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Former P.A. hockey team manager accused of sexually exploiting minor
A former team manager with the Prince Albert Northern Bears hockey club has been charged with sexual exploitation. According to court documents, Jamie Engen, 38, appeared at Prince Albert Provincial C...
Nov 08, 2019
Saskatchewan veterans to get care packages
A tradition that began in the First World War is being continued in 2019 by a number of groups in Regina. On Thursday, the Provincial Capital Commission joined the Regina Stitchery Guild, the Royal Ca...
Nov 07, 2019 Care packages that are to be distributed to Saskatchewan veterans. (Evan Radford/980 CJME)
Supreme Court case to cost province about $500,000
The Saskatchewan government is set to shell out about half a million dollars for its case against the carbon tax, set to be heard in front of the Supreme Court of Canada. Speaking on Thursday, Justice...
Nov 07, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Liberal winners, losers gather in Ottawa after disappointing election result
OTTAWA - Re-elected, newly elected and defeated Liberal MPs are gathering on Parliament Hill to mull over the disappointing results of the Oct. 21 election and contemplate the best way forward in a ch...
Nov 07, 2019
App being developed to help alleviate trespassing issue
A web application that will connect people seeking access to private land with the owners of the property is getting closer to reality. In March, Premier Scott Moe announced at the Saskatchewan Associ...
Nov 07, 2019 SaskLander co-founders Sauvelm McClain (at the podium) and Aldo Scribante demonstrate how their app works on Nov. 7, 2019. (Andrew Shepherd/980 CJME)
Humboldt Broncos bus crash survivor regains movement in legs
Humboldt Broncos bus crash survivor Ryan Straschnitzki was all smiles Wednesday as he celebrated another milestone in his long recovery. For the first time since the crash left him partially paralyzed...
Nov 07, 2019
Alberta will study already ‘compelling case’ for its exit from CPP: Kenney
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says there's a "compelling case" to be made for his province to exit the half-century-old Canada Pension Plan - an idea sure to face increasing scrutiny over the coming mo...
Nov 07, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
The Battle of the Scheldt: Remembering Canada’s hard-won victory 75 years later
OTTAWA - The first time Tony Pearson came under fire was shortly after he arrived near the front lines in late September 1944. The 19-year-old from Saskatchewan had only days earlier been given a rifl...
Nov 07, 2019 Second World War veteran Tony Pearson, 94, was a young man from Saskatchewan on the frontline of combat in late September 1944 during the Battle of the Scheldt as they pressed the Nazis back east from France. He remembers those days during a portrait session while at home in Nanaimo, B.C., on Nov. 6, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Winnipeg police upgrade charge to murder in stabbing of three-year-old
WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg have upgraded a charge in the death of a three-year-old boy to second-degree murder. Daniel Jensen had been charged with attempted murder after the sleeping boy was stabb...
Nov 07, 2019
Fajardo, Judge, Dickenson named finalists for CFL awards
Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Cody Fajardo will be in Calgary for Grey Cup Week later this month. The 27-year-old quarterback hopes it's to play in a game and not just for the CFL awards ceremo...
Nov 07, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Cody Fajardo. (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders)
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Sarah Mills: England's World Cup disappointment continues
Sarah Mills is accepting that sixty years on, it is not to be, again. But she lived the best experience she could this W...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, July 16
On Thursday's show, guest host Tamara Cherry talks bail reform, grocery prices, missile tests in China, a lack of long-t...