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Nine new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan
The government has announced nine new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan.According to a media release, as of March 27, 2020 the new confirmed cases brings the provincial total to 104.Six individuals are h...
Mar 27, 2020 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Lisa Schick/CKOM News Staff)
Tory leadership candidates asked to stop calls, fundraising as vote postponed
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidates are being asked to stop fundraising and making calls to party members following a decision to suspend the race. But at least one candidate says it is unfair...
Mar 27, 2020
Trudeau seeking U.S. decision on troops at border; calls possibility a mistake
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it would be a mistake for the United States to position troops near the Canadian border. Trudeau says today he's told that to the T...
Mar 27, 2020
Kinistin Salteaux Nation implements COVID-19 measures
Members of the Kinistin Salteaux Nation are taking many precautionary measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19.There are three monitoring checks at the points of entry into the community.In a letter ...
Mar 27, 2020 (Facebook/Kinistin Salteaux Nation Information)
Rural doctors and mayors ask city-dwellers to stay home and not tax system
Rural health-care providers and small-town politicians are pleading with snowbirds and city-dwellers to stay at their primary homes during the COVID-19 pandemic rather than self-isolating in more remo...
Mar 27, 2020
Trump accuses GM of overpromising on breathing machines
DETROIT - President Donald Trump attacked General Motors Friday, alleging that the company promised to build thousands more breathing machines than it can deliver for coronavirus patients and that it ...
Mar 27, 2020
COVID-19 closures: It's as if Ottawa has fallen off the electricity grid
TORONTO - It's as if the COVID-19 epidemic had tripped a circuit breaker, shutting off all power to a city the size of Ottawa. Virus-induced restrictions that have shut down large swaths of normal com...
Mar 27, 2020
A sunny, warm start to the weekend to give way to cooler conditions
The province can expect some beautiful weather over the next couple of days.Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Terri Lang told northeastNOW sunshine and above seasonal temperatures wi...
Mar 27, 2020 Expect a lot more melting over the next two days. (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)
Commissioner Randy Ambrosie says CFL draft still on for April 30
TORONTO - CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says the league's draft remains on schedule - at least for now. Ambrosie addressed the status of the April 30 draft during a question-and-...
Mar 27, 2020
Toronto FC players busy behind closed doors thanks to some quick thinking
TORONTO - It's been 20-plus years since Jim Liston used to train Greg Vanney and Dan Calichman in a small space in Pasadena, Calif. "We had very little space," Liston recalled. "About 2,000 squar...
Mar 27, 2020