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Air quality advisories continue in areas of Saskatchewan
Air quality advisories remained in place Monday for some areas of Saskatchewan -- and the advisories likely will continue for a few days. Environment Canada initially issued the advisories for the are...
Oct 02, 2021 The Bell fire north of Hudson Bay. (Prince Albert Grand Council/Submitted)
Landmark Cinemas hits the ground running with vaccine passport system in Sask.
The proof-of-vaccination system is coming to a theatre near you in Saskatchewan, but it's not a new release for Landmark Cinemas. As of Friday, people are required to display their vaccine status to a...
Oct 02, 2021
Baby, kidnapping suspect found sleeping in car near Buffalo Narrows
It appears a baby may have slept through a scary incident Thursday near Buffalo Narrows. According to the RCMP, officers got a call just before 1:30 a.m., about a distressed woman. She told officers a...
Oct 01, 2021
Three more charged in death of man from Big River First Nation
Three more people have been charged in connection with the death of a man from the Big River First Nation in 2020. Richard Netmaker, 36, was reportedly abducted from his home on Jan. 6, 2020, and assa...
Oct 01, 2021
Reckless driving leads to many charges against Moosomin man
A 44-year-old Moosomin man is facing multiple charges after a rampage through the town Wednesday night. According to the RCMP, officers got multiple calls just after 9 p.m., about a truck being driven...
Oct 01, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Oct. 1: Sask. reports 5 deaths, 313 hospitalizations
Five more Saskatchewan residents have died as a result of COVID-19, increasing the province's death toll due to the virus to 700 since the pandemic started. The deaths reported Friday comprised three ...
Oct 01, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
NDP's First Nations and Metis Relations critic sees West Lawn as place for learning
In recent years, the West Lawn in Wascana Park outside the Legislative Building has been used as a base where Indigenous activists made their calls for justice. On the country's first National Day for...
Oct 01, 2021 Betty Nippi-Albright, the NDP critic for First Nations and Metis Relations, speaking in the West Lawn of Wascana Park on Sept. 30. To her right is Janet Bugler, an Elder from Red Pheasant Cree Nation and descendant of Chief Piapot. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME)
With 1 in 5 employees unvaccinated, SHA launches proof-of-vaccination policy
The Saskatchewan Health Authority says 20 per cent of health-care workers in the province haven't been vaccinated against COVID-19. That's one of the reasons the SHA launched its proof-of-vaccination ...
Oct 01, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Biggest concern among businesses is abuse of employees, says Hospitality Saskatchewan
It's the first workday for the hospitality sector under Saskatchewan's new proof-of-vaccination requirements. As of Friday, a number of businesses must check customers for proof of vaccination or a ne...
Oct 01, 2021 "That's why it's called the hospitality industry. We need those smiling faces in the right places," said Jim Bence, President and CEO of Hospitality Saskatchewan. (980 CJME file photo)
RCMP seeking person of interest after officer’s home shot at
The RCMP is investigating a shooting incident outside the home of one its officers in northern Saskatchewan. The Mounties received a report Monday that a gun had been fired several times outside an of...
Oct 01, 2021
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Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...