'Stand for my community': Young women respond to mental health crisis in northern Sask.
"There's going to be a light at the end of tunnel, though, and I this is just the beginning of that," Kaleigh Aramenko said.
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"There's going to be a light at the end of tunnel, though, and I this is just the beginning of that," Kaleigh Aramenko said.
Article content WEYBURN — Slim and close-shaven with deep-set green eyes that reflect a struggle beyond his years, the middle-aged man describes the “sickness” that made him leave his home and head 90 minutes north to Regina. It was the day after Christmas. He went to the inner city, to find the fentanyl needed to get, in his words, “un-sick.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Overdose Spiral: 'It's a death sentence,' says fentanyl user working to go clean Back to video “If there’s nothing around Weyburn, we have to resort to gett...
Article content WEYBURN — The first month of the new year didn’t leave Weyburn police members with much to celebrate; just a hard reminder of that city’s drug overdose issues. Three men overdosed on fentanyl in 36 hours. Two died. One was revived with a naloxone shot, but he didn’t want any other help. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Overdose Spiral: 'Not just a big city thing,' say police as drug ODs on rise in Weyburn Back to video Chief Jamie Blunden says those mid-month drug calls were small glimpses of a larger, glaring issue in ...
In Part 1 of the three-part series, Overdose Spiral, a Swift Current mom shares her devastating story of loss in the province's OD crisis.
As more cases of COVID-19 variants surface across Canada, Premier Scott Moe is urging Saskatchewan residents to avoid interprovincial travel and to get tested immediately after arriving home if they have to leave for essential reasons. “Our strong recommendation against out-of-province travel is due to the unnecessary risk that you put yourself in and your family in to exposure of COVID-19 variants in other areas of Canada,” Moe told reporters...