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Sask. budget tease: Municipal revenue sharing up eight per cent for 2026-27
As has become almost a tradition for the Sask. Party Government, it unveiled the Municipal Revenue Sharing total for the coming fiscal year a week ahead of the provincial budget, during the annual SAR...
Mar 11, 2026 The provincial government announced what the municipal revenue sharing would be for 2026-27, a week ahead of the provincial budget being unveiled. (Lisa Schick/ CJME file photo)
Sask. keeps an eye on employees' safety with trade office in Dubai
Dubai is counted among the cities in which Saskatchewan has established an international trade office, but safety there is in question as attacks continue from Iran. The capital of the Emirate of Duba...
Mar 05, 2026 Saskatchewan Trade and Export Development Minister Warren Kaeding says his ministry has been in nearly daily contact with its trade office in Dubai as attacks have come from Iran. March 5, 2026 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan to spend more than $850K on trade consultants in next fiscal year
In the coming fiscal year, the Government of Saskatchewan is expected to spend more than $850,000 on consultants to support the province's trade efforts, including in countries where the province has ...
Mar 05, 2026 The provincial government has approved hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending on consultants to bolster the province's trade position in the U.S., China, India and the Middle East. (Lisa Schick/CJME)
Balgonie high school lockdown ends with arrest of two youths
A call from Highway #1 and a handful of BB guns put Greenall High School into lockdown Wednesday morning for a short time. Dozens of RCMP officers descended on the small community east of Regina after...
Mar 04, 2026 The Saskatchewan RCMP says the Balgonie school was placed under “hold and secure” at 11 a.m. The lockdown was lifted about an hour later after two people were arrested. (Jacob Bamhour/980 CJME)
Sask. expanding applications for nurse practitioners as primary care providers
In an effort to get everyone in the province a primary care provider, the provincial government is turning to rely even more on nurse practitioners. The government has opened another round of applicat...
Mar 04, 2026
'It's a big relief': Sask. extends tuition relief for Ukrainian students
Anton Merzliakov came to Saskatchewan with his family from Kiev, fleeing Russia's war in Ukraine. They arrived on one of the first humanitarian flights, which were organized with the Government of Sas...
Mar 03, 2026 Anton Merzliakov, who fled the war in Ukraine with his family, says the provincial government’s tuition relief has allowed him to continue on to student software systems engineering and look forward to a build a career here. Photo taken on Mar. 3, 2026. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'Nobody anticipated that': Unclear how the oil price might affect the Sask. Budget
Oil prices were at a several-month high at the beginning of the week due to the fighting in Iran, but on Monday ministers in the Saskatchewan government were pretty quiet about what it might mean for ...
Mar 02, 2026 Finance Minister Jim Reiter says fluctuations happen all the time in commodities, which is why the Sask. Party government has tried to rely less on natural resources like oil. Photo taken on Mar. 2, 2026 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. lawmakers 'pleased' with Canada-India uranium deal
With the trade deals, MOUs and understandings signed between Canada and India over the last day or so, Saskatchewan Trade and Export Development Minister Warren Kaeding said on Monday that it's a "ver...
Mar 02, 2026 Saskatchewan’s Trade and Export Development Minister Warren Kaeding says the deal for India to purchase uranium from Cameco is good for the company, the province, and Canada as a whole. Mar. 2, 2026 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Budget, private members' bills, involuntary treatment in Sask. spring sitting
The Saskatchewan Assembly will be filled with men and women on either side of the aisle again on Monday. The spring sitting starts in the afternoon, though without Premier Scott Moe who will be away o...
Mar 02, 2026 The ten weeks of the spring legislative sitting will begin on Monday in Saskatchewan (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. NDP bringing in experienced researcher to work on health-care plans
As the Sask. NDP works on its Big, Bold Plan for health care, it's brought in an experienced health-care researcher to make sense of the data. Researcher, Dr. Cheryl Camillo, was announced as a part o...
Mar 01, 2026 Health-care researcher Dr. Cheryl Camillo is being brought into the Sask. NDP fold to help them parse through their health-care consultation data and to help the Opposition party create new bills and plans around health care. Photo taken on Feb. 26, 2026. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, July 17
On Friday's show, guest host Tamara Cherry talks about the legacy of the Legion, a four-day week for some schools, the W...