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Emergency shelter building to get 2,000 sq. ft. addition before opening
Before Regina's new emergency shelter opens its doors, the City of Regina plans to expand it. A request for proposals issued in early January, looks for a contractor to complete renovations on the bui...
Jan 13, 2025 The City of Regina plans to put a 2,000 sq. ft. addition onto the building to get it up to the promised capacity. (CJME file photo)
Weyburn man still waiting for help with end-of-life care
Instead of concentrating on planning for his final days and soaking up time with his family, Fred Sandeski and his wife are worrying about health-care bills and their finances. Sandeski, 71, needs rou...
Jan 12, 2025 The community in Weyburn has been fundraising to help Fred Sandeski and his wife pay for his care. (File photo courtesy Discover Weyburn)
Sask. Gov. makes changes after sending wrong tax slips to 277
A couple hundred people in the province have been dealing with a privacy breach after a simple mistake within Saskatchewan's Ministry of Advanced Education. According to a report from the province's I...
Jan 09, 2025 According to a report from the province’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, a mistake was made in February last year in a spreadsheet, leading to the wrong address being put on mailing labels. (Céline Grimard/ 650 CKOM)
Sask. NDP Leader Carla Beck takes stock of 2024, looks forward to 2025
As the last hours of 2024 drain away and 2025 rushing closer and closer, many people take the time to take stock of the year that was, and plan for the year to come. Senior reporter Lisa Schick sat do...
Dec 27, 2024 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Premier Scott Moe reflects on 2024 and looks ahead to 2025
With the calendar about to turn over to 2025, it's only natural to take stock of the year that was and the hopes for the year that will be. Senior reporter Lisa Schick sat down with Premier Scott Moe ...
Dec 23, 2024 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Polievre unfazed by NDP non-confidence announcement
Friday morning, federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh posted a letter to his social media saying he and his party were ready to vote to bring down the Liberal government. This was the latest in a week of b...
Dec 20, 2024 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Sask. to ignore federal Clean Energy Regulations despite changes
Despite changes made within the final Clean Energy Regulations (CER) published by the federal government this week, the Government of Saskatchewan continued to dismiss the regulations themselves and t...
Dec 19, 2024 Minister responsible for SaskPower Jeremy Harrison says the changes made to the Clean Energy Regulations are only cosmetic and the really problematic bits still exist. (CJME file photo)
'It's a crisis': Regina homeless count sees 824, double 2021 number
As the temperature in Regina approached -40 C with the windchill and the province prepared for a snowstorm, inside downtown, Namerind Housing Corporation announced it counted a minimum of 824 people e...
Dec 18, 2024 After announcing the 824 number from the point-in-time count done in October, Robert Byers, president and CEO of Namerind Housing Corp. calls the problem of homelessness in Regina a crisis. Dec. 18, 2024 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Cockrill found to have violated, and not violated, conflict of interest rules
It was a mixed bag this week for Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill as two reports came out on him from the Conflict of Interest Commissioner. The reports stem from two complaints made by the NDP's Meara...
Dec 17, 2024 The Conflict of Interest Commissioner found Minister Jeremy Cockrill broke the rules when the window and door company he worked for got contracts from the local housing authority in the Battlefords. (CJME file photo)
Sask. to look at its own opportunities for border security after tariffs call
Saskatchewan's premier had definite thoughts about what should and shouldn't be happening around the tariff situation with the U.S.A. after a call with other premiers and the prime minister. The call ...
Dec 12, 2024 Premier Scott Moe says border security is a federal space but the province will look at what it can do itself. (CJME file photo)
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