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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Vaccination, masks required at major curling event in Swift Current
Organizers of a major curling tournament in Swift Current say COVID-19 precautions will be in full force this weekend. The city is the location of the IG Wealth Management Western Showdown, bringing s...
Oct 09, 2021
Health ministry, SHA to launch 'COVID Enforcement Team' in coming weeks
There could soon be an additional tool to help enforce public health orders in Saskatchewan: A COVID Enforcement Team (CET). During a Saskatchewan Health Authority physician town hall meeting Thursday...
Oct 08, 2021
Physician town hall paints grim pictures of Sask. COVID-19 situation
During Thursday night's virtual meeting with health-care professionals across the province, the top doctors in the Saskatchewan Health Authority painted a picture of dwindling hospital beds, patients ...
Oct 08, 2021
Latest COVID update Oct. 8: 576 new cases, including 147 kids under 12
More than a quarter of the new COVID-19 cases reported in Saskatchewan on Friday were children aged 11 and under. There were 576 new cases announced, including 147 kids under 12. That age group isn't ...
Oct 08, 2021
SUN worried about new provincial command for COVID
The head of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses isn't sure a "provincial command centre" is what the government should be worried about right now. On Thursday morning, Premier Scott Moe announced that pr...
Oct 08, 2021
Saskatchewan's unemployment rate drops in September
Saskatchewan recorded the largest month-to-month drop in unemployment rate in Canada in September. According to job numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada, the province’s unemployment rate...
Oct 08, 2021
Prairie Spirit School Division facing bus driver shortage
The wheels on the bus do not go round and round for one school division in Saskatchewan. The Prairie Spirit School Division said it is facing a "critical issue" when it comes to staffing bus drivers. ...
Oct 08, 2021
Saskatchewan not asking for COVID-19 help, yet
Saskatchewan hospitals are full of COVID patients and on Thursday there were 78 people reported in ICU, which is one off the number of ICU beds the province has on a normal day. But at a news conferen...
Oct 08, 2021
Gov't denies Meili claim that COVID ICU patients being moved out of province
Has Saskatchewan already started moving COVID-19 patients outside of the province? NDP Leader Ryan Meili believes it is. During a Thursday press conference responding to Premier Scott Moe's Thursday m...
Oct 07, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Latest COVID update Oct. 7: 241 missing cases added, daily total at 650
The Saskatchewan government has added 241 previously missing cases of COVID-19 to the province's total. As a result, the Ministry of Health reported 650 new cases Thursday, which would be the highest ...
Oct 07, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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