Sarah Mills: Ending door-to-door is the future for Canada Post
Rural Sask. has picked up mail from shared mailboxes for decades. Now, it will be the same in some parts of in Regina an...
Author Archives: Lisa Schick
Sask. Health Authority in the midst of preparing for coronavirus
With cases being found in provinces across the country, it's likely not a matter of if Saskatchewan will see its first coronavirus case, it's when. So the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is in the...
Mar 11, 2020 John Ash, executive director of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, Dr. Saqib Shahab, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, and Health Minister Jim Reiter (l to r) discuss the province's plans for dealing with COVID-19 on March 11, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. students rally to save their extracurriculars
Sports jerseys and team flags of every colour took over the steps of Saskatchewan's legislative building on Wednesday at lunchtime, worn by teenagers rallying for their extracurriculars. A new contrac...
Mar 11, 2020 Students rallied at the Saskatchewan legislature to protest the loss of extracurricular activities on March 11, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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
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Evan Bray: What would 'associate' EU membership mean for Canada?
There's been a lot of talk about Canada possibly becoming an "associate member" of the European Union. Evan Br...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, Sept. 18
On Friday's show, Evan discusses Canada's nuclear future with Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel. Plus, marking 10 years of harm redu...