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• Programming error limited Sask. COVID-19 death, recovery reporting in January

  A programming error limited Saskatchewan COVID-19 death and recovered case data reporting in January, according to the Government of Saskatchewan.

  

• Fundraiser for rally to protest vaccine mandate on truckers exceeds $1.6M

  A movement, called Freedom Convoy 2022, is only a week old but the Alberta organizer of a fundraising campaign to support the event has raised more than $1.6 million for the effort.

  

• Sask. could hit record high COVID-19 hospitalizations in February: government modelling

  Saskatchewan could more than double its record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in February, according to government modelling that was leaked online earlier this week.

• 3 Canadians shot, 2 killed, at Mexican resort: local officials

  Two Canadians were killed and another was injured in a shooting at a Mexican resort near Playa del Carmen on Friday, local officials have reported. The shooting took place at Hotel Xcaret.

• Frozen smoothies recalled over cyanide poisoning concerns, reports of illnesses

  Evive Nutrition Inc. is recalling three batches of its Immunity Super Functional Smoothie due to the presence of raw elderberries, which could cause cyanide poisoning.

• Addictions centre receives approval to relocate to Regina

  The Pine Lodge Addictions Treatment Centre has been approved to relocate to a new home in North Central Regina.

• 'They're not forgotten': Memorial smudge walk honours lives lost to drug overdose and addiction

  Despite the cold, dozens of people gathered in the North Central neighbourhood on Friday afternoon for a smudge walk honouring Saskatchewan lives lost to overdose, addiction and mental illness.

• Northern Sask. residents asked to restrict non-essential travel

  Northern residents are being advised to avoid all non-essential travel out of the Northern Saskatchewan Administrative District until the end of February to slow the spread of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Manitoba border deaths may be part of larger human smuggling operation: documents

  U.S. agents have launched an investigation into a larger human smuggling operation after a family of four froze to death while attempting to cross into the United States from Canada near Emerson, Man. during a blizzard.

• Sask. government contingency plan could redeploy provincial employees to healthcare system

  The provincial government is working on a contingency plan to redeploy civil servants into the healthcare system, as Omicron continues to spread.

• Omicron wave may have peaked, but ICU numbers still rising steeply, says Tam

  The fifth and latest COVID-19 wave driven by the Omicron variant may have reached its peak, says Canada’s top public health official, but hospitalizations and intensive care admissions, which lag behind infections, are still climbing.

• Riders resign veteran DB Mike Edem

  Defensive back Mike Edem has signed a contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders