Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look back at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list ...
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Visitor spending in Regina jumps 24 per cent, on track to surpass pre-pandemic levels
Last year brought in the most visitor dollars to Regina since before the pandemic. Data from Tourism Regina shows that visitor spending increased by 24 per cent between January and October in 2024, co...
Jan 25, 2025 Flags flapping in the wind at the Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME files)
Canada Post gets $1-billion loan from federal government amid financial struggles
OTTAWA - The federal government is providing a $1-billion loan to Canada Post to help the Crown corporation continue operating amid "significant financial challenges." Canada Post says it was notified...
Jan 24, 2025 The Canada Post logo is seen on the outside the company's Pacific Processing Centre in Richmond, B.C., on Thursday June 1, 2017. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
RCMP union says Saskatchewan, Manitoba face severe staffing stresses
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA - The union representing front-line Mounties says it has not seen an internal RCMP memo calling for short-term staff transfers to Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but says those p...
Jan 24, 2025
Regina Public Schools sees change rooms outcome as a positive
The head of Regina Public Schools is giving the decision to let school divisions create their own change room policies a thumbs-up. On Thursday, the province announced it is requiring divisions to cre...
Jan 24, 2025 The Regina Public School Division is one of many in the province which already had its own policy around who can use which washrooms and changerooms.
Former chief negotiator says Alberta undermining Canada in tariff talks
OTTAWA - Ottawa's former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul says Alberta is undermining Canada's attempts to prevent the U.S. from levying damaging tariffs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rallied...
Jan 24, 2025
'Better pray we get elected': Doug Ford says he will call snap Ontario election
Ontario Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election Wednesday, seeking an even larger majority than his current government holds and using the threat of 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Don...
Jan 24, 2025
Student Alfred Okyere stabbed to death just months after arriving in Saskatoon
Alfred Okyere recently moved from Ghana to Saskatoon as an international student. But less than four months after arriving in the city, the 23-year-old was stabbed to death at his part-time job, and h...
Jan 24, 2025
Meet Poppy, an oil spill-sniffing dog and a scientific trailblazer
Poppy, a six-year-old springer spaniel with floppy brown ears and a tail that never seems to stop wagging, is by all accounts a very good dog. Her white, brown speckled nose has also made her somethin...
Jan 24, 2025
'It's a people place': Business owner optimistic about Scarth Street renewal
After running a business on Scarth Street for more than 50 years, Ron Dorey is excited to see its revitalization go through. The owner of Cornwall Optical has seen the area go through numerous transfo...
Jan 24, 2025 Ron Dorey, owner of the Cornwall Optical on 1841 Scarth St. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
'Canada is not for sale' hat offers tough lesson in domestic manufacturing
TORONTO - The weeks since Liam Mooney and Emma Cochrane dreamt up a viral hat meant to fend off any notion that Canada will be taken over by the U.S. has been more of a crash course in manufacturing t...
Jan 24, 2025
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Volunteers are the beating heart of Saskatchewan
There are so many people who step up for organizations in our province, creating events and moments that wouldn't happen...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, June 19
**WITH GUEST HOST BRENT LOUCKS 8:30 - After four months, the U.S. and Iran seemed closer than ever to an agreement, an M...