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...
Author Archives: Lisa Schick
Urgent care centres announced for Regina and Saskatoon
Many of the details still have to be worked out, but Health Minister Jim Reiter stood in front of Regina's Pasqua Hospital on Monday morning to announce $30 million for two urgent care centres to be b...
Sep 21, 2020 Health Minister Jim Reiter announces funding for a new urgent care centre in Regina on Sept. 21, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Six months later: Lockdown in Saskatchewan
For some, it almost seems like a dream when Saskatchewan was turned upside down six months ago. On March 18, the provincial government issued orders to lock down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stores c...
Sep 18, 2020 Owner Michelle Strawford is excited to reopen her retail clothing store, Bella Chic Fashion Decor in White City, on May 19, 2020. (Adriana Christianson/980 CJME)
No location yet for new joint-use school in Harbour Landing
All kinds of ministers, board members and school delegates gathered in the park behind St. Kateri School in Harbour Landing on Wednesday afternoon -- properly distanced -- to celebrate work continuing...
Sep 16, 2020 Premier Scott Moe speaks to a small crowd at the reannouncement for a new joint-use school for Harbour Landing on Sept. 16, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Victims’ services looks to help families of missing persons cope
This week, there's a large video billboard sitting outside the new Regina Police Service headquarters building on Saskatchewan Drive. The billboard flips through photos, with names printed underneath,...
Sep 16, 2020 A billboard featuring pictures of long-term missing people in Saskatchewan has been erected on Saskatchewan Drive in Regina. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
City of Regina heading for COVID-19 deficit, according to report
The COVID-19 pandemic has been playing havoc with people's bank accounts all over the world for the past six months and the City of Regina is not immune. According to the mid-year financial report, to...
Sep 16, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
University students worried about privacy over test-monitoring software
Universities have had to find a whole new way of doing things in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that means whole new problems. Some of the solutions have students worried about their privacy. ...
Sep 15, 2020
Crews have dealt with fewer wildfires in Saskatchewan in 2020
While most people would be lamenting a way-below-average year, for Saskatchewan's Public Safety Agency, that's a good thing in 2020. So far this year, wildfire crews have had to deal with only 125 wil...
Sep 11, 2020 (Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency/Submitted)
Shahab reflects on first six months of pandemic in Saskatchewan
Six months ago, many people in Saskatchewan had never heard of terms like social distancing or effective reproductive number. They never considered wearing a face mask to the grocery store. Things hav...
Sep 11, 2020 Dr. Saqib Shahab, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Drive-through COVID-19 test site wildly busy on first day, SHA staying the course for now
It seems the new drive-through COVID-19 testing centre was the hot ticket in Regina on Tuesday afternoon. The Saskatchewan Health Authority said Wednesday it opened up all six lanes of the testing cen...
Sep 09, 2020 Vehicles line up on Dewdney Avenue while waiting to get into the drive-through testing site at Evraz Place on Sept. 8, 2020. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Drive-through COVID-19 testing facility opens in Regina
People concerned they might have COVID-19 now have a new way to get tested that could make things a bit easier. In Regina on Tuesday afternoon, the Saskatchewan Health Authority opened the province's ...
Sep 08, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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Sarah Mills: Accountability is a word some elected officials seem to be forgetting
From four people walking away from the RM of Sherwood council with little to no explanation to the reaction of some coun...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 28
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