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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Latest COVID update Dec. 20: Three deaths, 226 new cases, 105 recoveries
Another three people in Saskatchewan have died with COVID. In a news release Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported that three people from the Regina area, two of whom were 80 or older and one who wa...
Dec 20, 2020
Calgary outdoor rink arrest caught on video, man from well-known hockey family identifies as suspect
Questions are being raised over a Saturday viral video, showing a man being arrested at a Calgary outdoor rink. The man can be seen, at times, skating away from two female police officers, questioning...
Dec 20, 2020
Man in hospital after being hit with vehicle on Ring Road
A man is in stable condition after being hit by a vehicle on Ring Road. In a news release, police said it happened just after 1 a.m Saturday. He was crossing the road near Wascana Parkway, when he was...
Dec 20, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US preparing to ship out
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., a desperately needed boost to efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under c...
Dec 20, 2020
Latest COVID update Dec. 19: 8 deaths, 252 new cases, 218 recoveries
Eight more people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Saskatchewan have died. The Regina region had three deaths and Saskatoon area had two, with two people in the 70-to-79 age range in ...
Dec 19, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Saskatoon bingo hall left confused by restrictions
A Saskatoon bingo hall says the measures ordering bingo halls in Saskatchewan to close on Saturday doesn’t change much and is left confused by the way the province is restricting the industry. L...
Dec 19, 2020
FSIN calls out government for COVID measure that closes casinos
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is not impressed with one of the Saskatchewan government’s new COVID-19 measures. On Saturday at 12:01 a.m., all casinos and bingo halls in ...
Dec 18, 2020
SaskPower pens chapter for feds' SMR action plan
The federal government unveiled its Small Modular Reactor Action Plan on Friday, throwing its weight behind efforts to develop nuclear power technology. The plan, which outlines the efforts to deploy ...
Dec 18, 2020
Latest COVID update Dec. 18: 2 deaths, 245 new cases, 485 recoveries
Two more residents of the Regina area have died after contracting COVID-19. In its daily update, the province says a person in the 70-to-79 age range and another in the 80-and-over range have d...
Dec 18, 2020
Regina woman offers first-hand look at getting COVID vaccine
What is it like to get a COVID-19 vaccine? One Regina woman thinks it's fairly similar to getting any other kind of vaccine. Jill Straker works at the drive-through COVID testing site on the grounds o...
Dec 18, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
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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
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