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Summer opening planned for Regina Urgent Care Centre
After years of talking about it, the Saskatchewan government celebrated Tuesday the construction being finished on the new Regina Urgent Care Centre. Many ministers, MLAs and community leaders were on...
Apr 09, 2024 The newly built Regina Urgent Care Centre.(Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Door open for accountability framework in legislation or future contract: Cockrill
As Saskatchewan's teachers start an indefinite term of "work to rule," the province's education minister appears to be opening up more avenues to try to get the teachers' committee to the bargaining t...
Apr 08, 2024 Sask. Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill says he's offered the Sask. Teachers' Federation to include the potential MOU guaranteeing Sask. school divisions to have an accountability framework in place for government funding. Apr 8, 2024 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. Public Safety Agency preparing for wildfire season
After a record-setting wildfire season in 2023, the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) gave an update on the upcoming season, saying it's currently expected to be average or above average. Start...
Apr 08, 2024 Lower-than-normal precipitation over the winter has the SPSA concerned about the risk of wildfires in 2024. (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
Sask. joins recovery-oriented provincial addictions partnership
Three provincial mental health and addictions ministers gathered in Calgary on Thursday to announce an information-sharing partnership on their shared move to a recovery-oriented system of care. Saska...
Apr 04, 2024 Tim McLeod joins mental health and addictions ministers from Ontario and Alberta on Thursday to announce a new partnership on their shared move to a "recovery-oriented system of care."
(Government of Alberta livestream)
Province pushing Saskatchewan teachers' union to sign MOU
Nearly a week after he announced he'd be open to an accountability framework on classroom support money, Saskatchewan Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill announced the province's teachers' union, the S...
Mar 28, 2024 Saskatchewan Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill argues that, whether they're in the teachers' contract or not, accountability agreements still come out as good for students. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'They're after the money:' Sextortion of teens on the rise in Sask.
Parents across Saskatchewan are being asked to be more aware of what their teenagers are doing online as police warn about a rise in sextortion scams targeting teens. "As technology advances, so does ...
Mar 28, 2024 The RCMP in Saskatchewan has been seeing a marked increase in complaints about teens being extorted after sending nude photos to someone online. (980 CJME file photo)
Conservative premiers are lying about carbon pricing: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says conservative politicians across Canada, including premiers, are lying to Canadians about the carbon price. Most premiers and the federal Conservatives are pushing th...
Mar 27, 2024 Premier Scott Moe raised his objections to the carbon tax to a standing committee in Ottawa on Wednesday. (Screenshot)
Saskatchewan income benefit increase not enough: Advocate
While the Saskatchewan government calls its increases to income assistance in the coming year's provincial budget reasonable, advocates say the increases -- and the programs themselves -- aren't nearl...
Mar 26, 2024
Saskatchewan putting millions into shelter security
Homelessness has been getting worse in Saskatchewan, requiring more shelter spaces. But as those spaces have opened, there are some who've been concerned about crime. This week, in the provincial budg...
Mar 22, 2024 The site of the provincial government's planned complex needs shelter on Idylwyld Drive North in Saskatoon. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Labour prof lays out what could happen as province, teachers continue to fight
Frustration is mounting for many in Saskatchewan as the provincial government and teachers' union continue their contract fight, and the question on the lips of many is "When will this end?" Both side...
Mar 19, 2024 Classrooms around the province will be empty Wednesday as teachers stage a one-day strike. (980 CJME file photo)
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