Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
Author Archives: Lisa Schick
Airbnb operators should pay GST, says hotel association
Business is booming for Airbnb hosts in Regina, but hotel owners aren't happy about it. They're even putting "fair rules for the short-term rental industry" as their No. 1 priority for the federal ele...
Sep 12, 2019
Family out $2,500 after Swoop emergency landing in Regina
Regina was the site of "incredible stress" for an Ontario man last week as he tried to get his family from their emergency landing to a funeral a province away. Late Wednesday night, a Swoop plane fro...
Sep 11, 2019 A stock photo of a Swoop Airlines plane. (Abbotsford Airport/Twitter)
SaskPower dealing with rash of copper thefts in south-central Sask.
SaskPower is asking people to keep an eye out for suspicious behaviour at its substations after a rash of break-ins and thefts. The Crown corporation said Tuesday the thieves are breaking into the sit...
Sep 10, 2019 (980 CJME file photo)
New University of Regina class going behind bars
A new class being offered at the University of Regina for the winter semester will take an English course, and students, to inmates at the Regina Correctional Centre. It's a 300-level class and it's c...
Sep 10, 2019
WestJet cancelling some hot direct flights out of Sask.
With the hot holiday season soon to start, vacationers in Saskatchewan could need a bit longer to get where they're going. Between Nov. 4 and Jan. 5, WestJet is cancelling some of its direct flights b...
Sep 09, 2019 (BriYYZ/Flickr)
Rain and wind: Former Saskatchewan woman describes Hurricane Dorian
Hunkering down, watching as Hurricane Dorian hit her little bit of Nova Scotia - it's a situation a lot different than when Kate Peardon lived in Saskatchewan. She lived in Regina and Saskatoon for se...
Sep 08, 2019 Crews from Nova Scotia Power work Sunday to clean up debris and downed power lines from Hurricane Dorian. courtesy @nspowerinc on Twitter.
Rain and wind: former Saskatchewan woman describes Hurricane Dorian
Hunkering down, watching as Hurricane Dorian hit her little bit of Nova Scotia -- it's a situation a lot different than when Kate Peardon lived in Saskatchewan. She lived in Regina and Saskatoon for s...
Sep 08, 2019 Crews from Nova Scotia Power work Sunday to clean up debris and downed power lines from Hurricane Dorian. courtesy @nspowerinc on Twitter.
Regina restaurant speaks out over construction woes
The tables are set, the cupcake case is full, and workers are busy in the kitchen, but on Friday all that can be seen out the front window of Fresh & Sweet on Victoria Avenue is a big fence and la...
Sep 05, 2019 Beata Kowalski is one of the owners of Fresh & Sweet on Victoria Ave. and she says the construction has the restaurant boxed in and is hurting business. Sept. 5, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Co-op moving food store, but not pharmacy from Hillsdale
The Sherwood Co-op food store may be relocating from its store at Albert Street and 25th Avenue, but it's not moving everything. The pharmacy is going to stick around. "We have a great pharmacy busine...
Sep 04, 2019 The Sherwood Co-op on Albert Street and 25th Avenue is leaving its pharmacy in place as it moves its food store to Harbour Landing. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Regina Bypass forcing major intersection changes in northwest Regina
Drivers in northwest Regina are going to have to find a different route for the next six weeks, and maybe longer, as the city makes traffic changes for the Regina Bypass. Starting on Wednesday, the in...
Sep 04, 2019
OPINION
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...
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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...