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SHA changing COVID-19 exposure alerts to only when self-isolation required
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is changing the way it issues COVID-19 exposure alerts. In a release, it says it will no longer be issuing self-monitoring COVID-19 announcements beginning Nov....
Nov 13, 2020 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
Some Saskatoon high schools moving to Level 3 status under Safe Schools Plan
Eight Saskatoon Public Schools (SPS) high schools and four Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools (GSCS) will move to Level 3 status under the Safe Schools Plan after Friday's announcement by the provinci...
Nov 13, 2020
Saskatoon police lay charge in anti-mask protest
The Saskatoon Police Service says it has issued a fine to one of the key participants in an anti-mask protest at the Midtown Plaza and several other downtown businesses last weekend. Police say this i...
Nov 13, 2020 (650 CKOM file photo)
Woman jumps from University Bridge
One woman is dead after jumping from the University Bridge Friday afternoon. Police received a call at roughly 2:45 p.m. Friday of a woman seen lying on the ice on the river. She was declared dead at ...
Nov 13, 2020
City progressing on residential snow clearing
The City of Saskatoon says progress on residential snow clearing is being made after the weekend blizzard that brought huge amounts of snow and high winds to the city. As of Friday morning, the City s...
Nov 13, 2020 (Rachel Hamilton/Submitted)
Saskatoon police seek help finding 11-year-old girl
Saskatoon police are asking for help locating an 11-year-old girl. Lyla Kent-Armstrong was last seen at a house in the 200 block of Avenue O South at approximately 2:00 a.m. on Thursday. Armstrong's f...
Nov 13, 2020 Lyla Kent Armstrong (Saskatoon Police Service)
Saskatoon civic election poised for unorthodox ending
Despite plenty of criticism and arguments against completing Saskatoon's civic election on Friday, returning officer Scott Bastian is going ahead with a subdued ending. All six mayoral candidates had ...
Nov 12, 2020 People wait in line to vote at a Saskatoon advance polling station on Nov. 4, 2020. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Well-known political studies professor Joe Garcea dies
Online tributes are pouring in for Joe Garcea, a popular professor of political studies at the University of Saskatchewan who has passed away. Garcea was not only a big part of the U of S community, b...
Nov 12, 2020 Joe Garcea
(usask.ca)
School bus service cancelled in Saskatoon on Friday
For a second day, both Saskatoon Public Schools (SPS) and Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools (GSCS) have cancelled bus and taxi service. In separate news releases, SPS and GSCS say there won't be any ...
Nov 12, 2020
SUN sounds alarm bells over ICU move at RUH and COVID outbreak at long term care facility
Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) President Tracy Zambory says nurses are worried about conditions in the newly re-located ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon. T...
Nov 12, 2020 Royal University Hospital.
(Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
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