Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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Campaigning for two: Aleana Young door-knocking while eight months pregnant
Door-knocking can be one of the most gruelling parts of a political campaign -- walking several kilometres a day, talking to people on the issues and trying to bring them to your side. But those tasks...
Oct 05, 2020 Aleana Young, NDP candidate for Regina University. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
No major surprises to come in election results: political scientist
The writ has been dropped and for the next four weeks or so the governing will stop and the campaigning will kick into high gear. On election night, Joe Garcea doesn't think there will be any major su...
Oct 04, 2020
Sask. Party promises SaskPower rebate
Standing at a podium in the middle of the large empty space serving as Gary Grewal's campaign office, Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe on Thursday promised savings for SaskPower customers if his pa...
Oct 01, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
U of R prof offers insight into provincial election campaign
With the writ dropping Tuesday, the province has jumped into a political race that's to last the next four weeks. Jim Farney, an associate professor of politics and international studies at the Univer...
Sep 29, 2020
Former NDP candidate Morin running as independent in Regina Walsh Acres
Saskatchewan's NDP wouldn't let Sandra Morin run as one of its candidates, so now the former cabinet minister will be running against that party in Regina Walsh Acres. On Friday morning, Morin announc...
Sep 25, 2020 Sandra Morin announced on Sept. 25, 2020 she'll be running as an independent candidate in Regina Walsh Acres in the upcoming provincial election. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Municipal polling stations to be in schools despite strict school bubbles
Part of the plan to keep schools as safe as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic is to keep the people at a school to a minimum. That means no visitors -- and even parents are being asked to leave th...
Sep 24, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Schools investigating clothing stains from disinfectant
The first couple of weeks of school seem to have gone well in Saskatchewan, except these days, some kids in Regina are coming home with stains on their clothes. It's believed to be from the Vital Oxid...
Sep 24, 2020 (Natasha Boughen/Twitter)
Moe preparing for first election as Sask. Party leader
Premier Scott Moe already has a few elections under his belt, but the upcoming contest will be his first leading the Saskatchewan Party. Moe said it feels somewhat different this time, explaining he's...
Sep 24, 2020 Premier Scott Moe (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
NDP fires riding association president in Regina Walsh Acres
About a month after the Saskatchewan NDP removed a candidate for the Regina Walsh Acres riding, the party has removed the president of the riding association as well. Barb Dedi said she got an email f...
Sep 23, 2020 (Barb Dedi/Facebook)
NDP promises to take corporate, out-of-province money out of Sask. politics
NDP Leader Ryan Meili says Saskatchewan has the worst campaign finance laws in the country, and he's pledging to fix them if his party forms government this fall. "We need to level the playing field a...
Sep 23, 2020 NDP Leader Ryan Meili announcing his party's intention to ban corporate and out-of-province political donations on Sept. 23, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Murray Wood: The Art of the CUSMA Deal
Insults, complaints that Canada is so mean, warnings the U.S. doesn't need us. It's all standard operating procedure. Th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 29
8:30 - The spring fiscal update released yesterday includes new measures such as a major skilled trades training program...