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
Premier, environment minister to miss another climate march
Once again groups of students holding signs and waving at cars will march down Albert Street and gather in front of the Saskatchewan legislative building. They'll cheer, some of them will speak and al...
Sep 27, 2019 More than 200 students cut class on March 15 to protest the lack of action to address climate change at the Saskatchewan Legislature. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Calgary group encourages more women to engage in politics
Their research shows women are less comfortable in politics and, with just weeks to go until the federal election, members of a group out of Calgary are trying to change that. The group is called Cana...
Sep 25, 2019 (Elections Canada/Twitter)
Body rub regulation the better of two bad decisions: Sex assault centre
Regina city council's decision to regulate body rub parlours was split across council, passing in a 6-5 vote. The Regina Sexual Assault Centre's executive director presented in favour of regulation, b...
Sep 25, 2019
Customers, industry anxious to see new solar power program
The minister in charge of SaskPower is hurrying up a decision on a new rooftop solar program, but hundreds of people in Saskatchewan are waiting, stuck in limbo, in the meantime. Marsha Kennedy was ri...
Sep 24, 2019
'Why not?': Kram hopes a second run at Goodale gets him a victory
Michael Kram is going over familiar territory in this fall's federal election. It's the second time in a row he has gone up against the same candidate in the same riding. In 2015, Kram ran for the Con...
Sep 24, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. gov't moving up timeline on rooftop solar decision
Amid frustrations from customers and the solar power industry, the minister responsible for SaskPower has committed to moving up the timeline on a new net metering program. Last week, SaskPower announ...
Sep 23, 2019 Environment Minister Dustin Duncan file photo. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Times have changed: Goodale talks campaigns from 1974 to 2019
The year Ralph Goodale mounted his first political campaign, Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency, The Guess Who was enjoying its sixth song to make it into the Billboard Hot 100 -- Clap for the...
Sep 23, 2019 Ralph Goodale puts together campaign signs at his office during the 2019 election campaign. Sept. 18, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
New candidates don't feel behind; Sask. Liberal, NDP ridings still unfilled
Some candidates for the federal election in Saskatchewan have been campaigning and setting up for more than a year, but other candidates just found out they'll be running. The writ dropped early Wedne...
Sep 16, 2019
City of Regina checking blue bins, wants better recycling
Regina residents might see people looking through their blue recycling bins over the next month and a half, as the City of Regina sends out its CartSmart inspectors. From next week to about the end of...
Sep 13, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Goodale feeling good starting 15th campaign
Just a few hours after the writ dropped to start his 15th campaign to be elected into federal government, Ralph Goodale said that he was feeling very good. "The 40 days are going to be very vigorous, ...
Sep 13, 2019 Ralph Goodale. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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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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8:30 - Drivers are yet again feeling the pinch at the gas pump. Prices have climbed almost 20 cents per litre at some st...