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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…

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When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and began losing her ability to care for herself, Audrey Nerbas quit her job to take care of her mother full time. For seven years Nerbas spent day and night looking after her mother, until in 2011 they both realized they could not continue in that way. Nerbas began looking into long-term care homes. Her mother was assessed in May of…