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Saskatoon’s mayor delivered a statement in the daily newspaper on a Thursday, announcing a dozen new pandemic cases in the city to bring the total to 32. Let’s break that sentence down: The mayor was Alexander M. Young, the newspaper was The Saskatoon Daily Star, the Thursday was Oct. 17, 1918 and the pandemic was the Spanish Flu. A century later, we’re getting no specific…

TORONTO -- A new study finds the proportion of Canadian COVID-19 deaths that have occurred in long-term care facilities is about twice the average of rates from other developed nations. The analysis released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information provides a damning snapshot of senior care as of May 25, when LTC residents made up 81 per cent of all reported COVID-19 deaths in…

New numbers released by the Saskatchewan government on Thursday show 22 per cent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 prior to June 21 did not have symptoms. The number was included in a slide show of data presented by the province's chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab at a news conference. Of the 748 cases recorded by the province during the data period, 167 of them were…

Sandra Barker-Schmidt and her husband, Dean Schmidt, are grappling with a difficult question this fall: Should they send their daughter ​​Kidist to the same school where her older brother endured seemingly endless racist taunts before he died? It's where most of Kidist's friends will go, and switching schools would mean about a 45-minute commute to Regina every day.…

The NDP added a new report that people were “burning their butts” from hot toilet water at Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford to its list of infrastructure grievances about the ailing facility. The government responded that the plumbing error occurred about a year and a half ago. It said the water was warm and no one was injured. On Wednesday, Opposition Leader Ryan Meili…