Murray Wood: April is the most frustrating month on the prairies
As much of Saskatchewan deals with another spring snowstorm, Murray Wood says we're all asking the same question: This i...
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Ontario extends program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid ER closures
TORONTO - Ontario is extending a program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid temporary ER closures for another six months. The province established what's now known as the Temporary Locum Pr...
Mar 22, 2024
Tech platforms face 'whack-a-mole' situation in battling health misinformation
TORONTO - When Dr. Garth Graham thinks about health misinformation on social media platforms, he envisions a garden. No matter how bountiful or verdant that garden is, even the head of YouTube's globa...
Mar 22, 2024
Federal cannabis review calls for look at tax structure among 54 recommendations
A group convened by the federal government to study the legislation that made cannabis legal is recommending the country review one of the industry's biggest gripes: excise taxes charged to pot produc...
Mar 21, 2024
Non-profit taken off support agency roster after Alberta stroke patient sent to motel
Alberta's health minister says a non-profit agency that shipped a stroke patient to a motel for his long-term recovery will be taken off a roster of agencies offered to provide such support. Adriana L...
Mar 21, 2024
SHA warns of possible hepatitis exposure at Saskatoon Shoppers Drug Mart
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is warning the public about a possible risk of exposure to hepatitis at a Saskatoon drug store. According to the health authority, those who purchased food and drinks...
Mar 21, 2024 'People with exposures within the past 14 days may be eligible for Hepatitis A vaccine to decrease the likelihood of disease,' the Sask. Health Authority says. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
'We are sorry': Manitoba premier apologizes to two men switched at birth decades ago
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew formally apologized at the provincial legislature Thursday to two men who were switched at birth in a hospital almost 70 years ago and only late in life discovere...
Mar 21, 2024
Nearly 8 in 10 AAPI adults in US think abortion should be legal, AP-NORC poll finds
WASHINGTON (AP) - With abortion rights poised to be one of the major issues in the 2024 election, a new poll shows that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are...
Mar 20, 2024
California voters pass measure pushed by governor to tackle homelessness crisis in razor-thin win
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state's homelessness ...
Mar 20, 2024
Manitoba Tories say bill to ban anti-abortion protests should be expanded
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition Progressive Conservatives say a government plan to ban anti-abortion protests near some health-care facilities should be expanded to cover more areas and all protests,...
Mar 20, 2024
'Stay the hell away from our kids': Holland warns big tobacco about nicotine pouches
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland promised a major crackdown on nicotine pouches Wednesday, and issued a stern warning to tobacco companies he says are marketing the pouches to children. Holland a...
Mar 20, 2024
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 16
Evan catches up on the latest happening in Ottawa, checks in on safety in downtown Saskatoon and discusses a three-strik...
