Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
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Homelessness at top of agenda for city budget delegates
Pleading, instructing, negotiating and in some cases angrily berating, members of the public spent much of Thursday exhorting Regina city council to include a plan to end homelessness in the coming ye...
Dec 15, 2022 Regina city councillors listen to delegates during the 2022 budget deliberations on Dec. 15, 2022. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
City council approves Regina police budget
After several hours of presentations and questions, Regina city council approved the Regina Police Service budget for 2023, as is, late Wednesday afternoon. The 2023 budget is set to rise $6.3 million...
Dec 14, 2022 Regina Police Chief Evan Bray explains to city council why he believes police need their full budget ask for 2023 on Dec. 14, 2022. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Decision reserved in court case over Regina city budget
It was standing room only in a Regina King's Bench courtroom Tuesday morning as arguments began in the court application against city manager Niki Anderson. So many people were in the room at first th...
Dec 13, 2022 Regina city councillor and lawyer Dan LeBlanc speaks to media outside Court of King's Bench after finishing oral arguments on Dec. 13, 2022. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Councillors, city manager heading to court Tuesday
On Tuesday morning, a day before they start at City Hall, arguments over the City of Regina's budget will take place in a courthouse. A judge will hear the arguments over an application to force the c...
Dec 13, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. parents calling for investigation into formula shortage
Some parents in Saskatchewan are frustrated over -- and worried about -- where their child's next meal is going to come from. Formula shortages have been reported across North America. Sherry Rapley a...
Dec 11, 2022 Sherry Rapley and her five-month-old daughter Amaryllis (c) are at the legislature to bring attention to a lack of infant formula in the province and asking the provincial government to look into it. Dec. 7, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Moe, other premiers push for meeting with Trudeau on health-care cash
Not for the first time, Canada's premiers are extending an invitation to the prime minister for a meeting in January about health-care funding. The premiers came together at a Council of the Federatio...
Dec 09, 2022 Premier Scott Moe. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Invitations and jurisdictions: Fall sitting ends at Legislature
Many Saskatchewan MLAs are heading home this week after the fall sitting came to an end Wednesday. Looking back, the seven weeks began with a splash when convicted murderer, and former MLA, Colin That...
Dec 08, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
Cop Shop returns in Regina after pandemic hiatus
Nearly a dozen kids were excitedly bopping around the Cornwall Centre on Wednesday afternoon, gift cards in their hands and Regina police officers clearing the way. The Regina Police Service partnered...
Dec 07, 2022 The sixth annual Cop Shop brought Regina police officers together with 20 deserving kids from the community for a Christmas shopping spree at the Cornwall Centre on Dec. 7, 2022. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Auditor says SHA needs to do more to recruit health-care workers
The Saskatchewan auditor believes there's more the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) could do to bring in hard-to-recruit health-care workers quicker. Auditor Tara Clemett released the second volume...
Dec 06, 2022 Provincial auditor Tara Clemett. (980 CJME)
'Defies common sense': NDP decries move to collect own corporate taxes
The Saskatchewan NDP's finance critic isn't being shy about his thoughts on bringing corporate income taxes home for Saskatchewan to collect itself. "This is a real backwards plan, more costly plan, w...
Dec 06, 2022 NDP MLA Trent Wotherspoon. (980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: Subtle words delivered by a king
Sarah Mills says King Charles touched on everything from NATO to climate and global conflicts in his speech to U.S. Cong...
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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...