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The City of Regina is prepared to spend nearly $7M to ensure the second Costco location remains within the city limits. ...
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Medical students join call for safe consumption site funding
In a few years, they're going to be the ones out helping to treat these problems, so a group of medical students is asking the provincial government to act now and put more money into mental health an...
Mar 28, 2023 Ryan Krochak, second-year medical student at the University of Saskatchewan and Regina president for Students for Harm Reduction and Informed Policy (SHRIP), holds up a nasal naloxone spray. He and other members of SHRIP want the provincial government to make the spray more available and to fund safe consumption sites in a bid to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths in the province. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'It really makes it impossible:' Advocates say SIS, SAID increases nowhere near enough
Among the few groups to directly get a bump in the provincial budget Wednesday were income assistance clients, but advocates say rates are still too low. As part of the budget, Saskatchewan Income Sup...
Mar 23, 2023 (Peter Gilmer/Facebook)
'A very good feeling': Health minister happy with $6.9B in budget
While social services and education got boosts as well, health care was the centrepiece of the province's spring budget this week. The total amount for the Ministry of Health was $6.9 billion -- an in...
Mar 23, 2023 Health Minister Paul Merriman. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatchewan's '23-24 budget sees $1B surplus, health care top priority
The numbers in the new budget are looking pretty rosy for the Government of Saskatchewan, and one doesn't have to be wearing glasses of the same colour to see why. The province is expecting a $1-billi...
Mar 22, 2023 Finance Minister Donna Harpauer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Provincial budget to be released amid questions about health care
On Wednesday afternoon, the provincial government will release its spring budget, outlining its priorities and predictions for the year ahead. And it appears the gravy train is still running for Saska...
Mar 22, 2023 Finance Minister Donna Harpauer answers questions on the 2021-22 provincial budget on April 6, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
MLA raises capped at 3 per cent
Saskatchewan MLAs will be getting a smaller pay raise next month than first anticipated. Their pay is, in part, tied to inflation, so with high inflation numbers last year, the base MLA pay would have...
Mar 21, 2023 (980 CJME file photo)
Sentence for 2019 sex assault more than tripled on appeal
After a conviction and sentencing in provincial court, a Court of Appeals judge has more than tripled the original sentence for a 2019 sexual assault in Prince Albert. Wade Merasty was found guilty in...
Mar 21, 2023 (980 CJME file photo)
SAID clients call for increase ahead of budget
The rotunda in the Legislature was full of people Monday morning, asking for help from the provincial government. They were all clients of the Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) program...
Mar 21, 2023 Jaimie Ellis is one of half a dozen people who the Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) program, speaking to media about the need for higher benefits. Mar. 20, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan gov't sees rail merger as opportunity
Saskatchewan's minister of agriculture is seeing opportunity in the recent approval of a move by Canadian Pacific Rail (CP Rail). The company's takeover of Kansas City Southern Railway has now been ap...
Mar 17, 2023 Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Dave Marit speaks to the media in the rotunda of the legislative building on March 5, 2019. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Métis, First Nation groups oppose Sask. First Act as it passes third reading
The galleries at the Saskatchewan Legislature were full of people on their feet Thursday morning, standing to support the Official Opposition as it voted 'no' on Bill 88's third reading. The bill, als...
Mar 16, 2023 Michelle LeClair, vice-president of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, speaks on the Saskatchewan First Act at the Legislative Building on March 16, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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