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The Saskatchewan NDP is warning that hospitals are unprepared for an expected rise in COVID-19 admissions as they already grapple with increased bed occupancy. On Tuesday, the NDP cited a Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) Daily Rounds memo from the previous day. The document warned that “bed occupancy continues to increase across the province with a concentration in Saskatoon.”It…

A public health doctor is warning that Saskatchewan’s leaders aren’t taking the latest surge in COVID-19 cases seriously enough, and have only a short window to get it under control. “The reality is that if you don’t take the right measures, the biology, the science of how the infectious disease spreads will catch up to you in two or three weeks time, and the government…

Recently, the city of Calgary made it mandatory for all residents to wear masks when outside of their house. This comes just after the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses requested the government of Saskatchewan do the same thing to help slow the spread of COVID 19. Mayor Fraser Tolmie addressed the issue, saying that right now there is no talk of making masks mandatory in Moose Jaw, but he's…

Yesterday some concerning allegations relating to abuse and gender-based violence were made against the Executive Director of Canadian Roots Exchange (CRE) on Twitter. Today, SUN learned that CRE has placed their Executive Director, Max Fineday, on administrative leave pending an investigation in response to these allegations. Details of the preliminary steps CRE have taken can be viewed here:…

As the number of health care workers infected with COVID-19 continues to climb, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions is calling on Canada’s premiers to urgently implement legislation granting them fast access to workers’ compensation benefits, without having to prove their illness was contracted on the job. The leaders of eight provincial nurses’ unions have today written to…