Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Sask. businessman calls B.C. vaccine requirements 'seamless'
Shawn Moen was a little nervous to travel to B.C. last week for a sailing trip with his father. "It just happened that we came out when the vaccine requirements in B.C. were in full force," he told Br...
Sep 29, 2021 (9 Mile Legacy Brewing/Facebook)
Close contacts in Sask. schools need to self-isolate, NDP says
The NDP's education critic says there's still time for the government to correct its approach to COVID-19 in schools and order close contacts to self-isolate. Currently, when there are positive cases ...
Sep 28, 2021
Saskatoon gym to introduce fob feature to help with vaccination screening
With proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test required at various non-essential businesses beginning Friday, Anytime Fitness is developing its own means of vaccination confirmation. Steven Lam...
Sep 28, 2021 (Anytime Fitness/Facebook)
Latest COVID update Sept. 28: Record hospitalizations, 10 deaths reported
Hospitalizations and ICU admissions due to COVID-19 reached record levels again Tuesday in Saskatchewan. According to the Ministry of Health, there were 311 COVID patients in the province's health-car...
Sep 28, 2021 (Dr. Susan Shaw/Twitter)
'Suspicious package' turns out to be harmless
The police investigation into a suspicious package in downtown Saskatoon has determined the package wasn't suspicious after all. Just before noon on Tuesday, police received a call about a package loc...
Sep 28, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
QR codes back as launch of proof-of-vaccination policy nears
QR codes are back for Saskatchewan residents to prove they've had a COVID-19 vaccination. The codes were removed from MySaskHealthRecord accounts on Friday due to privacy issues. On Tuesday, the Minis...
Sep 28, 2021
Heat records broken in 12 Sask. communities Monday, more likely to fall Tuesday
The heat is still hanging around, just days before we turn the calendar. A total of 12 records were broken in Saskatchewan communities Monday, mostly located in the southern portions of the province. ...
Sep 28, 2021
'Tickets will be laid:' Saskatoon police, mayor on PPC election night rally
"Tickets will be laid." Those were the words of Saskatoon Police Deputy Chief Randy Huisman on the Brent Loucks Show, in respect to roughly 300 people in attendance at an election night party held by ...
Sep 28, 2021 PPC supporters gathered at the Saskatoon Inn on Sept. 20, 2021. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM file photo)
It'll be weeks before Sask. sees benefit of vaccination uptake, says U of S epidemiologist
Provincial health measures designed to curb the spread of COVID-19 and to promote vaccination need to go further, according to a University of Saskatchewan epidemiologist. Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine says w...
Sep 28, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
School divisions see some classes return to remote learning due to COVID
COVID-19 numbers continue to rise in Saskatchewan and the numbers have moved some students back to online learning temporarily. In-class learning has been largely uninterrupted in the province, but ou...
Sep 27, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
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