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'We're quite worried:' Core areas in Saskatoon without vital resources following COVID-related facility closures: PHR
As COVID cases continue to climb across Saskatchewan early this winter, the lone warm-up location in Saskatoon's Pleasant Hill neighbourhood has shut down. The facility also houses Pleasant Hill's onl...
Nov 24, 2020 Jason Mercredi, executive director of AIDS Saskatoon shows off Saskatoon's newly finished safe consumption site that should be up and running by late May. (Harrison Brooks/650 CKOM)
After early November blizzard, Saskatoon's deficit now sits at $20.1 million
Saskatoon's projected deficit is now estimated at $20.1 million, thanks in part to the clearing and clean up efforts of a blizzard in early November that essentially paralyzed the city. At the governa...
Nov 24, 2020 A residential street in Saskatoon, Nov. 11, 2020.
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La Ronge teacher set to release Christmas song written during coronavirus quarantine
Dara Schindelka, a singer/songwriter in La Ronge, has announced the release of a new song which was written during quarantine after she tested positive for the coronavirus last month. "There's a lot o...
Nov 24, 2020 Dara Schindelka wrote the song while in isolation after testing positive for the coronavirus.
(Dara Schindelka/Submitted photo)
VIDO-InterVac seeks support from City of Saskatoon to become "Centre for Pandemic Research"
The director of Saskatoon's VIDO-InterVac facility is hoping to get the city's support to become a national centre for pandemic research. Dr. Volker Gerdts and Lawyer Doug Richardson made a presentati...
Nov 23, 2020 Dr. Volker Gerdts, director of VIDO. (University of Saskatchewan)
Move to online instruction for some Saskatoon students as two high schools see positive COVID-19 cases
In a release sent late Monday afternoon, Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools (GSCS) says both St. Joseph High School and Holy Cross High School have had a person test positive for COVID-19. The GSCS wa...
Nov 23, 2020
Saskatoon city council votes for bylaw change to allow for power and electricity rebates
SaskPower and Saskatoon Light and Power (SL&P) customers are going to get a 10 per cent break on their bills, starting Dec.1, and it will continue on until Nov. 30, 2021. It's part of a SaskParty ...
Nov 23, 2020
Sask. Hockey awaiting provincial sport review, third team has COVID outbreak
Hockey is beginning to feel the pinch of COVID-19. Just over a week following the shut-down of the Martensville Minor Hockey Association, Saskatchewan has its third team listed on the COVID-19 exposur...
Nov 23, 2020 The Balcarres Broncs are pictured in a tweet on Nov. 11, 2020. (Broncs/Twitter)
Moe self-isolating after potential COVID exposure
Premier Scott Moe is self-isolating after potentially being exposed to a person who has tested positive for COVID-19. In a media release Monday afternoon, the Saskatchewan government said Moe wasn't e...
Nov 23, 2020
Latest COVID update Nov. 23
Four more Saskatchewan residents have died after testing positive for COVID-19. It's the highest single-day total of deaths reported in the province since the pandemic began in March. To date, ...
Nov 23, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Adopt-A-Family 2020: The need has never been greater
Bring some Christmas cheer to a family this year. That's the theme of 650 CKOM's Adopt-A-Family. With the help of the Salvation Army, our team matches businesses, groups, families and people together ...
Nov 23, 2020 (650 CKOM)
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