Murray Wood: Going to seed, in a good way
Murray Wood says seed sales are taking off this spring. Food prices are likely convincing some to grow their own vegetab...
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Moe to press on canola in call with new Prime Minister Carney
Canola will be paramount for Premier Scott Moe on Friday when he gets on a call with the other premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney. The premiers are expected to get on their first call with the ne...
Mar 21, 2025 Premier Scott Moe says he plans to bring up the Chinese canola tariff on a call with the other premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney (CJME file photo)
Sask. NDP emergency motion on Trump changed, passed
An emergency motion from the Sask. NDP on the Trump administration and the tariff threat to Canada was passed unanimously on Thursday morning in the legislature, but only after being fundamentally cha...
Mar 20, 2025 Sask. NDP Leader Carla Beck and her party were told they couldn’t wear their Team Canada jerseys into the Assembly on Thursday. Mar. 20, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'Tremendous position of strength': Moe defends spring budget
Premier Scott Moe started off Wednesday by touting his government's choices in the spring budget. "Although (tariff) challenges are in no way diminished, as they are the most significant economic chal...
Mar 20, 2025 Premier Scott Moe talks about the impracticality of a contingency fund ahead of the spring budget being released. Mar. 19, 2025
Tariffs threat not built into Sask. 2025-26 budget
The Saskatchewan budget delivered Wednesday afternoon was normal in that it showed revenues and expenses, potash projections and spending on health care. What was notable was what wasn't included in t...
Mar 19, 2025 Finance Minister Jim Reiter says they couldn’t predict with any certainty which tariffs could be implemented when and for how long, so they weren’t included at all in the budget estimates for the coming year. Mar. 18, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. Government prepares to deliver 2025-26 provincial budget
The Sask. Party Government has been dropping hints for the last couple of weeks about what will be in the provincial budget, which will be unveiled Wednesday afternoon. At the SARM convention, Premier...
Mar 19, 2025 Finance Minister Jim Reiter will unveil the provincial budget on Wednesday afternoon, though he and other government officials have already dropped a number of hints about its contents. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Province taking further steps towards full Saskatchewan Marshals Service
The Government of Saskatchewan is looking to take the next step toward a fully functioning provincial marshals service. This week the government put out a request for proposals to find consulting serv...
Mar 15, 2025 The province is looking for a consultant to help put together a framework for a governance advisory council. (Saskatchewan Marshals Service/Facebook)
The legacy of COVID: The 'new normal' at school and work
This week marks the five-year anniversary of COVID-19 arriving in Saskatchewan. Public health measures starting being laid down, and within two weeks tens of thousands of people were working from home...
Mar 13, 2025 Nurse Leah Sawatsky receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 15, 2020. (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
The legacy of COVID: What don't we know about the virus five years later
Five years ago, the first case of COVID was reported in Saskatchewan. Over the following months and years, medical experts and scientists became familiar figures, and regular people learned about new ...
Mar 12, 2025 Six years after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Saskatchewan, a VIDO scientist at the U of S reflects on the lessons learned. (CJME file photo)
The legacy of COVID: How long-haul COVID is lingering in Sask.
It's been five years since COVID-19 first arrived in Saskatchewan. The first case was publicly reported March 12, 2020 in a person who had arrived back in Saskatchewan from Egypt. What followed were t...
Mar 12, 2025 Pam Milos and her son are still dealing with the effects of long-COVID, five years after the virus first arrived in Saskatchewan. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Premier Scott Moe has questions for new Liberal leader Mark Carney
On Sunday afternoon, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe took to social media to congratulate Mark Carney on his Liberal leadership win. The next day, he used the same platform to lay out some expectations...
Mar 10, 2025 Premier Scott Moe posted some questions and expectations for the new Liberal leader Mark Carney on social media Monday. (980 CJME file photo)
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Sarah Mills: We are feeling the pinch of rising prices, even beyond the gas pumps
Costs have already gone up with airlines. Parcel and delivery services could also increase, and even ride sharing may ja...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
On Tuesday's show, Evan talks about the Prime Minister's transition from minority to majority government, explores a pro...