Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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May 3 Show Segments
8:30 – According to numbers from SGI, last year police issued 523 administrative license suspensions to drivers who failed a roadside test due to drug impairment. That's a huge increase from the...
May 03, 2022
Riders no longer require proof of vax; single-game tickets on sale Tuesday
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have dropped their COVID-19 vaccination requirement for fans for the 2022 CFL season. In a media release Monday about ticket sales, the Roughriders revealed fans won't nee...
May 02, 2022
Six new ICU beds in operation in Saskatchewan hospitals
Six new intensive care unit beds have opened in Saskatchewan, with five more to be added before the year is out. The provincial government said in its March budget it would be spending $12.5 million t...
May 02, 2022 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Archbishop nearly ripped up apology, wanted to speak 'more directly from the heart'
A lot of hurt was shared this weekend as the head of the Anglican Church met with residential school survivors in Saskatchewan. Andrew Hoskin is the archdeacon and Anglican diocesan administrator in S...
May 02, 2022 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev. Justin Welby (centre), stands among James Smith Cree Nation dignitaries during a hymn at the beginning of Saturday's event. (Jeff D'Andrea/paNOW Staff)
Thousands celebrate end of Ramadan at Prairieland Park
Thousands of Muslim worshippers gathered at Prairieland Park on Monday morning to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Eid-al-Fitr, otherwise known as the “festival of breaking the fast,” is a ce...
May 02, 2022
Regina's Mayfair Crescent claims title as Saskatchewan's worst road
Regina's Mayfair Crescent is the big winner (?). The street in south Regina was voted No. 1 in Saskatchewan in CAA's annual Worst Roads campaign. A stretch of Highway 4 near the village of Dorintosh w...
May 02, 2022 A stretch of Mayfair Crescent, voted the worst road in Saskatchewan in a CAA poll. (980 CJME)
Revamped TV, film production grant program starts rolling in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan government has made additional changes to get more lights, cameras and action in the province's TV and film industry. In the March budget, the government announced an $8-million incre...
May 02, 2022 (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
Saskatchewan still dealing with 133 long-term missing persons cases
Project HOME -- "Help Our Missing Emerge" -- has been launched in Saskatchewan in hopes of getting missing persons back to their loved ones. Saskatchewan Missing Persons Week runs through Saturday in ...
May 02, 2022 (RCMP/Submitted)
SaskTel employee fired after improper use of company credit card
Using a company credit card to pay for more than $18,000 in personal items cost a SaskTel employee their job. That was the only loss of public money within government ministries and Crown corporations...
May 02, 2022
Gormley show segments, Monday, May 2, 2022
8:30 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Anglican Church, was in Saskatchewan over the weekend meeting with residential school survivors and leaders at the James Smith Cree ...
May 02, 2022
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...