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Effect of health-care slowdown worries SHA
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is in the middle of putting the brakes on most surgeries and services in the province to try to make enough room for COVID-19 patients today and in the near future. A...
Sep 24, 2021 Saskatchewan Health Authority chief medical officer Dr. Susan Shaw. (980 CJME)
SEIU-West president unsure about NDP call for military help
The head of a union representing thousands of health-care workers across the province isn't sure calling the military is the help the industry needs. However, SEIU-West president Barbara Cape knows so...
Sep 24, 2021 Barbara Cape, president of SEIU-West. (File photo by Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'A little bit reckless': Student close contacts allowed to stay in class
The head of the teachers' union in Saskatchewan is raising his eyebrows over a policy change for the current school year on COVID-19 close contacts. Previously, students would have to isolate at home ...
Sep 23, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Sept. 23: 460 new cases, 7 deaths, 273 in hospital
The number of COVID-19 patients in Saskatchewan hospitals and ICUs reached record levels again Thursday. The Ministry of Health said there were 273 people with COVID in the province's health-care faci...
Sep 23, 2021 A message written on the sidewalk outside Ellis Hall, next to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Twitter)
Tech expert tries to ease concerns about QR codes for proving vax status
A Canadian tech expert says people shouldn’t have any fears about their personal information in a bar code. Starting Oct. 1, Saskatchewan is moving to a QR code system to show proof of a COVID-1...
Sep 23, 2021
Direct international flights still not available for Sask. airports
The airports in Regina and Saskatoon still don't have direct international flights months after travel restrictions were eased. James Bogusz, head of the Regina Airport Authority, says tropical flight...
Sep 23, 2021
Harvest nearly 90 per cent complete in Saskatchewan
Harvest in Saskatchewan continues to be well ahead of its average pace, thanks in large part to the weather. In its weekly crop report, the Ministry of Agriculture said warm, dry conditions have allow...
Sep 23, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
NDP wants province to call on military for help with COVID-19
As COVID-19 cases rise by hundreds each day and hospitalizations continue to hit record highs, Saskatchewan's NDP is calling for the provincial government to extend a request to the Canadian military ...
Sep 22, 2021 Saskatchewan NDP Health Critic Vicki Mowat calls on the provincial government to reach out to the military to ask for help in dealing with rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations on Sept. 22, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
APAS ready to work with government, sees opportunity in minority
Like most people examining the results of Monday's federal election, Todd Lewis said it looks like more of the same. "We expect things to operate basically how they have for the past couple years and ...
Sep 22, 2021 Todd Lewis on his farm in Gray on Aug. 13, 2020. (980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Sept. 22: Hospitalizations reach record high again
For the fourth straight day, Saskatchewan has set a record for hospitalizations due to COVID-19. The Ministry of Health said Wednesday there were 265 people in the province's hospitals because of the ...
Sep 22, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
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Sarah Mills: Accountability is a word some elected officials seem to be forgetting
From four people walking away from the RM of Sherwood council with little to no explanation to the reaction of some coun...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 29
8:30 - The spring fiscal update released yesterday includes new measures such as a major skilled trades training program...