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Jury makes recommendations as JSCN inquest wraps up
After 11 days of testimony and just over a day of jury deliberations, the inquest into the mass murders on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon is over. On Wednesday in Melfort, the six-member ju...
Jan 31, 2024 Pictures of the victims erected at the inquest into the mass murders on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Riders' Rolan Milligan extends contract through 2025
While Rolan Milligan wasn't set to become a free agent in a few days, the Saskatchewan Roughriders want to keep him under contract for even longer. The CFL club announced the 29-year-old defensive bac...
Jan 31, 2024 Defensive back Rolan Milligan has signed a one-year contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
James Smith chief glad the inquest is nearly over
Chief Robert Head has been in and out of the inquest into the murders on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon over the past couple of weeks, but he said Tuesday he was glad the evidence portion w...
Jan 31, 2024 Peter Chapman Band Chief Robert Head is glad the presentation of evidence is done at the inquest. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Moose Jaw MLA facing charges of assault and assault by choking
The MLA for Moose Jaw Wakamow is facing assault charges. On Tuesday, the Government Caucus Office said MLA Greg Lawrence resigned from the Saskatchewan Party caucus. While details weren't given, the o...
Jan 31, 2024
Taste Of Cathedral raises $15K for Cathedral Village Arts Festival
The Cathedral Village Arts Festival tasted success with its latest fundraiser. Between admissions, tasting tickets, silent auction sales and donations, Saturday's Taste Of Cathedral raised just over $...
Jan 31, 2024 The Cathedral Village Arts Festival has been struggling financially due to the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced grants and sponsorships, and rising inflationary costs. (980 CJME file photo)
Camping reservations at provincial parks to open April 1
Campers, rejoice! Reservations for the 2024 camping season at Saskatchewan provincial parks will be accepted starting April 1 for seasonal campsites and on April 2-9 for nightly, Camp-Easy and group c...
Jan 31, 2024 (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
Canada's fertility rate hit all-time low in 2022, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's fertility rate reached an all-time low of 1.33 children per woman in 2022. The federal agency says that's part of a downward trend that began in 2009. Can...
Jan 31, 2024
Weather records fall like dominoes as warm air blankets Sask.
The warm, Pacific air blowing into Saskatchewan is breaking temperature records all over the province. According to Environment Canada, 23 communities set new record highs for Jan. 30 on Tuesday, than...
Jan 31, 2024
'It opened my eyes:' Families reflect on evidence heard at JSCN inquest
Every day of the James Smith Cree Nation inquest, through policy evidence, explanations of autopsies and a recounting of the attacks that left 11 people dead, Joyce Burns has sat in the hearing room w...
Jan 31, 2024 Joyce Burns speaks about the new understand she has from the inquest for the man who attacked her, her husband, and 9 others in Sept 2022, Myles Sanderson. Jan. 30, 2024 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
JSCN families share their hopes for inquest recommendations
By midday on Tuesday, all there was really left to do at the inquest into the killings on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon was to wait. The six jury members had been charged with their duties...
Jan 30, 2024 Those with standing for families in the inquest are looking for recommendations on how to improve things on the James Smith Cree Nation to come out of the inquest. (L to R) Buggy Burns, Chelsey Stonestand, Darryl Burns, Shelley Sanderson, Deborah Burns, Vanessa Burns and Joyce Burns were at the inquest in Melfort. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: Reality TV is not really a break from reality
It's fake, staged and might as well be scripted. Sarah Mills says reality TV is not great entertainment, but we all have...
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