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...
Author Archives: Lara Fominoff
Saskatoon Public Library offers free printing of COVID vaccination records
The Saskatoon Public Library wants to make it easier for people to get their proof-of-vaccination records printed. According to a statement on the library's website, starting Monday, anyone who needs ...
Oct 01, 2021
It'll be weeks before Sask. sees benefit of vaccination uptake, says U of S epidemiologist
Provincial health measures designed to curb the spread of COVID-19 and to promote vaccination need to go further, according to a University of Saskatchewan epidemiologist. Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine says w...
Sep 28, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Sask. doctors could soon run out of drug used to treat COVID patients in ICUs
A type of anti-inflammatory drug used in specific circumstances to treat the sickest patients in ICUs -- those who are already intubated and on life support who require high-flow oxygen -- is in short...
Sep 24, 2021
Saskatoon mom grateful for son's care at JPCH's pediatric intensive care unit
Exceptional care. That's how Meagan Hoffman described the care that nurses, therapists, doctors, nutritionists and others who treated her young son's respiratory infection provided in November of 2019...
Sep 23, 2021 Meagan Hoffman. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Fire department requests demolition permit for levelled Clarence Avenue home
It has been just over three months since an east Saskatoon neighbourhood was rocked by a massive house explosion around 4 a.m. on June 21. A 59-year-old man who lived in the home in the 2200 block of ...
Sep 23, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon father worries about access to care at PICU for 'medically fragile' son
Jack Cashin was born with Down syndrome and a heart condition. His father, Francis, says his son needed major surgery, which required admission to Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital. And for the ...
Sep 22, 2021 (Francis Cashin/Submitted)
Rapid tests not yet widely available, say Saskatoon and Regina school divisions
Premier Scott Moe says the provincial government is to release more detailed information about where, when and how the public can access self-administered rapid antigen tests throughout the province. ...
Sep 17, 2021
Daycare workers across Saskatchewan afraid, stressed and burned out
It's not just health-care workers across Saskatchewan whose jobs are being seriously affected by the fourth COVID-19 wave in the province. Daycare providers are as well, according to the Saskatchewan ...
Sep 15, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
DNA expert testifies at Greg Fertuck first-degree murder trial
A DNA expert testified how a drop of blood from 67-year-old Greg Fertuck's truck was matched to Fertuck's ex-wife at his trial in Saskatoon on Tuesday morning. Fertuck is charged with first-degree mur...
Sep 14, 2021 The gravel pit where Sheree Fertuck worked, along with her abandoned semi truck and trailer.
Minor hockey association wants mask exemption for players, referees, coaches on ice
The Saskatoon Minor Hockey Association is hoping to convince the city to allow athletes, coaches and officials to play games and take part in on-ice activities without wearing masks. Masks, however, w...
Sep 13, 2021 (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
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Sarah Mills: There are echoes of Brexit in the Albert separation issue
A referendum over whether Alberta should separate from Canada is looming closer, and Sarah Mills says there are similari...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, May 26
Evan discusses the consequences of Alberta's separatism talk, unearths a Saskatchewan gem to visit this summer and meets...
