Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
Tag Archives: Saskatchewan
Water Security Agency warns of thin ice after recent stretch of warm weather
Even if the temperature dips below 0 C overnight, it could still be dangerous on a frozen lake or river across the province. That's the message coming from the provincial Water Security Agency. Spokes...
Jan 11, 2021 Lumsden's TRK Towing pulled four vehicles out of the ice on Last Mountain Lake during one stretch in 2018. (File photo from Tyler Temple TRK Towing/Facebook)
Email mistake leads to privacy investigation into Sask. hunting licence system
An investigation has been opened into thousands of emails sent to the wrong people through the province's Hunting, Angling and Trapping Licence (HAL) system. Last last week, the third-party company th...
Jan 11, 2021
Saskatchewan more than doubled overdose death record in 2020: Coroners service report
2020 was the deadliest year on record for drug overdoses in Saskatchewan. According to the latest report from the Saskatchewan Coroners Service, a total of 379 drug toxicity deaths were recorded over ...
Jan 11, 2021
Two men injured in Saturday plane crash near Archerwill
Two men suffered serious injuries after a plane crash Saturday near Archerwill. According to the RCMP, the Greenwater detachment received a report just before 10 a.m., that a plane had crashed about n...
Jan 11, 2021
Latest COVID update Jan. 11: 8 deaths, 412 new cases, 197 in hospital
After being unable to fully report its usual COVID-19 update on Sunday, the provincial government reported eight deaths Monday. In its daily update, the province reported new COVID-related fatalities,...
Jan 11, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Sask. home builder predicts drop in lumber prices this spring
A Saskatchewan home builder is predicting some relief from high lumber prices in time for the spring building season. “(By) late March, early April we expect a drop as much of 30 per cent in the...
Jan 11, 2021
Vaccine plan needs faster rollout, better communication, says Sask. nurses' union
The president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) thinks the province's program to roll out the COVID-19 vaccines needs to be sped up in a significant way. "The quicker we go, the quicker we get...
Jan 11, 2021 Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory. (650 CKOM file photo)
Latest COVID update Jan. 9: 7 deaths, 332 new cases, 189 recoveries
Another seven people in Saskatchewan who contracted COVID-19 have died. In its daily update, the province said four of the deaths were in the north-central region - one person aged 70 to 79 and three ...
Jan 09, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatchewan farmers brace for financial blows in 2021
Saskatchewan farmers are bracing for a more expensive year, as the increased carbon tax brings more financial challenges for provincial producers. The tax started at $20 per tonne in 2019, before incr...
Jan 09, 2021
Saskatchewan Penitentiary inmate dies of COVID-19 complications
An inmate from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary died outside the hospital after "an apparent result of complications related to COVID-19," the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) announced Saturday. Thi...
Jan 09, 2021
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Murray Wood: The Art of the CUSMA Deal
Insults, complaints that Canada is so mean, warnings the U.S. doesn't need us. It's all standard operating procedure. Th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 29
On Wednesday, Evan reviews Tuesday's federal spring fiscal update, takes the temperature of the new CFL changes coming i...