Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
Author Archives: Lisa Schick
Composter happy about new project from city
Maple Wood Crescent in northwest Regina is one of the few dozen areas of the city where green bins are present at every house. The crescent was part of the pilot project for the City of Regina's curbs...
Dec 07, 2021 (980 CJME)
Northern leader asking for help in midst of suicide crisis
While the pandemic has been hard for many people, in northern Saskatchewan -- where they already had been dealing with a suicide and addictions crisis -- the situation surrounding COVID-19 has only ma...
Dec 06, 2021 Devin Bernatchez, councillor for the Lac La Ronge Indian Band for the community of Sucker River, north of La Ronge. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
APAS and provincial ministers face off over mid-year financials
The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) and the province's finance and agriculture ministers are at odds over Saskatchewan's mid-year financial report, released earlier this week...
Dec 01, 2021 Finance Minister Donna Harpauer. Nov. 29, 2021 (980 CJME)
Review gets green light from Regina's exec committee, could save more than $17M
An efficiency review for the City of Regina has passed its latest hurdle and could soon be on the way to saving administration millions of dollars every year. On Wednesday, all nine of the councillors...
Dec 01, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Federated Co-op to buy 181 Husky properties in Western Canada
Part brand expansion, part refinery use and part planning for the future -- Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) is looking to spend $264 million to buy 181 Husky gas bars, car washes and convenience...
Nov 30, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Riders' Purifoy spent night with police after West semifinal
Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson said the CFL team was embarrassed Tuesday after announcing that safety Loucheiz Purifoy was arrested, though not charged, on Sunday night. "It shoul...
Nov 30, 2021 Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson (left) and safety Loucheiz Purifoy on Nov. 30, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'Sicker and sicker every day': Sask. woman pushes gov't for help as she waits on surgery
Nearly as long as Saskatchewan has been dealing with the pandemic, Stephanie Brad has been waiting for surgery to get her bladder removed. "I'm getting sicker and sicker every day," said Brad. She and...
Nov 30, 2021 Stephanie Brad holds a picture of her four daughters, who she says have been seriously affected by her illness. Brad has been waiting for a bladder surgery that was postponed in April 2020 then again in October 2021 due to COVID pressures on the healthcare system. She was brought to the legislative building by the Sask. NDP. Nov. 29 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatoon vaccine docs giving kids an extra thanks, and extra stickers
Kids in Saskatoon who get their COVID-19 vaccines are getting a little superhero help, courtesy of local doctors. Doctors in the area have come together to create new stickers, colouring pages, poster...
Nov 26, 2021 (Caitlin Grant/Twitter)
Finn family to finally get health-care money from province
After more than a year of fighting with Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health, the Finn family will now be reimbursed for the hundreds of thousands of dollars they spent on lifesaving health care for thei...
Nov 24, 2021 Conner Finn, whose parents are calling on the provincial government to reverse its decision not to help pay for his treatment for Adrenoleukodrystrophy (ALD). (Submitted)
Anti-vaccine protest fills sidewalk outside school division office
About 150 people filled the sidewalk outside the Regina Public School Division offices on Tuesday evening. The protesters waved at honking cars and pumped up signs reading things like "no kill shot" a...
Nov 23, 2021 Around 150 people showed up to a protest against COVID-19 vaccination and vaccinations for kids outside the Regina Public School board office on Nov. 23, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
NOW TRENDING
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Tiger Woods should know better after another DUI case
Sarah Mills says Tiger Woods could easily pay for a car service, and he should also have an NDA to keep his business his...
LATEST WEATHER
TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 2
On today's show, Evan asks whether you really relax when you have time off, the economic impact of the industrial carbon...