Saskatoon news

• Celebrating Mother's Day during COVID-19 pandemic

  08-05-2020 23:54 via thestarphoenix.com
  On a Mother's Day unlike previous ones, here are a few ideas to help you celebrate, whether your mom is near, far, or socially isolating. Read More
  
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• Saskatchewan hockey player shares personal letter, coming out to teammates

  08-05-2020 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Brock Weston came out to his teammates in April 2019, and just finished his first full hockey season as an out athlete.
  
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• Coronavirus outbreak: Moe, Shahab explain changes in Saskatchewan’s reopening plan

  08-05-2020 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  “Nobody has had to reopen an economy before,” Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Friday as he explained changes to the province’s reopening plan. Moe and the province’s chief medical officer Dr. Sadiq Shahab said changes were made after hearing suggestions from the business community.
  
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• Saskatchewan voters will head to the polls in October, bipartisan election plan in the works

  08-05-2020 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  House leaders for the government of Saskatchewan and Sask. NDP have been in conversations to form an advisory group to plan for a safe provincial election.
  
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• Saskatchewan will likely see more coronavirus outbreaks in the south: nurses union

  08-05-2020 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  The province will likely see coronavirus outbreaks moving south, according to the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses.
  
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• Coronavirus outbreak: Saskatchewan’s top doctor on how outbreaks will be declared moving forward

  08-05-2020 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan’s chief medical officer Dr. Saqib Shahab outlined how the province would declare outbreaks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that an investigation is declared in an acute care facility even when only one case has been confirmed to “further restrict transmission.” He said outbreaks at private businesses would not be announced to the public unless...
  
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• Mayor: La Loche grocery store to reopen after cleaning

  08-05-2020 23:26 via thestarphoenix.com
  A La Loche grocery store that temporarily closed because an employee tested positive for COVID-19 is hoping to reopen in the coming days after a detailed cleaning, according to the town's mayor. Read More
  
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• Coronavirus outbreak: Number of new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan’s far north still rising

  08-05-2020 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  The number of new cases in Saskatchewan’s far north continues to rise, with 13 of the province’s 14 new cases reported Friday in the La Loche area, where an outbreak was declared on April 17.
  
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• These are the updates to Sask.'s reopening plan a week into phase one

  08-05-2020 23:14
  
  The Saskatchewan government has added more updates to its plan to reopen the economy after starting phase one on Monday.
  
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• Man confined, beaten with a hammer, seriously injured at Saskatoon motel

  08-05-2020 23:09 via thestarphoenix.com
  A 38-year-old man suffered serious injuries when he was beaten with a hammer during what Saskatoon police say was an unlawful confinement at a motel. Read More
  
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• Saskatchewan weather outlook: May 8

  08-05-2020 22:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  The seven-day Saskatchewan weather forecast with Global’s Peter Quinlan for Friday, May 8.
  
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• Coronavirus: Over 4,600 businesses apply for Saskatchewan’s emergency grant program

  08-05-2020 22:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  The program is being extended meaning businesses that qualify will automatically receive a second payment after May 19.
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders draft pick Kian Schaffer-Baker hoping to catch on in the pros

  08-05-2020 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan Roughriders draft pick Kian Schaffer-Baker is expecting big things from himself at the CFL level.
  
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• Sask. trapper finds refuge on the land

  08-05-2020 22:26 via thestarphoenix.com
  For almost two months, Barry Carriere and his four young children have found refuge from the pandemic on a secluded trapline nestled in the north of Saskatchewan. Read More
  
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• 64 laser pointer attacks on aircraft recorded in Sask. since 2013

  08-05-2020 22:23 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  This week's laser pointer attack on a Saskatoon police aircraft appears to be the first such incident in Saskatchewan reported this year — but there hasn't been a year with no attacks since 2013. Read More
  
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• Saskatoon garden blogger offers five tips for gardeners

  08-05-2020 22:18 via thestarphoenix.com
  As the weather warms up, people are starting to break out their gardening tools and get to work. Whether you're planting your first garden or your 50th, Saskatoon-based garden blogger Kristen Raney from Shifting Roots has some advice on how to get started. Read More
  
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• 12 of province's 13 new cases of COVID-19 in La Loche, Sask.

  08-05-2020 22:11
  
  As of Friday, the province said there were 13 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 12 of the new cases found in La Loche.
  
