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Sask. doctors not fully vaccinated must tell patients: College of Physicians and Surgeons
If you're going to see a doctor outside of a hospital who isn't fully vaccinated against COVID-19, they now have to tell you that. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan is out with a ...
Nov 24, 2021
City proposes 3.51 per cent property tax hike for 2022, 3.14 per cent in 2023
The City of Saskatoon has released its preliminary two-year budget -- and it could see homeowners digging a little deeper into their pockets over the next couple of years. The operating budget propose...
Nov 24, 2021
Kids, parents all smiles for first day of child vaccinations
At long last, parents and kids excitedly trekked to vaccine clinics across the province Wednesday for the first day of child vaccinations in Saskatchewan. The province received 112,000 doses of Pfizer...
Nov 24, 2021 Rogan Knaus with his dad, Steven, at the Prarieland Park vaccine clinic on Nov. 24, 2021. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
Latest COVID update Nov. 24: 110 recoveries, 90 new cases, 0 deaths
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan fell Wednesday to its lowest mark since mid-August. According to the Ministry of Health, the average was 95, or 7.9 per 100,000 people. It h...
Nov 24, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Helicopter pilot becomes local hero in rescue mission in B.C.
Times have called for desperate measures in the lower mainland in British Columbia recently. Several families and animals have been stranded in certain areas with nowhere to escape due to the mass flo...
Nov 24, 2021 Russ Cmolik and the dog he rescued. (Russ Cmolik/Submitted)
Parents, doctor react to first day of children vaccinations
Kids between the ages of five and 11 have started rolling up their sleeves throughout Saskatchewan as COVID-19 vaccinations began Wednesday for that age group. Regina's Tyrell Brown is one of many par...
Nov 24, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Greg Ewasko in pursuit of perfect ice at curling trials
Greg Ewasko is the iceman. What sounds like the name of a comic book villain is actually Ewasko's unofficial job title. The official job title is chief ice technician, a job he has spent decades worki...
Nov 24, 2021 Greg Ewasko has spent the past 27 years as an ice-maker striving to make each sheet as perfect as can be. (Curling Canada/Submitted)
Finn family to finally get health-care money from province
After more than a year of fighting with Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health, the Finn family will now be reimbursed for the hundreds of thousands of dollars they spent on lifesaving health care for thei...
Nov 24, 2021
Latest COVID update Nov. 23: 69 new cases, two deaths
Saskatchewan reported the fewest daily COVID-19 vaccinations in more than two months Tuesday. The Ministry of Health's update said there were 479 shots given in the latest reporting period, the fewest...
Nov 23, 2021
SHA online vaccination system back up and running after crash
Saskatchewan's online booking system for COVID-19 vaccinations started taking appointments for kids aged five to 11 at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning. Within 10 minutes, the system had crashed. "Ther...
Nov 23, 2021
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