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...
Author Archives: Lisa Schick
COVID-19 outbreak at Yorkton Regional Health Centre grows to 90 cases
A COVID-19 outbreak that started in mid-January at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre has grown to 90 cases, nearly doubling in the past week. The Saskatchewan Health Authority said the 90 cases linke...
Feb 04, 2021 (City of Yorkton/Facebook)
NDP calling for end to for-profit care homes in Sask.
The Saskatchewan NDP is calling the treatment of seniors in long-term care under the pandemic a failure. Matt Love, the NDP critic for seniors, said the provincial government failed to act on what he ...
Feb 02, 2021 NDP Leader Ryan Meili. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Province explains removal of COVID deaths from count
On Wednesday, the province announced in its daily COVID-19 update that three people who had previously been counted as deaths related to the virus were being removed from the count. The news release s...
Jan 22, 2021
NDP calls for investigation into Extendicare finances
Saskatchewan's NDP thinks the financials for the Extendicare company should be included in the promised investigation into the Parkside Extendicare COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreak at Parkside included...
Jan 22, 2021 Parkside Extendicare care home in Regina. (Logan Stein/980 CJME file photo)
Judge rejects long-term offender designation in child porn case
A Saskatoon judge has declined to declare a man convicted of having child pornography a long-term offender because the circumstances around him and his crimes are too severe. Gabriel Curtis Roy recent...
Jan 21, 2021
Eyebrows raise across the province at Regina executive committee decision
It's not just some within Regina's city limits with strong opinions about a recent executive committee decision at City Hall. Many across the province have been left shaking their heads as well. On We...
Jan 21, 2021
Saskatchewan set to work with Biden administration: Moe
Premier Scott Moe says his government is ready to get down to business with Joe Biden's administration. Moe issued a statement Wednesday following Biden's inauguration in which the premier said he hop...
Jan 20, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Weyburn hospital closed to non-COVID patients
People who aren't feeling well in Weyburn are going to have to go somewhere other than the Weyburn General Hospital. The Saskatchewan Health Authority has decided to move the hospital to care only for...
Jan 20, 2021 (Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation Inc./Facebook)
Some seniors left out of COVID vaccine distribution at Regina care home
While the rest of the residents at the Qu'Appelle House Special Care Home in Regina got their COVID-19 shots on Monday, those in assisted living suites at the residence had to wait. The residents of t...
Jan 19, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Saskatchewan gov't already working against Keystone cancellation
The Saskatchewan government is already working to stop the potential cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline approval in the United States, according to Premier Scott Moe. Over the weekend, it came o...
Jan 18, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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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
8:30 - A mega-farm in Saskatchewan is raising major concerns about debt, rapid expansion and financial pressures facing ...