Murray Wood: The 'dumbest trade war in history' is back on
The Wall Street Journal writes that the trade war between Canada and the U.S. just got dumber. Murray Wood says the U.S....
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Latest COVID update Jan. 14: 0 deaths, 312 new cases, 206 in hospital
For the second straight day, Saskatchewan set a new single-day high in total hospitalizations due to COVID-19. In a media release Thursday, the Ministry of Health reported there were 206 people...
Jan 14, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
RCMP looking to fund local family violence programming
The RCMP is hoping to help support local efforts to reduce relationship and family violence. The national police service is launching a new round of support for its Family Violence Initiative Fund, ai...
Jan 14, 2021
Government commits to independent review at Parkside Extendicare
The Saskatchewan government announced Thursday it will ask the provincial ombudsman to review the COVID-19 outbreak at the Parkside Extendicare care home in Regina. The government's announcement came ...
Jan 14, 2021 Parkside Extendicare care home in Regina. (Logan Stein/980 CJME file photo)
80,000 residents still without power after extreme wind
SaskPower has crews out all over the province to get power restored. The extreme winds and snow that hit Saskatchewan on Wednesday night through to Thursday morning caused outages in well over 100 com...
Jan 14, 2021
Chief medical health officer hints at further restrictions
Saskatchewan's chief medical officer of health sent a strong signal that tighter COVID-19 restrictions are coming. Speaking to Gormley on Thursday morning, Dr. Saqib Shahab said the measures put in pl...
Jan 14, 2021
Saskatchewan storm produces weird weather phenomenon
What looks like the remnants of a massive snowball fight can be seen across Saskatchewan today. In the wake of Wednesday night’s storm, people are finding what are called "snow rollers" in their...
Jan 14, 2021
Expecting trouble, DC locks down a week before inauguration
WASHINGTON - All through downtown Washington, the primary sound for several blocks was the beeping of forklifts unloading more fencing. There were no cars or scooters and seemingly no tourists Wednesd...
Jan 14, 2021
Massive winds up to 143 km/h rip through Saskatchewan
It was a case of hold on to more than your hat Wednesday night as a windstorm whipped through the province. Environment Canada confirmed there was a gust of 143 kilometres per hour, a new provincial r...
Jan 14, 2021 Regina's Cornwall Centre was hit by damage from the storm on Jan. 14, 2021 (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
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8:30 – Despite Saskatchewan reaching the highest active COVID-19 case rate in Canada this week, Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab declined to add additional measures and extended our...
Jan 14, 2021
Roughriders sign Moore to contract extension
The man known as Swerve is returning to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The CFL team announced Wednesday it had signed receiver Kyran Moore to a one-year contract extension. He could have become a free ...
Jan 13, 2021 Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Kyran Moore. (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders)
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Technology is advancing faster than we can comprehend
Sarah Mills says an old journalism professor spoke of a multimedia world that was hard to imagine at the time. Not only ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, August 24
On Monday's show, Evan looked at how U.S. tariffs will impact a number of sectors in Saskatchewan, including potash, dai...