Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Sask. gov’t pondering privatized surgeries to reduce wait list
The Government of Saskatchewan may have a plan to reduce its surgical wait list. On Thursday, the government said it might bring back a program that privatized some surgeries to help reduce the wait l...
Nov 04, 2021
Latest COVID update Nov. 4: 188 new cases, no deaths
For the first time in 10 days, Saskatchewan didn't report a death due to COVID-19 in its daily update Thursday. However, as of Wednesday, the province still had the country's highest rate of deaths ov...
Nov 04, 2021
Saskatchewan increases penalties facing trespassers
Saskatchewan is getting tougher on trespassers. The provincial government on Thursday introduced changes to The Trespass to Property Amendment Act, 2021, which will create stiffer penalties on trespas...
Nov 04, 2021
‘Realize the sacrifices’: Remembrance for surviving service members, families
It has been nearly 30 years since Col. Gwen Bourque, currently 38th Canadian Brigade Group Commander, joined the military. She spoke at the ceremony on Wednesday in the rotunda at the Legislative Buil...
Nov 03, 2021
Latest COVID update Nov. 3: 173 new cases, 3 deaths, 1,765 active cases
More than 800,000 Saskatchewan residents have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines and are considered fully vaccinated. In its daily COVID update Wednesday, the Ministry of Health said 1,662 second...
Nov 03, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
‘Worst is over,’ doctor says but adds health-care system still struggling
According to infectious disease physician Dr. Alex Wong, it appears that the fourth wave of COVID-19 — the deadliest wave of the pandemic yet — is waning. "All of the leading indicators li...
Nov 03, 2021
At least 26,000 surgeries delayed in Sask. due to pandemic
It's not just people who are getting COVID-19 and having to go to the hospital who are being affected by the pandemic, it's also people who haven't been able to get surgery because a specialist isn't ...
Nov 03, 2021
One Sask. ICU patient to return from Ontario, no other transfers planned
A second ICU patient was scheduled to return to Saskatchewan from Ontario on Tuesday. Saskatchewan health officials have sent 26 patients to Ontario to receive care over the past several weeks. The fi...
Nov 02, 2021 (SHA/Submitted)
Shahab urges everyone to 'stay vigilant' during winter months
Daily COVID-19 case numbers in Saskatchewan are continuing a slow decline, with Tuesday's total of 107 confirmed cases the lowest number in nearly three months. However, that doesn't mean this is a ti...
Nov 02, 2021
COVID vaccine fraud happening in Saskatchewan
Instead of someone paying for another person to write an exam for them at school, Saskatchewan officials say people are hiring others to get their COVID-19 vaccination. Saskatchewan Health Authority C...
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