Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Regional perimeter checkpoints implemented in northwestern Saskatchewan as COVID-19 outbreak continues
The mayor of a northwestern Saskatchewan town is asking those who don't live in Ile-a-la-Crosse, La Loche or numerous First Nations communities not to travel there unless absolutely necessary. As of T...
Apr 23, 2020 Photo Courtesy FB Page of Northern Village of Ile-a-la-Crosse.
Sunshine and warmer weather are here: SUN urges people to continue following physical distancing rules
It's 15 degrees Celsius Wednesday afternoon in the Stonebridge area of Saskatoon, and traffic is steady at both the Preston and Clarence Avenue shopping centres and at at least one local park. Entire ...
Apr 22, 2020
Beef prices will likely increase as Canadian processing plants cope with COVID-19 outbreaks
The rib eye steaks and angus burgers so many of us love to grill will likely not only go up in price in the coming days and weeks - they might not be as readily available either. That's what the CEO o...
Apr 21, 2020 Prairie Meats Retail Outlet in Saskatoon. Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM
'I think there's reason to be optimistic': VIDO- InterVac's Dr. Scott Napper on COVID-19 treatments
Even with the best-case scenarios, a potential COVID-19 vaccine is several months, to a year or more away, says VIDO-InterVac's Dr. Scott Napper. In the meantime, scientists like those at Saskatoon's ...
Apr 20, 2020 (David Stobbe/StobbePhoto.ca)
DIY home improvement projects become popular as social distancing measures continue
Warman Home Centre floor manager Curtis Penner is seeing lots of activity at his store - just not the typical crowds or what he might see as typical demand over the last several weeks. While big and m...
Apr 17, 2020 Photo Courtesy: Warman Home Centre
Dozens of Saskatchewan nurses receive emergency licences to help with COVID-19 fight
In the last several weeks, at least 60 non-practising or retired nurses have received their emergency licences, according to the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association's executive director, Cindy ...
Apr 17, 2020
Now not the time to re-open economy or relax physical distancing measures: Saskatchewan Union of Nurses
The analogy Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) President Tracy Zambory describes is simple: you wouldn't go skating on a pond that has just started to freeze over, or you'll fall through. You need to ...
Apr 16, 2020 Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory. (File photo/650 CKOM)
Online game show created by Weyburn brothers takes off
Taking the game show genre where it's never gone before. That's what Weyburn, Saskatchewan brothers Richy and Preston Roy say they want to do with their Facebook online game show "Big Time Live." The ...
Apr 10, 2020 Facebook Photo Courtesy: Richy and Preston Roy
Saskatoon's Open Door Society leads initiative to sew 10,000 masks for vulnerable populations
It started out as an idea by members of a local group meant to help female entrepreneurs who are also newcomers to Canada: making 10,000 face masks for those who are vulnerable. The women, members of ...
Apr 09, 2020 Sample of a face mask. (Photo Courtesy: SODS)
Ferrets to be tested for immunity after receiving COVID-19 vaccine says VIDO-InterVac Director
Dozens of ferrets and hamsters at Saskatoon's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization- International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac), will soon show scientists whether they have developed immunity ...
Apr 08, 2020 Dr. Volker Gerdts, director of VIDO. (University of Saskatchewan)
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