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By Jason Warick, CBC Saskatchewan Daniel Fontaine hadn't slept in three days, his mania and paranoia spiraling ever faster as he paced around his parents' Saskatoon home. "I felt everyone was watching me. I was convinced my phone, my computer were spying on me. I thought someone was coming to hurt my family," Fontaine, 34, said of the incident, which happened last month.…

REGINA — The police chief in Regina says a policy shift is coming that will see more officers carrying the life-saving antidote naloxone Evan Bray says all front-line officers are to be equipped next year with naloxone, which can reverse or block the effects of an opioid overdose. Bray says the force initially only provided Narcan, the nasal spray version of naloxone, to people in…

Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory says the memo speaks to a greater issue of practitioners being "afraid to speak out." The government will move Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) employees to the list of those protected by provincial whistleblower law following the leak of a memorandum raising concerns about the organization’s transparency. Health…

REGINA -- The Bundle of Joy campaign is back for another year, to help local families in need with help from Carmichael Outreach. Donations of baby formula, wipes and diapers are being accepted at the Northgate Mall. “We’re on the front lines and we see if families don’t have what they need to raise healthy children and that’s why being part of this great program is…

On Remembrance Day, we honour the men and women who served and sacrificed so much, leaving their families, friends and communities, to fight for our freedom – for a better life for all of us.  Nurses were the first women in the Canadian military.  It was in 1885 when Canada’s Nursing Sisters first took to the field, providing care to the Canadian troops sent to the…