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Tuesday COVID-19 update: potentially first dose to everyone in SK by end of June

Tuesday COVID-19 update: potentially first dose to everyone in SK by end of June

Here are highlights from this week’s latest COVID-19 update from Regina from Premier Scott Moe and Dr. Saqib Shahab, chief medical health officer for Saskatchewan.
Keep the lights on at The Lighthouse

Keep the lights on at The Lighthouse

Dear Editor In the early days of the provincial election campaign in 2016, the Saskatchewan government made national headlines for sending two young, homeless, Indigenous men out of North Battleford on one-way bus tickets to Vancouver.
Giving and possessing

Giving and possessing

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading the Old Testament account of the journeys of God’s children as they made their way from captivity in Egypt, across the years of their trek through the Red Sea, enemy territory and seemingly endless desert.
March 2 COVID-19 update: All long-term care homes have received first doses

March 2 COVID-19 update: All long-term care homes have received first doses

One hundred per cent (100) per cent of long-term care homes across Saskatchewan have now received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine with ninety-one (91) per cent of residents choosing to receive the vaccine.
Snow storm preferable to sand equivalent

Snow storm preferable to sand equivalent

Mayfair News
Two arrested in P.A. drug raid appear in court; one released, one remanded in custody

Two arrested in P.A. drug raid appear in court; one released, one remanded in custody

Two men arrested after police raided a Prince Albert home where they seized drugs and weapons made court appearances. One was released while the other was remanded in custody.
Cochin ice situation unprecedented: Mayor

Cochin ice situation unprecedented: Mayor

It is an unprecedented situation at Jackfish Lake. The Resort Village of Cochin has seen extensive damage due to ice from the lake being pushed up onto the shoreline and into people’s property across the village.
Man accused of holding girl captive at remote cabin chooses trial by judge and jury

Man accused of holding girl captive at remote cabin chooses trial by judge and jury

A man accused of holding a girl against her will at a remote northern Saskatchewan cabin wants to be tried in Court of Queen’s Bench by judge and jury.
History re-imagined

History re-imagined

Letter to the Editor
Spring breakup begins now, as Highways removes winter weights in southern Sask.

Spring breakup begins now, as Highways removes winter weights in southern Sask.

Usually one can bank on spring breakup being announced around March 15, give or take, but with warm weather in the forecast for southern Saskatchewan, the Ministry of Highways announced on March 1 that winter weights were coming off for highways in s
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