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'There were lives saved that day:' RUH doctor honoured following carbon monoxide incident
Dr. Mark Wahba knew something wasn't right when he had two patients seek help at Royal University Hospital last Thursday. The emergency medicine physician's two patients were complaining of headaches,...
Jan 18, 2021 Dr. Mark Wahba receives the Saskatoon Fire Department Award of Merit on January 18, 2021. (Saskatoon Fire Department/Facebook)
Anti-conversion therapy draft bylaw goes to Saskatoon city council
A draft bylaw that could eventually prohibit any Saskatoon business or individual from practising conversion therapy will now go to city council for consideration. Conversion therapy is counselling, b...
Jan 18, 2021
Elmwood Kinsmen Manor dealing with confirmed COVID outbreak, calls for access to vaccines
A Saskatoon group home for those with intellectual disabilities is dealing with a confirmed COVID-19 outbreak. According to a statement sent by Elmwood Residences executive director Rachael Steinke, a...
Jan 18, 2021 Elmwood Kinsmen Manor. (Google Maps)
Fire chief calls for changes to bylaw after carbon monoxide scare
A carbon monoxide incident at a city apartment building last week has Saskatoon's fire chief taking a closer look at the city's bylaw for CO alarms. Deadly levels of the odourless gas were found leaki...
Jan 18, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon dog owner warns of parvovirus following death of puppy
Kevin Neskar and his family had lost their long-time companion of ten years in August. After a few months had passed, Neskar decided to welcome a new puppy to his household, Mio, a mixed-breed Shepher...
Jan 17, 2021 Kevin Neskar's pup, Mio succumbed to the parvovirus in late-December after a five-day battle at the U of S Vet Clinic. (submitted/Kevin Neskar)
Latest COVID update Jan. 17: Three deaths, vaccine record broken for second straight day
For the second straight day, a record number of daily COVID vaccines were delivered. In a news release Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported that 3,232 doses across Saskatchewan were delivered Satur...
Jan 17, 2021
Residents at Luther Special Care Home receive COVID vaccine
Residents at Luther Special Care Home in Saskatoon have received their first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine. A COVID outbreak was declared at the facility on Nov. 17, 2020. Nine people who tested po...
Jan 16, 2021 (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Woman killed in Circle Drive collision
A 24-year-old woman is dead after a head-on collision Friday afternoon on Circle Drive. She was driving a southbound vehicle that collided with a northbound vehicle around 1:30 p.m., police said in a ...
Jan 16, 2021 (Submitted photo)
Proactive protection is a must to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
A carbon monoxide scare in Saskatoon has many people thinking of how to safeguard themselves from a similar problem. Dennis McKee, owner of Furnace Guys, first heard about 33 people being rushed to ho...
Jan 15, 2021
Saskatoon family thanks hospital medical staff, EMS for saving their lives
When Jean Romero's son began complaining of headaches Thursday, she told him to take a Tylenol. Then when her daughter, who's taking university classes online, also told her mom she wasn't feeling wel...
Jan 15, 2021 Jean Romero (right) and her two children live in the building where 33 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
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