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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Saskatchewan's minimum wage to rise to $11.45 per hour Oct. 1
The minimum wage in Saskatchewan is to increase by 13 cents per hour on Oct. 1 to $11.45 per hour. Even with the increase, Saskatchewan's minimum wage will be the lowest in Canada, according to data c...
Jun 05, 2020
Minister says reckoning on police violence against Indigenous people needed
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Canada needs a reckoning over a repeated and disgusting pattern of police violence against Indigenous people. Miller says he "watched in disgust"...
Jun 05, 2020 Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Marc Miller.
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On sad anniversary, few to mourn the D-Day dead in Normandy
SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France (AP) - At least the dead will always be there. All too many have been, for 76 years since that fateful June 6 on France's Normandy beaches, when Allied troops in 1944 tur...
Jun 05, 2020 D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay poses on a dune overlooking Omaha Beach prior to a memorial ceremony in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, on June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Protests shift to memorializing Floyd amid push for change
ATLANTA - The tenor of the protests set off by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police has taken a turn from the explosive anger that has fuelled the setting of fires, breaking of windows and...
Jun 05, 2020
Trudeau offers $14B to provinces for anti-COVID-19 efforts through rest of year
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he has offered provinces and territories up to $14 billion in new federal transfers if they work with Ottawa on a "safe-restart agreement" that will ...
Jun 05, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Saskatchewan Hockey Association reacts to restrictions being lifted
There appears to be a path opening up for kids and others in the province to return to the ice for hockey. But the general manager of the Saskatchewan Hockey Association says things won't be like they...
Jun 05, 2020
Sask. invests $52M for work on bridges, culverts
More than 150 bridges and culverts are to be repaired or replaced in Saskatchewan in 2020. The provincial government announced Thursday it plans to invest $52 million in the projects. It's part of the...
Jun 04, 2020
Kids have been left out of the reopening plan: NDP
As of Monday, someone in Saskatchewan can get a massage, buy a new outfit and then go out for supper, but some parents are still frustrated because they feel there hasn't been anything in the province...
Jun 04, 2020
RCMP say gunman behind mass killing in Nova Scotia was ‘injustice collector’
HALIFAX - The gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia during a 13-hour rampage was described by police Thursday as an "injustice collector" whose grudges built up over time and eventually exploded ...
Jun 04, 2020
Gun association concerned over how guns are added to ban list
One group is raising concerns over how guns continue to be added to the banned firearms list in Canada without any sort of oversight. Early last month, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government banned...
Jun 04, 2020 (Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association/Facebook)
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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...