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The Saskatchewan Health Authority's most dire model for COVID-19 in the province truly is a worst-case scenario for Premier Scott Moe.In that model, Saskatchewan could lose more than 8,000 residents t...

Cumberland NDP MLA Doyle Vermette is undecided on whether or not checkpoints to assess traffic would be appropriate in La Ronge. "I'm not saying I'm against it or totally for it, I'm saying let's find...

D.J. Smith noticed something when his Ottawa Senators arrived in northern California last month. There weren't many people around. "At that point, no one knew what we know now," the team's r...

OTTAWA - First Nations and Metis leaders say they need more from Ottawa to combat COVID-19 in their communities, including money, assistance with security and help acquiring protec...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories is creating a squad of public health officers to enforce orders around the COVID-19 epidemic. N.W.T.'s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kami Kandol...

A mother-daughter duo from La Ronge have put their sewing skills to work making face masks for essential workers and the general public. Anne-Marie Jakeway and her mother Joan Kidd began making the ma...

OTTAWA - Canada's energy minister will speak to his U.S. and Mexican counterparts Thursday in a bid to generate a common front ahead of talks by the world's biggest economies aimed at ending the ...

Canada's politicians have been urging the public to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, but a look at federal and provincial leaders suggests not all of them are following their own a...

CALGARY - A Calgary man whose wife died of COVID-19 last month says the two of them were expecting 2020 to be the best year of their lives. But things changed quickly in mid-March when Deb Diemer...

OTTAWA - Researchers are calling for more detailed data on who is getting and dying from COVID-19, to find out if specific minority or socioeconomic groups are unduly impacted. The Unit...