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Latest COVID update June 27: Sask. hits 1.1 million vaccinations
On a day where recoveries doubled new cases in Saskatchewan, the province also hit the 1.1 million mark for vaccinations. The Ministry of Health released its latest COVID update Sunday. Included are r...
Jun 27, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
VIDO vaccine to be put to test this summer in Saskatoon
The vaccine developed by the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) is coming to Saskatoon for its clinical trial testing. The trial testing is expected to beg...
Jun 27, 2021 Research team at the University of Saskatchewan's VIDO-InterVac. (University of Saskatchewan/submitted)
'It is a time to reflect:' Melville postpones Canada Day celebrations
Canada Day celebrations won't be happening this year in Melville. The southeastern Saskatchewan city announced Saturday evening that it will be postponing its events, including a parade, fireworks, an...
Jun 27, 2021
Saskatoon mayor reacts to targeted attack against Muslim man
Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark said Friday he was upset to hear a Muslim man had been assaulted in the city. "I am horrified and saddened about the targeted attack on Mohammad Kashif in our own city," ...
Jun 25, 2021 Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark. (650 CKOM file photo)
'Every day was hell on earth': Marieval survivor shares his story
For Marieval Indian Residential School survivor Robert Kakakaway, every day at the facility was a nightmare. "From Day 1 until my final day there on June 30, 1966, every day was hell on earth, that's ...
Jun 25, 2021
Latest COVID update June 25: 56 new cases, 609 active cases
The number of cases of the Delta variant of concern of COVID-19 is continuing to climb in Saskatchewan. In its daily update Friday, the Ministry of Health said 178 cases of that variant had been ident...
Jun 25, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Doors, steps of Saskatoon Catholic cathedral covered with paint
The doors and front steps of a downtown Saskatoon church were desecrated with red paint Thursday afternoon in response to the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Res...
Jun 25, 2021 Red paint was spattered on the doors of St. Paul's Co-Cathedral after the discovery of 751 unmarked graves near the former Marieval Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation on Thursday. (Donna Heimbecker/Facebook)
'We're finally being heard:' NDP critic on discovery of unmarked graves
As a residential school survivor, the Saskatchewan NDP’s Betty Nippi-Albright was not surprised by revelations of 751 unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowe...
Jun 24, 2021
Latest COVID update June 24: Nearly 25,000 new vaccinations done
For the second time in less than a week, Saskatchewan has set a daily record for COVID-19 vaccinations. The Ministry of Health said Thursday there were 24,971 doses of vaccine administered in the prov...
Jun 24, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Graduating class of 2021 waves goodbye to pandemic learning
The graduating class of 2021 is ready to wave goodbye to plenty of terms that were unfamiliar less than two years ago. Quints, cohorts, remote learning and staggered start times didn't mean much to st...
Jun 24, 2021 Tommy Douglas Collegiate celebrated graduates with an outdoor ceremony on the front lawn of the school on June 23, 2021. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
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