Murray Wood: When football is just a game
There is extra anticipation around the Roughriders' first-place showdown with the Elks tonight. Murray Wood says everyon...
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OUTSaskatoon says province's tweet on HIV reiterates 'archaic mentalities,' expresses disappointment
"No population should be stigmatized by their government." Those were the words of OUTSaskatoon's new interim executive director, Jack Saddleback, following a social media post by the Government of Sa...
Dec 02, 2020 A since-deleted tweet by the Government of Saskatchewan promoting 'information on HIV in Saskatchewan' on World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 2020. (Twitter/Government of Saskatchewan)
Ambulance fees for Saskatchewan seniors reduced
The Saskatchewan Party followed through on another of its campaign promises Wednesday. One day after introducing the Saskatchewan Economic Recovery Rebate -- which it had promised to do in the runup t...
Dec 02, 2020
Keeping ice safety top of mind this winter
Whether you're snowmobiling, ice fishing or cross-country skiing this winter, the Water Security Agency wants you to keep ice safety top of mind. "This year is very important because I know everyone w...
Dec 02, 2020
4 COVID-related deaths reported at Saskatoon’s Luther Care Home
A care home in Saskatoon is reporting four COVID-related deaths since an outbreak was declared last month. The Saskatchewan Health Authority declared an outbreak at the Luther Special Care Home in the...
Dec 02, 2020 (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
FSIN executive shares his battle with COVID-19
David Pratt will tell you COVID-19 is no joke. The second vice-chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations has been fighting off the virus for nearly two weeks after he first started showi...
Dec 02, 2020 Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Vice-Chief David Pratt. (650 CKOM/File photo)
One dead in four-vehicle crash southwest of Saskatoon
A four-vehicle collision southwest of Saskatoon killed one man on Tuesday evening. According to RCMP, the crash happened around 7:20 p.m. along Highway 7, between Delisle and Laura. RCMP from Warman, ...
Dec 02, 2020
Saskatoon police airplane involved in arrest of tagger
The Saskatoon Police Service's Air Support Unit caught a tagger in the act late Tuesday. According to police, officers were called to St. Frances Cree Bilingual School on McPherson Avenue at about 11:...
Dec 02, 2020 (SPS Air Support Unit/Twitter)
Muskoday woman named first female president of national body representing Aboriginal firefighters
Just over two decades after joining the Muskoday Volunteer Fire Department, Michelle Vandevord can now lay claim to being elected the first female president of the Aboriginal Firefighters' Association...
Dec 02, 2020
Drive-through COVID-19 testing coming to Prince Albert
A new drive-through COVID-19 testing site opens Wednesday in Prince Albert According to a media release from the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), the new site is being opened in response to increa...
Dec 02, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
New app brings together those who need snow shoveled and those willing to do it
Need your driveway shoveled, but don't have the ability to or the time? There's an app for that. Bailey Mosiman of Regina is the owner of NoSnow, an app that brings those who need snow shoveled, and t...
Dec 01, 2020
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