“We’re not asking you to storm the beaches at Normandy,” Moe said. “All we’re asking you to do is go in and get a tiny needle in your arm.” Other premiers, like Ontario’s Doug Ford and Manitoba’s Brian Pallister, have been more blunt. Moe has been more guarded. Admittedly, it was a tad puzzling in the context of the overall message from Moe and Saskatchewan Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. Both again said vaccinations in this province have been a huge success story. We are at or in the lead among the provinces (the territories are way ahead of the provinces in general) in the percentage of our population vaccinated.
Health Minister Paul Merriman once again has confirmed the plan for second doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Saskatchewan. Speaking on Gorm.
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Show us some respect
Due to COVID-19, elective surgeries have well over 30,000 people waiting. Before COVID there was about 11,000. I’ve been waiting for two years for a heart procedure and the same amount of time just to see a specialist about another issue.
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My issue isn’t with the wait time, but with the way doctors handle it. Not once have I received any kind of notice from said doctors that I was on their to-do list.
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The end to Saskatchewan’s six-week spring legislative session came about a week too late to spare us all some truly ridiculous talking points that pass for “debates” in the house, none more so than Premier Scott Moe tirelessly accusing Opposition Leader Ryan Meili of running a “never-ending campaign.”
Granted, Moe lifted the notion from the NDP’s post-mortem of its election performance. But the premier’s repeated references to a “never-ending, never-ending campaign … 365 days a year” in response to Meili’s questions about the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t take long to wear thin.
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The end to Saskatchewan’s six-week spring legislative session came about a week too late to spare us all some truly ridiculous talking points that pass for “debates” in the house, none more so than Premier Scott Moe tirelessly accusing Opposition Leader Ryan Meili of running a “never-ending campaign.”
Granted, Moe lifted the notion from the NDP’s post-mortem of its election performance. But the premier’s repeated references to a “never-ending, never-ending campaign … 365 days a year” in response to Meili’s questions about the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t take long to wear thin.