Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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Sask. Legislature passes unanimous motion supporting RCMP Depot
Right after spending 40 minutes throwing insults across the aisle at each other, members of the Saskatchewan Legislature came together Monday to throw official support behind RCMP Depot Division remai...
Apr 03, 2023 Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'Good news:' Sask. government welcomes Japan's decision on Canadian beef
Saskatchewan's government is excited at the prospect of a wider market to sell beef after Japan dropped the last of its restrictions on Canadian beef. Last week, the Japanese government threw the door...
Apr 03, 2023 Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit. (980 CJME file photo)
City of Regina insists tap water is safe
Despite a recent report that claimed to have found asbestos in Regina's tap water, the City of Regina insists its water is fine. "The City of Regina meets all provincial and federal regulations. Water...
Apr 03, 2023 City of Regina crews pump out water from a water main break on 13th Avenue north of the General Hospital. (Evan Radford/980 CJME)
Legislation for physician assistants introduced in Saskatchewan
In a bid to help heal Saskatchewan's limping health-care system, the province's health minister has introduced legislation to allow physician assistants to practise in Saskatchewan. "This is another t...
Apr 02, 2023 Health Minister Paul Merriman (980 CJME)
Health minister defends $6M deal to have surgeries performed in Calgary
Over the next year, several dozen people from Saskatchewan will be sent to Calgary for surgery, with a price tag of $6 million for the Saskatchewan government. The deal was signed this week for 240 su...
Mar 31, 2023 Health Minister Paul Merriman (980 CJME)
Sask. PC party accusing Sask. United Party of underhanded dealings
After what it calls a foiled takeover attempt last year, the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan now says a hard drive with member and donor information is missing, and it's pointing a fing...
Mar 30, 2023
Saskatchewan MLAs share memories of the late Derek Meyers in Assembly
It was another day full of tears at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building on Wednesday. Instead of the normal proceedings for government, the MLAs took that time to speak about Derek Meyers, the MLA f...
Mar 29, 2023 A book of condolences, a candle and flowers are set up in the rotunda at the Legislature for Derek Meyers. (980 CJME)
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)
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 29
8:30 - The spring fiscal update released yesterday includes new measures such as a major skilled trades training program...