Murray Wood: Reflections on a Rider loss that should have been a win.
If bad teams find a way to lose and good teams find a way to win, Murray Wood wonders why a good team sometimes finds a ...
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'Staying alive is an obsession:' Family of survivors reflect on residential schools
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press The weeds of residential schools are tangled throughout the family tree of Clayton Episkenew and many other Indigenous people in Canada. "I have come a lo...
Jun 26, 2021
Buffalo Pound Provincial Park to get new visitor centre
Buffalo Pound Provincial Park is turning an old ski chalet into a new visitor centre. This summer, Regina-based Westridge Construction Ltd., is to begin converting the chalet -- which originally was b...
Jun 25, 2021 (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
'Every day was hell on earth': Marieval survivor shares his story
For Marieval Indian Residential School survivor Robert Kakakaway, every day at the school was a nightmare. "From Day 1 until my final day there on June 30, 1966, every day was hell on earth, that's wh...
Jun 25, 2021 Robert Kakakaway.
Latest COVID update June 25: 56 new cases, 609 active cases
The number of cases of the Delta variant of concern of COVID-19 is continuing to climb in Saskatchewan. In its daily update Friday, the Ministry of Health said 178 cases of that variant had been ident...
Jun 25, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Sask. RCMP officer suspended, charged after pepper spray incident
A Carlyle RCMP officer is facing one charge of assault with a weapon after a complaint made about a vehicle stop and arrest in Arcola last October. On Oct. 31, RCMP officers from the Carlyle detachmen...
Jun 25, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Chief Delorme says 'reset' needed on reconciliation journey
Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme was not expecting the number of unmarked graves on the former Marieval Indian Residential School site to be as high as 751. The search involved the use of g...
Jun 25, 2021 (Cowessess First Nation/Submitted)
Death toll in Florida collapse rises to 4; 159 still missing
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) - About 160 people were still unaccounted for Friday after an oceanside condominium building collapsed into a smoldering pile of rubble, and searchers using both big machines and t...
Jun 25, 2021
Religious group says it will release residential school records
The Catholic religious community that operated residential schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia where hundreds of unmarked graves have been found says it will disclose all historical documents...
Jun 25, 2021 A ground-penetrating radar is used to record hits of what are believed to be 751 unmarked graves near the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, FSIN
SaskTel increases investment in fibre optic broadband technology
SaskTel is doubling its efforts to put fibre optic broadband technology into rural Saskatchewan. The Crown corporation announced Friday it was putting $50 million into its Rural Fibre Initiative, incr...
Jun 25, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Positive ID of remains ends missing person case after 23 years
A missing person case in Regina is over after 23 years. In a media release Friday, the Regina Police Service said human remains discovered Dec. 3 have been identified as those of Patrick Cyril Thauber...
Jun 25, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
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Sarah Mills: Europe's heatwave is revealing hidden history
Sarah Mills says historically low river and reservoir levels due to a heat wave in Europe are exposing long submerged ar...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, August 17
On Monday's show, guest host Brent Loucks got an update on tariffs in Canada, talked about rural dentistry, a petition c...