Show Segments

8:30 – More than 90% of members of the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation voted in favour of sanctions this month, as their contract negotiations with the province continue. In addition to salary concerns, the main sticking point is class size and composition, which the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation wants to see included in the new contract. The STF met with Education Minister Gordon Wyant on Tuesday, and despite the sanctions mandate both sides said the talks were positive and productive. Wyant joins Gormley to discuss the meeting and the next steps as the province and teachers’ union work towards an agreement.

LIVE: Gordon Wyant, Saskatchewan education minister and deputy premier.

9:00 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session

10:00 – The federal government is planning to change the Criminal Code to expand access to medical assistance in dying (MAiD). The changes repeal the criteria requiring a reasonable foreseeability of natural death and put in new safeguards for those requesting an assisted death whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. Dr. Harvey Schipper, health policy expert with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, worries Canada is moving too fast when it comes to MAiD, and says we should reject calls to expand the practice “since we do not yet understand what we are dealing with.” Schipper says we are “moving too quickly, without evidence or understood experience, down a pathway of immense societal consequence.” Schipper joins Gormley to discuss MAiD, and the proposed changes currently before the House of Commons.

LIVE: Dr. Harvey Schipper, health policy expert with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

11:00 – It’s time for Saskatchewan’s Smartest Radio Listener! Powered by Urban Cellars. Your chance for fame, acclaim and to prove just how smart you are. Not only do you get bragging rights, you’ll win a $50 gift card for Urban Cellars.

12:00 – A small company at Innovation Place at the U of S has designed an artificial intelligence that can sample grain going in or out of a bin at harvest in real time. Farmers typically use a scoop on a stick to get a pail of grain as a sample for their buyer, but they’re often given a lower price due to the risk of using a single sample to represent thousands of bushels. Former Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine sits on the U of S Board of Governors, and he’s working to promote the VeriGrain system, saying it could reduce losses to producers across Saskatchewan and elsewhere in the world. Devine joins Gormley to discuss VeriGrain and why he thinks it could revolutionize grain sampling.

LIVE: Dr. Grant Devine, U of S Board of Governors Member and former professor.