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Summer is a time for homecomings and reunions, and in Saskatchewan that often means city folks going out to the family f...
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'This is about fairness': Crowns minister explains new SaskEnergy carbon tax fight
As the weather continued its downward slide into winter on Monday, the Saskatchewan government announced it would be taking its next step in its long-standing opposition to the federal carbon tax, wit...
Oct 31, 2023 Minister responsible for SaskEnergy Dustin Duncan explained Monday how his government will stop the Crown collecting and remitting the carbon tax as of Jan. 1. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'We need to help them find a path': Gov't to move to recovery-based addictions system
As Saskatchewan is on track for another record year of drug overdose deaths, the provincial government appears to be narrowing its focus when it comes to mental health and addictions. In Wednesday's t...
Oct 27, 2023 Mental Health and Addictions Minister Tim McLeod. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Results of teacher sanctions vote expected Friday
On Friday morning, the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) is expected to release what job action could look like if contract talks with the provincial government continue to go nowhere. Last week...
Oct 27, 2023 Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation President Samantha Becotte says teachers don't want to strike but they know things can't continue down the path they are in classrooms. Oct. 25, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Affordability, home ownership likely in the cards for throne speech
On Wednesday afternoon, the Saskatchewan Party government will lay out its priorities in what will likely be the last Speech from the Throne before next fall's expected provincial election. Now that t...
Oct 25, 2023 Premier Scott Moe dropped a few hints about Wednesday's throne speech in an interview with John Gormley. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Sparring over notwithstanding clause as pronoun legislation debate nears end
While the hours left before the Saskatchewan government's pronoun legislation could become law dwindled on Thursday, the question of the use of the notwithstanding clause in the legislation came to th...
Oct 20, 2023 Saskatchewan Justice Minister and Attorney General Bronwyn Eyre is defending the use of the notwithstanding clause in the passage of the province's pronoun legislation. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Pronoun bill opponents decry lack of consultation
With just a few more hours left before debate finishes on the pronoun legislation in Saskatchewan, opposition to the bill wasn't finished Thursday morning. A group of Indigenous leaders and teens watc...
Oct 19, 2023 Tyler George, Saskatchewan's two-spirit representative to the Assembly of First Nations and a headperson for Ochapowace First Nation, says First Nations and two-spirit people were not consulted about the pronoun policy. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Pronoun legislation nearing the end of debate
By Thursday night, it could all be over but the formalities in the passing of the Saskatchewan Party's pronoun legislation. The government passed a doubling of the debate hours for Bill 137, from 20 t...
Oct 19, 2023 Marathon debate continues as the provincial government introduces "Parents' Bill of Rights." (File photo)
Families, friends bring concerns about Regina Lutheran Home to Legislature
Things haven't seemed to change for people currently living at the Regina Lutheran Home after they were told the care home is closing and after they reached out for help. At the end of last month, it ...
Oct 18, 2023 Friends and family members stand in the Legislative Building's rotunda, there to ask the government to take over the Regina Lutheran Home, which is soon to close. Pictured are (L to R) Don Gunderson, Lorraine Simpson, Val Schalme, Vivian Trithart, Shelley Johnson and Joyce Hextall. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan teens walk out of class to protest pronoun policy
With many wearing flags and waving signs, students walked out of class Tuesday afternoon to show their frustration and displeasure with the government's soon-to-be law around pronouns in schools. In R...
Oct 17, 2023 A teen holds up a protest sign in front of Balfour Collegiate in Regina after several teens walked out of class Tuesday afternoon to protest the pronoun policy that will soon be law in Saskatchewan. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Regina Public Schools responds after minister places blame for pronoun policy
Throughout the life of the provincial government's pronoun policy, the government has been slowly talking more about what prompted it - along with the other two education policies around sex education...
Oct 17, 2023 Sask. Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill. Oct 12, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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