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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)
Sask. not among provinces signed on to $10-a-day child care extension
Saskatchewan was out nearly on its own Thursday, when the federal government announced agreements to extend the Early Learning and Child Care program, which provides for $10-a-day daycare. Eleven of t...
Mar 06, 2025 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plays with children at a public library in Regina at a parental leave announcement in 2018. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Tariff situation making provincial budgeting difficult
The back-and-forth threat of American tariffs and uncertainty around how much, where and when has made building the Government of Saskatchewan's budget "very difficult" according to provincial Finance...
Mar 06, 2025 Saskatchewan’s spring budget for 2025-26 is expected to be released March 19. (CJME file photo)
Sask. 'labour shortage possible' if SINP pause lasts too long
Saskatchewan has been on a path of growth for nearly the last decade and immigration has been a significant part of it. However, a new pause in the province's program could put a damper on that. As of...
Mar 05, 2025 The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) has paused its application intake, the provincial government says, to make changes after the federal government cut its allocation for immigrants in half. (CJME file photo)
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...