Sarah Mills: The president is playing a game of Risk with real lives
Sarah Mills says when you make a threat like "a whole civilization will die tonight" about Iran, the only choi...
Author Archives: Lisa Schick
Long COVID is 'emerging public health crisis'
While people who have COVID-19 can be contagious for as long as 10 days, the symptoms for some are lasting months or even years and that is poised to be a big burden on Saskatchewan. "I think this is ...
Jun 10, 2022 (The Canadian Press file photo)
Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant renewal to begin next month
There's a constant hum in the background inside the current Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant, no matter where you are. But in the next three years, the machines making that hum will get bigger and ...
May 26, 2022 Ryan Johnson, CEO of the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant, explains the current process and how the renewal will improve it. May 26, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Premier Scott Moe addresses soaring resource prices
Premier Scott Moe has laid out the possibilities of what the Saskatchewan government could do with a resource revenue windfall but cautioned it would only come later into the year. Oil and potash pric...
May 23, 2022 Premier Scott Moe (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Meili resigning Saskatoon Meewasin seat as well as NDP leadership
Just moments after leaving the Saskatchewan legislature for the last time as an MLA, Ryan Meili said he was "feeling good." Meili announced Thursday morning that he will be resigning his seat as the M...
May 19, 2022
Frustrations run high in dwindling days of the legislative session
Proceedings in the Legislative Assembly were short two MLAs by the end of the day on Wednesday after they were kicked out during the proceedings. Emotions were running high as things moved into Questi...
May 19, 2022 NDP MLA Doyle Vermette. May 18, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Legislature security bill passes after contentious slog
Bill 70, which has taken up a lot of room in debates and a lot of air in the Legislative Building over the past session, has finally passed and is expected to be given royal assent on Thursday. The bi...
May 18, 2022 Minister of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety Christine Tell. (980 CJME file photo)
Families watch as suicide prevention committee voted down
Jude Ratt was disappointed and angry after watching the Saskatchewan government decline to strike a bipartisan special committee of the Legislature with the NDP on the mental health crisis and addicti...
May 18, 2022 Frannie and Jude Ratt (l to r) lost their niece and daughter to suicide and support the NDP's call for a committee to find solutions to the province's suicide problem. May 17, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Public drinking bill in Saskatchewan adjourned
Drinkers will have to keep a cork in it in parks in Saskatchewan for a while longer. On Tuesday afternoon, debate was adjourned on Bill 86, which would have allowed municipalities to decide for themse...
May 17, 2022
SAID recipients calling to keep their pensions
James MacLachlan has myotonic dystrophy and worked at SARCAN for 20 years, paying all his taxes and -- with the help of savings from his late mother -- paying for his care too. But MacLachlan got olde...
May 17, 2022 Barb Sambasivam speaks for her brother, James MacLachlan, who is a SAID recipient and who she said isn't getting enough to live on. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Liquor legislation introduced in Sask., but likely won't pass
The Saskatchewan government is looking to give municipalities power over whether people can crack a beer in the park, while the Saskatchewan NDP is telling the government to pump the brakes. On Monday...
May 16, 2022 Minister Responsible for SLGA Jim Reiter on May 16, 2022. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
OPINION
Murray Wood: Signs of spring appearing in Saskatchewan
Murray Wood says signs of spring were all over the place on the weekend, even though the forecast remains wintery for th...
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TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 8
On today's show, Evan gets the latest on global tensions with Iran and the U.S., discusses Riversdale safety concerns an...