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...
Author Archives: Lisa Schick
Sask. gov't still doesn't have finished plan to deal with possible coronavirus outbreak
The Government of Saskatchewan still doesn't have a finished plan on how it, and its many arms, would deal with a coronavirus outbreak if it were to happen here. Health Minister Jim Reiter said the pl...
Mar 11, 2020
Meili calling for postponed budget in wake of coronavirus-related market drop
With markets and oil prices taking a plunge in reaction to coronavirus in countries around the world, the leader of Saskatchewan's NDP wants the government to postpone the budget and take another look...
Mar 10, 2020 Sask. NDP Leader Ryan Meili (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
PC party leader cries foul on Sask. Party mailers
A large three-page mailer with the premier's face on it arrived at many people's home recently. It sported the Saskatchewan Party's green-and-yellow colour scheme and read "A New Decade of Growth 2020...
Mar 09, 2020
Teachers unimpressed with province's proposal on classroom composition
The second meeting between the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) in about a week had the teachers' representatives leaving less than impressed. The two sides are tr...
Mar 05, 2020 Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Patrick Maze. (File photo by Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Parent says new southeast Regina high school sorely needed
At least one parent is happy to see Regina's public and Catholic school divisions working on a possible new joint-use high school in the city's southeast. On Tuesday, a memorandum of understanding was...
Mar 05, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Timmons bids farewell to leadership forum she helped create
Vianne Timmons said she was getting a little emotional Wednesday as she spoke about leaving the University of Regina in about a month and her last Inspiring Leadership Forum as president of the univer...
Mar 04, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Coronach 'open for business' with transition money announced Friday
First with the oil downturn starting in 2014 and now with federal regulations moving the country away from coal, southeast Saskatchewan's economy is hurting. But on Friday, the provincial government a...
Feb 28, 2020 Coronach's mayor Trevor Schnell, Feb. 28, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Regina school divisions say it's too early to plan for coronavirus outbreak
While the Saskatchewan Health Authority is planning for the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak in the province, schools in Regina aren't preparing just yet. Neither the public nor Catholic school d...
Feb 28, 2020
Province preparing for coronavirus outbreak, adding to travel list
Health authorities around the world are preparing for coronavirus outbreaks as they watch more pop up in places like Italy and South Korea. Saskatchewan also is gearing up, even though it hasn't had a...
Feb 27, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Two separate lunchtime fires cause 'considerable' damage to Regina homes
Fire crews in Regina had a busy lunchtime on Wednesday, responding to two separate fires about 45 minutes apart. The first was called in at around 11 a.m., on Nagel Crescent in the Glencairn neighbour...
Feb 26, 2020 Firefighters head in to attack the last pockets of fire at a house on the 1400 block of Athol Street on Feb. 26, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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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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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...