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. businessman wants 'equal playing field' from COVID rules
Saskatchewan businesses losing customers to proof-of-vaccination requirements are asking for current public health measures to be changed. Conrad Bendig owns and operates five taverns and liquor store...
Oct 27, 2021 Conrad Bendig owns five taverns and liquor stores in northern Saskatchewan, which are losing business with current public health restrictions. (Conrad Bendig/Submitted)
Latest COVID update Oct. 27: 223 new cases, 271 in hospital, 5 deaths
Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in Saskatchewan dropped to their lowest level in more than a month Wednesday. The Ministry of Health reported 271 COVID patients were in Saskatchewan hospitals, the fe...
Oct 27, 2021 (paNOW)
Throne Speech goes on despite protest outside Legislative Building
The second session of Saskatchewan's 29th legislature started Wednesday with differing priorities for the government and the opposition, and a change of plans thanks to threats. There was supposed to ...
Oct 27, 2021
Frustration mounts with new Saskatoon bylaw on gathering limits
Saskatoon city council's decision to move on with a bylaw to restrict the size of gatherings has stirred some angry reactions. On Monday, city council voted 8-3 in favour of drafting a bylaw to limit ...
Oct 26, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatchewan reveals plan to vaccinate kids 5 to 11 against COVID
Health Canada has yet to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11, but Saskatchewan is looking to be ready for when that green light is given. The province unveiled its vaccinati...
Oct 26, 2021 Dr. Tania Diener, medical health officer responsible for immunization and physician co-lead of the SHA’s COVID-19 immunization campaign, speaks to the media on Oct. 26, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Latest COVID update Oct. 26: 126 new cases, 10 deaths
Saskatchewan has reported its lowest daily total of new COVID-19 cases in more than two months. However, one day after announcing there weren't any deaths due to the coronavirus, the provincial govern...
Oct 26, 2021 (Lisa Schick/650 CKOM file photo)
Moe admits mask mandate could have come sooner, but no further restrictions announced
Premier Scott Moe spent much of his State of the Province address Monday on Saskatchewan's flourishing economic prospects as the province emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic before facing questions fro...
Oct 25, 2021 Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe speaks to media after his State of the Province address at Prairieland Park in Saskatoon on Oct. 25, 2021. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
Feds sending six critical-care nurses to Saskatchewan
Help is on the way for Saskatchewan's beleaguered health-care workers - but it's not as much as the province was after. During a COVID-19 technical briefing Monday, Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency p...
Oct 25, 2021
Latest COVID update Oct. 25: 170 new cases, no new deaths
For the first time in 51 days, Saskatchewan didn't report a death due to COVID-19 on Monday. In its daily COVID update, the Ministry of Health said there weren't any COVID-related fatalities to announ...
Oct 25, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatchewan set to offer monoclonal antibodies as COVID treatment
Saskatchewan has added another weapon in its fight against COVID-19. In a media release, the provincial government announced monoclonal antibodies will be available starting Monday to what it called &...
Oct 25, 2021
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