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Sask. seeing shortage of speech pathologists
Saskatchewan, along with the rest of Canada, is struggling with a shortage of speech pathologists. Speech pathology is the study and treatment of speech and language problems. Loredana Cuglietta, chai...
Lindsay Newman
Mar 11, 2023
Sask. among provinces losing health transfer money for charging private fees
Not long after agreeing to a health-care funding deal with the federal government, the Saskatchewan government is seeing some money go the other way. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced Friday ...
CKOM News
Mar 10, 2023
Unions want voices heard after federal health-care deal reached
The Saskatchewan government announced Wednesday it has formally accepted Ottawa's offer of increased health-care funding. The deal includes a one-time, $61-million investment into health care for the ...
Mia Holowaychuk
Mar 02, 2023
Barbara Cape, president of SEIU-West. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'It isn't enough:' Merriman says Ottawa not meeting health-care obligation
Saskatchewan has accepted the federal government's offer of increased health-care funding, but the provincial health minister says it falls short of Ottawa's obligation. The funding boost includes a o...
Mia Holowaychuk
Mar 01, 2023
Paul Merriman, Saskatchewan's health minister. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Saskatchewan reaches agreement with feds on health-care funding
Saskatchewan has formally accepted the federal government's offer on health-care funding. According to a media release, the agreement in principle announced Wednesday will see $5.94 billion in federal...
CKOM News
Mar 01, 2023
Hindley thinks new workers from Philippines will have direct impact
Saskatchewan’s minister of rural and remote health feels health-care workers arriving from the Philippines will make an impact right away in the province, especially in remote communities. On Th...
CKOM News
Feb 23, 2023
Sask. offers hope to cancer patients in form of new treatment
Gary Carriere was told more than once he was going to die. The cancer survivor from Cumberland House underwent aggressive chemotherapy and a stem cell transfer before travelling to Montreal to receive...
Libby Gray
Feb 21, 2023
Saskatchewan cancer survivor Gary Carriere speaks with Health Minister Paul Merriman at the University of Saskatchewan on Feb. 21, 2023. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
'We're not taking care of them': Family upset as only pediatric gastroenterologist leaves Sask.
Emotion filled Tracy Gartner's voice as she talked about the severe sickness her young daughter dealt with and the one doctor who figured it out and put them on a treatment plan — the same docto...
Lisa Schick
Feb 16, 2023
Union president calls for federal money to go to public health care in Sask.
As the provincial government holds out its hands for the federal money just agreed to on Monday, the head of one of Saskatchewan's health-care unions believes that money should be kept in the public s...
Lisa Schick
Feb 14, 2023
Premiers accept federal government's health-care funding plan
The Canadian government and its provincial counterparts have a deal. During a Council of the Federation conference call Monday afternoon, premiers from across the country agreed to a proposed health-c...
CKOM News
Feb 13, 2023
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