Murray Wood: The new phone books are here!
Once a Steve Martin catchphrase, Murray Wood says physical phone books are rapidly becoming relics of another age, but t...
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Several Regina parking spots transform into mini parks
From ping pong tables to puppies; there weren't just cars filing parking stalls around the Queen City Friday. Regina joined hundreds of other cities around the globe in PARK(ing) Day 2018, which saw t...
Sep 21, 2018 Lawn chairs, games and a ping pong table fill a handful of metered parking spots along Hamilton Street in downtown Regina on Sept. 21, 2018. (Jessie Anton/980 CJME)
Regina survey on homelessness offers insight into barriers
Stories of high rental costs, substance abuse, addictions and domestic violence are providing a snapshot picture of homelessness in Regina. This week, the YMCA released the full report on a point in t...
Sep 21, 2018 Point-in-time Homelessness Count event at Mamaweyatin centre April 2018. (Blair Roberts YMCA/Submitted)
SLGA minister says cost of retail liquor permit up to seller
Where you buy liquor in Saskatchewan may change in a few weeks. On Oct. 8, a two-year moratorium on the sale of liquor retail store permits (RSP) will end in the province. With that comes a new caveat...
Sep 21, 2018 (980 CJME file photo)
‘Unfair:’ union responds to Crown executives’ pay increases
The Saskatchewan Government Employees Union (SGEU) is calling foul after learning Crown Corporation CEOs made more money last year at the same time the province was trying to cut workers' wages. In 20...
Sep 21, 2018
Deadly crash between truck, semi near Broadview
One man is dead after the pick-up truck he was driving collided with a semi carrying gravel on a grid road in the RM of Elcapo in the Broadview area. The crash occurred around 4 p.m. Thursday with Bro...
Sep 21, 2018
Trump drops civil tone, slams Kavanaugh accuser credibility
WASHINGTON - Abandoning his previous restraint, President Donald Trump challenged the credibility of the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, declaring that if the all...
Sep 21, 2018
Feds launching review of oil tanker traffic in bid to renew pipeline approval
OTTAWA - The National Energy Board has less than six months to redo its environmental review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, this time taking into account the impact of additional oil tanker...
Sep 21, 2018
Despite progress, threat of 232 tariffs dominates NAFTA negotiations
WASHINGTON - Despite the eye-popping figures thrown around in the NAFTA conversation - $2 billion in daily trade, 18 million autos built each year, hundreds of thousands of jobs in the U.S. - one numb...
Sep 21, 2018
'Air of excitement:' Rams ready for Huskies Sask. showdown
It will be an all-Saskatchewan U Sports showdown on the football field Friday night in Saskatoon. The University of Regina Rams are taking the short trip up the highway to meet the University of Saska...
Sep 21, 2018 University of Regina Rams offensive lineman Matt Degelman makes a block against the UBC Thunderbirds on Sept. 14, 2018. (Piper Sports Photography)
Arbitrator awards rural Canada Post carriers pay hike of up to 25 per cent
OTTAWA - Rural and suburban postal workers across Canada celebrated Thursday after an arbitrator ordered Canada Post to pay them more - much more - as part of a long-awaited pay equity decision. For a...
Sep 20, 2018
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Sarah Mills: It's time to embrace 24 Sussex Drive
The home of Canada's prime minister is steeped in history and shouldn't be left in disrepair. Sarah Mills says the desig...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, June 29
Evan welcomes the leader of the federal Conservatives, Pierre Poilievre, talks about the health of Saskatchewan Crown co...