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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Saskatoon's CUMFI helps those in COVID-19 isolation
They'll come to the aid of anyone in their community who needs it. That, from Saskatoon's Central Urban Metis Federation Inc. (CUMFI) President Shirley Isbister. The head of the charitable organizatio...
Oct 20, 2020 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Political veterans Donna Harpauer and Trent Wotherspoon talk community, ice-time and what keeps them in the game
Back in 1999, Donna Harpauer was a medical lab technologist at Royal University Hospital working in Saskatoon. She got involved with what was at the time, a much smaller Saskatchewan Party, to try and...
Oct 16, 2020
Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe touts local business, post COVID-19 recovery and tax cuts at Saskatoon campaign stop
In the middle of an industrial yard at Q-Line Trucking north of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe once again reiterated his party's tax cut promises should his party form the next governm...
Oct 16, 2020 Saskatchewan Party leader Scott Moe speaks at a campaign event near Saskatoon on Oct. 16, 2020.
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New drugs under development at U of S that target aggressive breast cancers
Two University of Saskatchewan doctors hope two new breast cancer treatments they're developing will drastically decrease the number of deaths from the disease. Radiopharmacist Dr. Humphrey Fonge and ...
Oct 11, 2020
Big spending and promise of $15-an-hour minimum wage in Saskatchewan NDP platform
Saskatchewan's NDP released its full platform at an event in Saskatoon's River Landing area, just before the Thanksgiving weekend. Claiming the Saskatchewan Party is "stuck in neutral, acting like not...
Oct 09, 2020
Increasing number of unexplained COVID-19 transmissions in Saskatoon has local health authorities worried
Heading into the Thanksgiving long weekend, there is an increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Saskatoon that are unexplained, and many that are likely undetected. That was the opinion Thursday of the...
Oct 08, 2020
U of S counsellor offers advice on coping with holiday stress during the pandemic
One of the things University of Saskatchewan counselling team leader Terri Peterson has noticed, speaking with students and colleagues is just how tired and weary some people are becoming. With Thanks...
Oct 07, 2020
Saskatoon sees thousands of requests for mail-in ballots for November's civic election
The Saskatoon civic election is just over a month away, but that hasn't stopped thousands of people from already filling out forms requesting a mail-in ballot package. Returning Officer Scott Bastian ...
Oct 06, 2020
Elections Saskatchewan preparing to process tens of thousands of mail-in ballots
During the previous provincial election, about 4,000 mail-in ballots were processed and counted by Elections Saskatchewan. This time around, chief electoral officer Michael Boda is getting ready for a...
Oct 05, 2020
Biggar area farmer surprised to see so many Ontario hunters in Saskatchewan
Tyler Huber has a farm about halfway between Biggar and Battleford. At this time of year, he's used to getting hunters driving onto his property, shaking hands with him, and asking him if they can hun...
Oct 02, 2020 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
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