Sarah Mills: Teachers deserve gratitude as school year wraps up
There's a collective sigh coming from Saskatchewan's teachers as the school year ends. Sarah Mills says teachers are ask...
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Meili ‘dusting off the stethoscope’ to help at testing facility during COVID-19 crisis
NDP leader Ryan Meili is heading back to the doctor’s chair to help fight on the front-lines of the COVID-19 crisis. The former family physician says he’s renewed his license and has start...
Apr 20, 2020
'I think there's reason to be optimistic': VIDO- InterVac's Dr. Scott Napper on COVID-19 treatments
Even with the best-case scenarios, a potential COVID-19 vaccine is several months, to a year or more away, says VIDO-InterVac's Dr. Scott Napper. In the meantime, scientists like those at Saskatoon's ...
Apr 20, 2020 (David Stobbe/StobbePhoto.ca)
Police make arrests, recover loaded shotgun after pursuit
Two people are in custody and a loaded shotgun was recovered after a police pursuit ended just after midnight Monday. Officers witnessed a pickup truck travelling at a high rate of speed eastbound on ...
Apr 20, 2020 (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon student trailblazer to become first female Indigenous president in USSU history
In 111 years, the University of Saskatchewan Students Union (USSU) has never had an Indigenous female as president. That's all about to change in just over two weeks, thanks to Saskatoon-born Autumn L...
Apr 18, 2020 Autumn LaRose-Smith will become the first female Indigenous president in USSU's 111 year history. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival postponed
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected another huge festival in the province. The 34th annual SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival has been postponed. It had been scheduled for July 3-12 in Saskatoon. In a ...
Apr 17, 2020 (Tourism Saskatoon)
Saskatoon Fire deals with multiple suspicious fires in core neighbourhoods
In just over three weeks, 10 homes in Saskatoon's core neighbourhoods have been destroyed by suspicious fires. Eight of those 10 homes were vacant, according to the Saskatoon Fire Department's assista...
Apr 16, 2020 (Submitted/Saskatoon Fire Dept.)
Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan suspending 2020 season indefinitely
To be, or not to be? It's looking to be more the latter for Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan in 2020 after it announced Thursday it was putting its summer series on hold indefinitely. The group is hopi...
Apr 16, 2020 Will Brooks, the artistic producer of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, kicks off homecoming celebrations for the local theatre company on Aug. 10, 2019. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Medical dispatcher helps couple deliver healthy baby girl
Medical Communications Officer Jade Morgan answered a call Tuesday morning that ended up being a bit different than normal. A 37-year-old woman was in labour at 7:49 a.m. and about to give birth. "The...
Apr 15, 2020 Medical Communications Officer Jade Morgan helped talk a Saskatoon couple through delivering a health baby girl on April 14, 2020. (Medavie Health Services)
Saskatoon man facing more than 50 drugs and weapons charges
A 29-year-old Saskatoon man is facing more than 50 charges after being found in possession of drugs and weapons. At around 9:30 p.m. on April 9, police were called to the 2400 block of Arlington Avenu...
Apr 15, 2020
Family identify woman fatally shot in Saskatoon
Family have identified a woman fatally shot in Saskatoon early Monday. "Tanya Alcrow didn't deserve this, she was taken away from us on such tragic terms," her aunt, Cynthia Ann Alcrow, said in a Face...
Apr 15, 2020
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