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 mayor says Coun. Darren Hill to speak at upcoming meeting
Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark says he's not in a position to speak for or about Ward 1 councillor Darren Hill. However, Hill will get the chance to do so on his own, at Monday's regular council meetin...
Apr 22, 2021
Saskatoon's Ward 1 councillor Darren Hill's job on the line at Monday's council meeting
Saskatoon city councillor Darren Hill's job as Ward 1 representative could be on the line at Monday's council meeting. After the delayed civic election last Nov. 13, all council candidates were expect...
Apr 22, 2021 Saskatoon city councillor Darren Hill. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon's VIDO-InterVac receives $59.2M in federal funding
Saskatoon's VIDO-InterVac is another step closer to becoming Canada's Centre for Pandemic Research with the $59.2 million announced for the facility in the federal budget. After months of wondering wh...
Apr 21, 2021 Dr. Volker Gerdts, director of VIDO. (University of Saskatchewan)
21,000+ COVID vaccination appointments cancelled due to 'erratic' Moderna shipments
The Saskatchewan Health Authority says more than 21,000 COVID-19 vaccine appointments -- mainly in rural Saskatchewan -- have been cancelled over the past couple of months, primarily because of delays...
Apr 21, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon, Regina chambers of commerce weigh in on federal budget
Happy that wage and rent subsidy programs will continue, unhappy that some businesses won’t be able to take advantage of those programs. That’s what Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce C...
Apr 19, 2021
Clark asks residents to 'buckle down' to prevent further spread of COVID variants
As COVID-19 variants of concern continue to spread in Saskatoon, Mayor Charlie Clark is once again asking people to "buckle down and take action" to prevent the city from becoming overrun with the vir...
Apr 15, 2021 Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark. (650 CKOM file photo)
Don't ditch the facemasks or social distancing after first vaccine dose, says Shahab
So you've had your first COVID-19 vaccine dose and that means you can ease up on the public health rules, right? Wrong, says Saskatchewan chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. That's because ...
Apr 14, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Now is not the time to be 'vaccine shopping', says infectious disease doctor
With variants of concern spreading aggressively and quickly in Saskatchewan -- particularly in the southern part of the province -- a Regina doctor says now is not the time to be "vaccine shopping," c...
Apr 12, 2021
Surplus doses used to vaccinate Saskatoon police against COVID-19
Seventeen frontline police officers are partially vaccinated against COVID-19 with just 298 more to go, according to a tweet from Saskatoon Police Chief Troy Cooper. https://twitter.com/Cooper_Chief/s...
Apr 09, 2021
SHA says several children being treated in hospital for COVID-19
One month ago, Saskatchewan reported its first COVID-19-related death of someone younger than the age of 20 since the pandemic began. While there wasn't any information on how old the youth was, accor...
Apr 09, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
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