Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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Sask. to lift COVID measures by end of February; proof of vax to end Monday
Saskatchewan is set to remove its COVID-related public health measures in the coming days, with proof of vaccination or a negative test going first. Other public health measures - including masking in...
Feb 08, 2022 Premier Scott Moe (980 CJME file photo)
Canada takes down U.S. in Olympic women's hockey showdown
Canada's women's hockey team is going into the playoffs at the Beijing Winter Olympics on an emotional high. The Canadians downed their arch-rivals from the United States 4-2 late Monday night to fini...
Feb 08, 2022 Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin scores on U.S. goalie Maddie Rooney on a penalty shot during second-period women's hockey action at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing on Feb. 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Feb. 8 Show Segments
8:30 – Gas prices are on the rise across the country and while Saskatchewan is on the low end, gas still hit $1.48 per litre in both Saskatoon and Regina on Friday. According to GasBuddy.com, th...
Feb 08, 2022
Regina city manager Chris Holden dismissed by city council
Regina city council dismissed city manager Chris Holden on Monday. "I think with some of the major initiatives that we have underway, it's a strategic decision to bring in a new city manager while som...
Feb 07, 2022 Former Regina city manager Chris Holden. (980 CJME file photo)
Highlight-reel goal in Calgary helps Bedard earn WHL honour
A goal many people are saying is the best of the 2021-22 hockey season to date cemented Connor Bedard's status as WHL player of the week. The Regina Pats centre was honoured Monday after recording fou...
Feb 07, 2022 Regina Pats forward Connor Bedard. (File photo courtesy of Keith Hershmiller Photography)
Don McMorris beaming with pride at son's podium joy
The Olympic experience is different for the McMorris family this time around. Usually members of the family are at the bottom of the slope filled with nerves as Canadian snowboarding star Mark McMorri...
Feb 07, 2022 Canada's Mark McMorris displays his bronze medal during the medal ceremony for men's snowboard slopestyle at the Beijing Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 7, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Roughriders release Woodard for opportunity in NFL
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have released one of their leading sack artists so he can try his luck in the NFL. The CFL team announced Monday it had let defensive end Jonathan Woodard out of his contr...
Feb 07, 2022 Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive end Jonathan Woodard (99). (File photo courtesy of Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Weekend protest at Legislative Building leads to 32 parking, traffic tickets
The Regina Police Service says 32 tickets were issued and one vehicle was towed during the weekend protests on Albert Street in front of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building. In a media release Monda...
Feb 07, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
SMA president again calls for COVID health measures to remain in place
The president of the Saskatchewan Medical Association is continuing his call for a delay in the removal of COVID-related public health measures in the province. In an op-ed sent to media outlets Monda...
Feb 07, 2022
Housing authority employee fired after $91K in rent payments misappropriated
An employee of a regional housing authority in Beauval was fired after an investigation into the misappropriation of nearly $91,000 in rent payments. That was the only public loss included in the thir...
Feb 07, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
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Murray Wood: The Art of the CUSMA Deal
Insults, complaints that Canada is so mean, warnings the U.S. doesn't need us. It's all standard operating procedure. Th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 29
On Wednesday, Evan reviews Tuesday's federal spring fiscal update, takes the temperature of the new CFL changes coming i...