Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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Province’s HealthLine 811 overwhelmed by calls
Saskatchewan’s 24-hour telephone access to health, mental health, and addictions support appears to have been completely overwhelmed by calls from the public. After the provincial government ann...
Mar 12, 2020
Coronavirus: Advice and information from the province, Government of Canada and the WHO
Saskatchewan has recorded its first presumptive case of coronavirus, a 60-year-old who had recently travelled to Egypt. After contact with a patient who is being tested for coronavirus, some members o...
Mar 12, 2020
Saskatchewan has first presumptive case of coronavirus
Saskatchewan confirmed Thursday the first presumptive case of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Saskatoon. The person was tested on Monday in Saskatchewan and has been well enough to self-isolate in their h...
Mar 12, 2020 Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan has first presumptive case of coronavirus
Saskatchewan is confirming the first presumptive case of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Saskatoon. The person was tested on Monday in Saskatchewan and has been well enough to self-isolate in their home. ...
Mar 12, 2020 Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. Health Authority in the midst of preparing for coronavirus
With cases being found in provinces across the country, it's likely not a matter of if Saskatchewan will see its first coronavirus case, it's when. So the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is in the...
Mar 11, 2020 John Ash, executive director of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, Dr. Saqib Shahab, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, and Health Minister Jim Reiter (l to r) discuss the province's plans for dealing with COVID-19 on March 11, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. gov't still doesn't have finished plan to deal with possible coronavirus outbreak
The Government of Saskatchewan still doesn't have a finished plan on how it, and its many arms, would deal with a coronavirus outbreak if it were to happen here. Health Minister Jim Reiter said the pl...
Mar 11, 2020
Meili calling for postponed budget in wake of coronavirus-related market drop
With markets and oil prices taking a plunge in reaction to coronavirus in countries around the world, the leader of Saskatchewan's NDP wants the government to postpone the budget and take another look...
Mar 10, 2020 Sask. NDP Leader Ryan Meili (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Petroleum analyst predicting even bigger drop in gas prices
Gas prices are expected to drop significantly in the coming days. Dan McTeague is a petroleum analyst and is part of a group called Canadians for Affordable Energy. He told Gormley that another drop o...
Mar 10, 2020
Oil price plunge not part of 2020-21 budget: Harpauer
The province's finance minister, Donna Harpauer, says the 2020-21 budget is finished and Monday's deep plunge in oil prices doesn't factor into it. "We had made some adjustments already for the downtu...
Mar 10, 2020 Finance Minister Donna Harpauer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'It'll just keep us hungrier:' Dunstone reflects on 2020 Brier
Even though the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier didn't end the way they wanted, Matt Dunstone and the members of his Regina-based rink are still happy about their performance at the Canadian men's curling cham...
Mar 09, 2020 Saskatchewan skip Matt Dunstone throws a rock during the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier. (Curling Canada/Twitter)
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
8:30 - Construction for the AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood is set to begin this spring, but many residents in the ...