Murray Wood: When will Canada punch back against China's bully tactics?
Dear China... Um, yeah, can you fill out this TPS report? That'd be great. Murray Wood says Canada should get tough in t...
Author Archives: Lisa Schick
Rain, cool weather helps with wildfires, fire ban lifted
The heat warnings are over and so is the fire ban for provincial parks and Crown land in Saskatchewan. As of Monday at 11 a.m., the province rescinded the provincial fire ban. Steve Roberts, vice-pres...
Jul 19, 2021
Dozens of COVID tickets still waiting for court in Saskatchewan
Less than half of the tickets relating to violations of Saskatchewan’s public health orders under the COVID-19 pandemic have been resolved. According to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice, 265...
Jul 16, 2021
Restaurateur left in the lurch after ability to sell offsale abruptly cancelled
Joshua McLean said he was shocked when he woke up last week to an email explaining his restaurant wouldn't be able to operate as an offsale as of four days later. McLean owns Homestead Bar A Vin, a wi...
Jul 12, 2021
Hidden Crisis: Saskatchewan government defends its work
As the drug overdose crisis has gotten worse in Saskatchewan, the voices calling for help have gotten louder. Many in the industry believe, as a health issue, the responsibility lies with the provinci...
Jul 09, 2021 Everett Hindley is Saskatchewan's Minister for Mental Health and Addictions as well as Rural and Remote Health, and Seniors (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Hidden Crisis: The front lines of the fight
A needle, a vial of naloxone and someone who knows how to use them -- for drug users who take too much, these may be the only things that stand between them and joining the list of those who've died b...
Jul 08, 2021 Prairie Harm Reduction executive director Jason Mercredi stands in front of the safe consumption site. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM file photo)
Restrictions are ending but COVID is not: Premier
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Premier Scott Moe said he looked forward to the day he could shake Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab's hand, and on Wednesday he did just that - with the...
Jul 07, 2021
Hidden Crisis: Helping others out of the dark
Less than 10 years ago, Danita Wahpoosewyan was an addict, finding drugs where she could to ease her trauma and pain. But these days, she has kicked the habit and, in the midst of an overdose death cr...
Jul 07, 2021 Danita Wahpoosewyan is a wellness warrior at Wellness Wheel. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Northern community dealing with COVID-19 outbreak, Delta variant
As many Saskatchewan communities watch their COVID-19 case numbers drop, the Hatchet Lake Dene Nation — including Wollaston Lake — is dealing with a fast-moving outbreak. The outbreak was ...
Jul 05, 2021
Hidden Crisis: Families left behind
When she was a kid, Emily Bryce would dress up with her friends for the midnight release of the latest Harry Potter book, or she'd come home excited to be learning about imaginary numbers in math clas...
Jul 05, 2021
'Odious act': Sask. Muslims frightened after man attacked in Saskatoon
After a Muslim man in Saskatoon was attacked Friday morning because of his faith, some in the Muslim community are scared. Muhammad Kashif said the people made comments about his clothes and his relig...
Jun 28, 2021
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