Murray Wood: Who's hot and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list inclu...
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Plastic bag ban takes effect in Regina
As of Tuesday, shoppers will have to do an even better job of remembering reusable bags or bins when they head out — the City of Regina's ban on plastic checkout bags takes effect. The ban was a...
Feb 01, 2022
Moe doubles down on goal to remove vaccination, negative test mandate
On the same day Saskatchewan hit the highest number of COVID-related hospitalizations since the pandemic started, Premier Scott Moe repeated and explained his push to end the vaccination or negative t...
Jan 31, 2022
Looking far ahead, Sask. leaders finding some optimism on COVID
As COVID cases continue to grow by leaps and bounds in Saskatchewan and some worry over the government's response - or what some feel is a lack thereof - news around the pandemic can be quite grim. Bu...
Jan 29, 2022
'Underwater,' 'overwhelmed': Doctors presentation paints dire picture of Sask. health care
On Thursday, the Saskatchewan government announced a loosening of the isolation rules around COVID-19 while talking about learning to live with the virus. Just a few hours later, doctors in the provin...
Jan 28, 2022
Health authority starting process of moving patients in city hospitals to rural areas
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is working through its plans to manage the increased demands on hospitals due to Omicron, and part of that is moving patients around. Derek Miller, interim chie...
Jan 28, 2022
Saskatchewan changes COVID-related self-isolation requirements
Saskatchewan is changing the rules around isolation as it tries to move the province's residents towards living with COVID-19 like any other respiratory virus. "We're moving gradually to living with C...
Jan 27, 2022
Local markets feeling inflation and supply crunch in a different way
Even though the places local markets get their products tend to be within a day's drive, they're still seeing effects from recent inflation and supply chain issues related to weather and international...
Jan 27, 2022
Urban patients could be moved to rural centres as hospitalizations rise
Saskatchewan's premier and health minister both are expecting hospitalizations to keep going up while the province goes through a fifth COVID-19 wave and — while not putting in any new health me...
Jan 24, 2022
Data problem responsible for 2 weeks without COVID deaths
With an update to the COVID-19 dashboard on Friday, the province revealed a data problem has kept multiple deaths, dozens of hospital cases, and thousands of resolved cases and negative PCR tests off ...
Jan 21, 2022
Shahab says 'fully vaccinated' should include boosters
For Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, the meaning of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 has changed. "My definition of being fully vaccinated now means that you are boosted if you're 9...
Jan 14, 2022
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