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• 12 new coronavirus cases reported in La Loche area, 544 total cases in Saskatchewan

  08-05-2020 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  There are 203 active coronavirus cases in Saskatchewan, with nearly three-quarters of those in the far north.
  
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• Living life after surviving COVID-19 and weeks on a ventilator

  08-05-2020 21:45
  
  The long-term effects COVID-19 are still unknown. W5's Avery Haines investigates what happens to someone after spending weeks on a ventilator and beating the disease.
  
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• Federal COVID-19 Indigenous business relief still leaves 'critical gaps,' says financial organization

  08-05-2020 21:38 via cbc.ca
  
  A First Nations financial organization in the Atlantic region is voicing concern over the exclusion of band-owned, non-taxable businesses in federal financial relief programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Folkfest latest summer festival halted by COVID-19 in Saskatoon

  08-05-2020 21:33 via thestarphoenix.com
  The COVID-19 pandemic has taken down another Saskatoon summer event. Folkfest has announced an "indefinite postponement" due to the virus. Read More
  
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• Can the blood of a llama named 'Winter' be used to protect against coronavirus?

  08-05-2020 21:27
  
  What may be the latest hope in the hunt to develop a treatment for COVID-19 comes from an unusual source – a furry, four-year-old llama named 'Winter' that is living on a farm in the Belgium countryside.
  
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• Construction starts on new Meadow Lake long-term care facility

  08-05-2020 21:12
  
  The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has awarded the tender for the new $36.6 million, 72-bed long-term care facility to Binder Construction of Edmonton.
  
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• SHA considering First Nations, Métis data-sharing for COVID-19 cases

  08-05-2020 21:11 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The Saskatchewan Health Authority is in the "early stages" of creating a system to collect data on how COVID-19 is affecting First Nations and Métis people in the province, a step leaders and academics say is important to managing the virus' spread in those communities. Read More
  
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• SGI resuming road tests — but only for health-care and agriculture workers

  08-05-2020 20:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  After SGI suspended road tests in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, anyone but essential workers will have to wait a little longer.
  
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• 'The need to do more': Province unveils Saskatchewan suicide prevention plan

  08-05-2020 20:46 via thestarphoenix.com
  A long-awaited suicide prevention plan is aiming to reduce risk factors associated with suicide in Saskatchewan, the province says. Read More
  
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• 'The need to do more': Province unveils Sask. suicide prevention plan

  08-05-2020 20:45 via thestarphoenix.com
  A long-awaited suicide prevention plan is aiming to reduce risk factors associated with suicide in Saskatchewan, the province says. Read More
  
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• RCMP respond after reports of multiple fires set on Sask. First Nation

  08-05-2020 19:57 via thestarphoenix.com
  RCMP say a series of grass fires on a First Nation near the  Battlefords appears to have been deliberately set. Read More
  
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• Aide to U.S. Vice-President Pence tests positive for coronavirus

  08-05-2020 19:52
  
  U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence's press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House said Friday, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week.
  
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• Saskatoon ready to “Cheer for Heroes” this weekend - News Talk 650 CKOM

  08-05-2020 19:40 via ckom.com
  
  Saskatoon ready to “Cheer for Heroes” this weekend  News Talk 650 CKOM
  
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• Serious collision reported on highway near Meadow Lake

  08-05-2020 19:26 via thestarphoenix.com
  RCMP have reported a serious collision on a highway near Meadow Lake, Sask. Read More
  
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• Northern Sask. COVID-19 travel ban put summer camps at risk, manager says

  08-05-2020 19:24
  
  If public health restrictions don’t change, youth camps will be cancelled and registration fees will be refunded, said Bernie Vossen, manager of John Bosco Wilderness Camp.
  
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• 'We all recognize the need to do more': Sask. government releases suicide prevention plan

  08-05-2020 19:15
  
  The strategy comes a little more than six months after a series of suicides prompted a state of emergency declaration in the northern community of Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation.
  
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• 'Honour their legacy': Sask. premier, lieutenant-governor mark 75th anniversary of VE Day

  08-05-2020 19:15 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  The ceremony was different than past events honouring soldiers — but the spirit remained the same. Saskatchewan's premier and lieutenant-governor quickly and quietly gathered Friday in Regina to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day ... Read More
  
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• Coronavirus outbreak at Prince Albert’s Victoria Hospital declared over

  08-05-2020 18:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  The SHA declared the coronavirus outbreak at Victoria Hospital over after no further cases were discovered in either patients or health-care workers during the exposure period.
  
