Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining Canada’s premiers at the table today where he is set to offer them a significant increase towards health-care funding. The premiers say they are going into the talks with an open mind, no red line and a willingness to sign one-on-one agreements with Ottawa for more money. British Columbia Premier David Eby says […]
ADANA, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks that struck eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria, with the discovery of more bodies raising the death toll to more than 5,000. Countries around the world dispatched teams to assist in […]
Tomorrow, Canada’s 13 premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit around the same table in person for the first time since COVID-19 hoping to find a path toward a new long-term health-care funding deal. Both sides are optimistic a deal will emerge but there are some big divides to overcome, including how much more money […]
Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces were caught off guard by a request for help from Saskatchewan during the height of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Documents obtained under freedom of information laws show employees in the federal departments were surprised when Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman sent a letter in […]
Sad news in Rider Nation. Luke Schofield the Rider’s Ambassador to the Children’s Hospital has died. Schofield was a standout defensive player for LeBoldas Collegiate and before that in Regina Minor Football. He had a dream to play for the U of R Rams once he finished high school. A cancer diagnosis cut that dream […]
A Saskatchewan judge has upheld the province’s public health orders that required restaurants to track patrons during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it did not violate the charter rights of people going to get food at a restaurant linked to a significant outbreak. Shorebird Investment Ltd, which operates a hotel and restaurant in Tobin Lake, […]
The Ministry of Health lost $170,000 according to its latest report on losses of public money. The loss was reported to the Ministry of Health in the second quarter of the 2022-23 fiscal year (July 1 to September 30) after a former Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) employee based in Saskatoon amended time records following manager […]
The Saskatchewan ministry of Health is urging Saskatchewan residents to remain vigilant for ticks on themselves and pets this fall. Blacklegged ticks are rare in Saskatchewan, but remain active throughout the fall and are found in tall grass and brush. In Saskatchewan, any ticks found in the fall are likely blacklegged ticks, which can […]
The provincial government will be sending people to Alberta to get private surgeries, but they won’t be paying for the travel. Health minister Paul Merriman said they will be paying a clinic in Calgary to perform 20 knee and hip surgeries per month for those on the province’s surgical wait list. Merriman says sending patients […]
There is a second confirmed case of ‘monkeypox” in Saskatchewan. The first case was announced July 13th. Like the first case, for privacy reasons, the health authority is not sharing the person’s gender, age, or where they are from. Monkeypox is an extremely rare disease, and it is spread through intimate, or prolonged close contact. […]
