Sarah Mills: Throne speech was a big moment for Canada - and King Charles
Sarah Mills says no monarch can ever surpass Queen Elizabeth II, but if there was moment to finally feel that King Charl...
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Latest COVID update Sept. 24: 528 new cases, 276 in hospital, 5 deaths
Numbers continued to rise across the COVID-19 board in Saskatchewan on Friday. The totals of hospitalizations and ICU patients again set records, the number of new cases was the second-highest ever re...
Sep 24, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
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
SJHL hit with a COVID-19 case on the eve of new season
The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) is not getting the smooth start to the season it had hoped for. The league announced on Thursday all Melville Millionaires games are suspended until furthe...
Sep 24, 2021 (SJHL/Facebook)
Effect of health-care slowdown worries SHA
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is in the middle of putting the brakes on most surgeries and services in the province to try to make enough room for COVID-19 patients today and in the near future. A...
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)
Latest COVID update Sept. 23: 460 new cases, 7 deaths, 273 in hospital
The number of COVID-19 patients in Saskatchewan hospitals and ICUs reached record levels again Thursday. The Ministry of Health said there were 273 people with COVID in the province's health-care faci...
Sep 23, 2021 A message written on the sidewalk outside Ellis Hall, next to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Twitter)
No plans for vaccine passports, say Saskatchewan dioceses
According to new restrictions announced by the Saskatchewan government last week, churchgoers will have to don a mask for the next few weeks, but won't be required to show proof of vaccination. Dioces...
Sep 23, 2021 Holy Rosary Cathedral in Regina. (980 CJME file photo)
Tech expert tries to ease concerns about QR codes for proving vax status
A Canadian tech expert says people shouldn't have any fears about their personal information in a bar code. Starting Oct. 1, Saskatchewan is moving to a QR code system to show proof of a COVID-19 vacc...
Sep 23, 2021 (Government of Saskatchewan/Supplied)
'Just go get a vaccine': Mother worries about wait times as son struggles with knee injury
Luke Schofield was a healthy 17-year-old as he headed into his senior year at Dr. Martin LeBoldus High School in Regina. He was one of the captains of the Golden Suns football team, with aspirations o...
Sep 23, 2021 LeBoldus senior Luke Schofield has missed out on his senior year to this point, thanks to a knee injury and COVID wait times. (submitted/Caron Schofield)
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)
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