Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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NDP calling for end to for-profit care homes in Sask.
The Saskatchewan NDP is calling the treatment of seniors in long-term care under the pandemic a failure. Matt Love, the NDP critic for seniors, said the provincial government failed to act on what he ...
Feb 02, 2021 NDP Leader Ryan Meili. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
UK COVID variant detected in two Saskatchewan residents
A variant of COVID-19 has been detected in Saskatchewan. In its daily COVID update Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said the U.K. variant had been detected in two residents of the Regina zone. Accordin...
Feb 02, 2021 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
Latest COVID update Feb. 2: 8 deaths, 223 new cases, 266 recoveries
Eight more Saskatchewan residents have died due to COVID-19. The Government of Saskatchewan reported the deaths Tuesday. The death toll in the province since the pandemic started in March is 31...
Feb 02, 2021
Latest COVID update Feb. 1: 2 deaths, 147 new cases, 2,369 active cases
As COVID-19 vaccinations slow to a trickle in Saskatchewan, the province reported Monday its lowest daily number of new cases in 2021. In a media release, the Ministry of Health said there were 147 ne...
Feb 01, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Vaccine shortages throw province's plan off track, minister says
Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman told a Commons standing committee Monday the province's vaccine shipment for Feb. 8 will only be a third of what was originally promised. The shortages from ...
Feb 01, 2021 Sask. Health Minister Paul Merriman (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan-made COVID vaccine begins clinical trial
The made-in-Saskatchewan COVID-19 vaccine has entered clinical trials. Dr. Volker Gerdts, the CEO of Saskatoon's VIDO-InterVac, told the Brent Loucks Show on Monday the first phase of the trial has be...
Feb 01, 2021
Indigenous and military leaders offer condolences following death of D-Day veteran
CUT KNIFE, Sask. - Canada's Indigenous and military leaders paid tribute and offered condolences to the family of a Juno Beach veteran of the Second World War, who also advocated for Indigenous vetera...
Feb 01, 2021
Latest COVID update Jan. 31: Four deaths cap Saskatchewan's deadliest month yet
Another four people in Saskatchewan have died with COVID, closing off the province's deadliest month with the virus so far. With the new deaths, 304 people have lost their lives since the pandemic hit...
Jan 31, 2021
Latest COVID update Jan. 30: 8 deaths, 258 new cases
Saskatchewan's COVID-19 cases dipped on Saturday to 258 new cases, after seeing the highest single-day total of new COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks on Friday. Despite the decrease in cases, the p...
Jan 30, 2021
Majority of Sask. residents say current COVID measures ‘don’t go far enough’: Survey
Two-thirds of Saskatchewan respondents to a recent survey said the government’s COVID-19 measures don’t go far enough. The survey of more than 1,500 people by the Saskatchewan Population H...
Jan 29, 2021
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Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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