the federal government to help Saskatchewan’s struggling health-care system amid the country’s worst surge of COVID-19 cases. A day ...
Sep 30, 2021
Sask. proof-of-vaccination policy survives court challenge
Saskatchewan's Court of Queen's Bench has determined the province's proof-of-vaccination policy can go ahead Friday as scheduled. In a statement Thursday afternoon, Justice Minister and Attorney Gener...
Sep 30, 2021 Justice Minister Gord Wyant. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Sept. 30: Single-day record of 601 new cases, 10 deaths announced
One day after the chief medical health officer said Saskatchewan was "headed for a fall and winter of misery" due to COVID-19, the province reported its highest single-day total of new cases ever as w...
Sep 30, 2021
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