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The federal government is launching an application portal on Monday where Canadians facing unemployment due to the COVID-19 crisis can apply for emergency income support benefits.  Canadians can go to Canada.ca for information about the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). Service Canada and Canada Revenue Agency are jointly administering the CERB. Applicants…

Alberta Health confirmed that the youngest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic was a woman in her 20s from the Edmonton zone. Alberta Health could not provide her exact age. According to data from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Alberta woman in her 20s is the youngest death of COVID-19 in the country at this point in the crisis. As of Sunday morning, three people between the…

SASKATOON -- Child counsellor Brett Williams is entertaining dozens of kids in Warman and Martensville from a safe distance during the COVID-19 pandemic. "He sent me a text message of a ridiculous outfit he had made." Williams friend Wynona Cenaiko said. "Next thing I know he sent me a Kijiji ad, saying that he is going to go to people’s houses and just offer some silliness…

As Saskatchewan worries how long its supply of personal protective equipment will last, Premier Scott Moe called a U.S. move to restrict vital respirator exports to Canada a “betrayal.” Minnesota-based 3M said in a statement Friday that the Trump administration had invoked the Defense Production Act to force it to prioritize U.S. orders by FEMA for N95 respirators over those of…

SASKATOON -- A call from the Canadian Psychologist Association for registered psychologists in Canada to lend their services to health care workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is being welcomed in Saskatchewan.  For Tracy Zambory, president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, the aid is “timely and so needed”.  "We’re smart, we’re highly educated,…