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New COVID-19 cases in Sask.pop to 200, with three deaths

New COVID-19 cases in Sask.pop to 200, with three deaths

An additional 8,766 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 133,828. To date, this is the highest one-day total for vaccine delivery in the province.

COVID-19 and the Day the Music Died

Charqui, in the trendy Kitsilano area of Vancouver, is a cultural conduit where music and food from all corners of the world are served up in uncompromising originality to reflect the diversity of the city.

Why some aren’t so sure farms are key to carbon offset plans

Canadian fields, orchards, and ranches might soon be growing a new crop: Carbon credits.
Gardener's Notebook: So what is Irish moss?

Gardener's Notebook: So what is Irish moss?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We quite often see pictures of gardens with a lush green groundcover, surrounding statuary and looking very exotic, and the photo’s caption often says that the plant in question is “Irish moss”.
Artist with Yorkton roots pours himself into works

Artist with Yorkton roots pours himself into works

They might remind of the boiling lava of an active volcano. Or, maybe it’s the moment of the ‘big bang’ at the beginning of the cosmos.
Book reflects of career of sport and science started in Yorkton

Book reflects of career of sport and science started in Yorkton

Leslie Kozak was a pretty good hockey player in his younger days. Although born in Dauphin his family was from Yorkton. “My mother returned to Yorkton with my brother, Garry, and me in 1943 when I was about three-years-old.
Pasqua First Nation seeks answers on lake's purple-blue discoloration

Pasqua First Nation seeks answers on lake's purple-blue discoloration

Pasqua First Nation chief Todd Peigan wants to know what’s in — and on — the water at Pasqua Lake. Ice fishers and eventually the Water Security Agency (WSA) last week found oddly discoloured, purplish blue water on top of and within the lake’s ice.
Busted! SGI’s top five insurance fraud cases

Busted! SGI’s top five insurance fraud cases

SGI’s Special Investigation Unit caught some folks in a lie last year
Ducks Unlimited Canada endowed chair at USask the first of its kind in the country

Ducks Unlimited Canada endowed chair at USask the first of its kind in the country

SASKATOON – A rising star in conservation science has been hired as the Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) Endowed Chair in Wetland and Waterfowl Conservation at the University of Saskatchewan (USask).
NDP press for rapid testing in schools, minister responds

NDP press for rapid testing in schools, minister responds

Regina, Saskatoon – The Official Opposition New Democratic Party wants to see rapid-testing for COVDI-19 implemented in schools, pointing out that it hasn’t happened yet.
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