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• Saskatoon police looking for three suspects after two men allegedly forcibly confined, assaulted - CBC.ca

  08-05-2020 18:49 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatoon police looking for three suspects after two men allegedly forcibly confined, assaulted  CBC.ca
  
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• Saskatoon police looking for three suspects after two men allegedly forcibly confined, assaulted

  08-05-2020 18:49 via cbc.ca
  
  Police say the two men, ages 38 and 45, were confined and assaulted in a motel in the 600 block of Idylwyld Drive on Tuesday between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. CST.
  
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• Project Pandemic: See how COVID-19 is affecting Saskatchewan

  08-05-2020 18:48 via thestarphoenix.com
  Project Pandemic is a collaborative investigation that aims to unite efforts by journalists and journalism students at Canadian news organizations and universities to report on COVID-19. The goal is to build upon data gathered by government health authorities and citizens’ self-reported information on infections compiled by Flatten.ca to track the impacts of COVID-19 in real time on vulnerable populations including essential service workers, the homeless, rural and remote communities, Indi
  
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• Saskatchewan loses nearly 53K jobs from March to April: Statistics Canada

  08-05-2020 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Between March and April, Statistics Canada says 52,900 jobs were lost in Saskatchewan due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Wage subsidy program will be extended past June, says Trudeau

  08-05-2020 18:35 via cbc.ca
  
  The federal government's emergency wage subsidy program, which is meant to help employers keep workers on the payroll, will be extended beyond its initial early June endpoint.
  
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• Zoey Roy first Indigenous author to participate in NAC's #CanadaPerforms

  08-05-2020 18:28 via cbc.ca
  
  Last month, the National Arts Centre launched #CanadaPerforms, an initiative that pays musicians and writers to perform from their living rooms. Poet Zoey Roy gave an intimate performance from her living room in Kingston. 
  
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• SGI to restart road tests for people working in agriculture and health care

  08-05-2020 18:22
  
  Road tests will be available for people working in agriculture and health care starting next week, according to Saskatchewan Government Insurance.
  
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• Outbreak at Prince Albert hospital declared over after virus contained to lone patient

  08-05-2020 18:18 via cbc.ca
  
  Another outbreak, at Lloydminster Hospital, has been deemed stable enough to allow the community to belatedly join the Re-open Saskatchewan plan.
  
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• Health authority declares Prince Albert. hospital COVID-19 outbreak over

  08-05-2020 18:17
  
  The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has ended its outbreak declaration at Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert.
  
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• Sask. small care home operators ask for clarity, consultation

  08-05-2020 18:09 via cbc.ca
  
  Michell Jesse said the personal care home operators she represents have been frustrated trying to keep up with the government's direction during an already stressful time.
  
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• Letter of the Day: We all need to work together right now

  08-05-2020 18:00 via thestarphoenix.com
  
  Like all Canadians, I have been impressed by the dedication of health care professionals, as well as the thousands of other workers who, at some personal risk, have continued to carry out essential services. Read More
  
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• La Loche grocery store closes, far north passes Saskatoon region for most Sask. COVID-19 cases

  08-05-2020 17:37 via thestarphoenix.com
  The COVID-19 outbreak in the remote village of La Loche pushed total cases in the sparsely populated northern half of Saskatchewan past that of the region that includes its largest city. Read More
  
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• Update - Traffic Restrictions Lifted - Avenue I North And 22nd Street West

  08-05-2020 17:31 via saskatoonpolice.ca
  
  Traffic restrictions have been lifted following the execution of a search warrant at a residence in the 100 block of Avenue I North this morning.Members of the Guns & Gangs Unit remain on scene to complete the search warrant. Several people from inside the residence were taken into custody. There is no information about charges at this time and the investigation is continuing. 
  
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• Sask. lost 53,000 jobs in April: Statistics Canada

  08-05-2020 17:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatchewan's unemployment rate is way up. It hit 11.3 per cent in April, according to Statistics Canada.
  
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• Sask. economy has hopefully 'bottomed out' after losing 53,000 jobs in April, says economist

  08-05-2020 17:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Saskatchewan's unemployment rate soared in April due to the COVID-19 economic shutdown but an economist says it's not likely to get much worse.
  
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