Murray Wood: A call to prayer results in a call to controversy
Murray Wood says a Regina mosque's weekly call to prayer is creating a real-life Venn diagram of religious freedom, back...
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Feds reveal details of $35M fund to help make farms safer in COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says some Canadian farmers can now apply for emergency funding to protect their workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will subsidize farms...
Oct 05, 2020
Fire prevention week focuses on kitchen safety
Fire prevention week kicked off on Sunday in Regina. This year's theme, Serve Up Fire Safety in the Kitchen, encourages safe kitchen practices. Cooking has been the leading cause of fires in Regina fo...
Oct 05, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Greens slam other parties for refusing to show ‘leader’s courtesy’ to Annamie Paul
OTTAWA - Former Green leader Elizabeth May slammed the New Democrats on Monday for refusing to withdraw their candidate in a coming byelection, arguing doing so would allow the first Black woman elect...
Oct 05, 2020 New Green Party Leader Annamie Paul celebrates after speaking at the leadership announcement in Ottawa on Oct. 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
UPDATE: Charges laid after robbery on Broad Street
A 33-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a robbery in Regina on Saturday. At about 8:35 p.m., officers responded to a report of a robbery at a business in the 500 block of Broad Street. ...
Oct 05, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Trump leaves hospital, declares ‘I feel good’
BETHESDA, Md. - Stepping gingerly, President Donald Trump walked out the military hospital Monday night where he has been receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19, immediately igniting a ...
Oct 05, 2020
Campaigning for two: Aleana Young door-knocking while eight months pregnant
Door-knocking can be one of the most gruelling parts of a political campaign -- walking several kilometres a day, talking to people on the issues and trying to bring them to your side. But those tasks...
Oct 05, 2020 Aleana Young, NDP candidate for Regina University. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Buffalo Party pushing for referendum, Saskatchewan independence
The Buffalo Party is hoping to have a big impact on the provincial election and the future of Canada. It's the first time the party has run. Its members describe themselves as a western independence p...
Oct 05, 2020 (Wade Sira/Facebook)
Five new COVID-19 cases, no new recoveries announced Sunday
As of Sunday, the province has announced five new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. The new cases were announced in the Saskatoon (1), central-east (1), Regina (1) and southeast (2) regions. There ar...
Oct 04, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
No major surprises to come in election results: political scientist
The writ has been dropped and for the next four weeks or so the governing will stop and the campaigning will kick into high gear. On election night, Joe Garcea doesn't think there will be any major su...
Oct 04, 2020
'I don't want to go through this ever in my life again,' LTC resident tells inquiry
One by one, residents of Ontario's long-term care homes described the emotional devastation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown to an independent inquiry - and implored the governments to address isolatio...
Oct 04, 2020 A man looks out the window at the Camilla Care Community centre overlooking crosses marking the deaths of multiple people that occured during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ont., on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. One by one, Ontario long-term care residents explained the emotional devastation caused by the lockdown to an independent inquiry earlier this week, and implored the powers that be to address isolation before the second wave of COVID-19 crashes down. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Sarah Mills: It is time for Gianni Infantino to go
Sarah Mills says the current FIFA president's secret plans to sell off the World Cup and accusations of blackmail agains...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, August 5
On Wednesday's show, Evan talked about the removal of benches in Saskatoon, the federal government's firearm buyback pro...