Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Regina Catholic Schools end food donation program for the summer
The Regina Catholic School Board celebrated two months of providing food for families in need on Tuesday. Since May, they've handed out hampers of food twice a month. They've given more than 200 packa...
Jun 16, 2020 Food ready to be packaged for families at Archbishop M.C. O'Neill Catholic High School on June 16, 2020.
(Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
44% of closed businesses in Saskatchewan might never open
Saskatchewan is above the national average of 32 per cent when it comes to business owners being uncertain about whether they will be able to reopen or not. According to the Saskatoon Chamber of Comme...
Jun 16, 2020
Canada, U.S. confirm plan to extend border restrictions by another 30 days
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and the United States will continue to limit non-essential travel between the two countries until at least July 21. Despite mounting pressure from bu...
Jun 16, 2020
$500-a-week COVID-19 benefit to be extended eight weeks: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government’s signature benefit for people whose jobs have vanished amid the COVID-19 pandemic will be extended by eight weeks. The Canada Emergenc...
Jun 16, 2020
U of R athlete losing last season after Canada West pandemic cancellation
Cameron Cross may not have the chance to play his last season of university football. The University of Regina (U of R) Rams defensive lineman says the cancellation of the upcoming 2020-21 football se...
Jun 16, 2020 Rams defensive lineman Cameron Cross.
(Photo credit/Munz Media)
STF president disappointed no extra money in Sask. budget for COVID-19 related school safety measures
As the provincial government announced its full 2020-21 budget, Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation President Patrick Maze said he was not only surprised, but disappointed it didn't specifically contain...
Jun 16, 2020 Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Patrick Maze. (File photo by Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Long lineups on first day of SARCAN reopening
SARCAN reopened its doors Monday morning, accepting recyclables for the first time since late March, when facilities were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The depot on Rochdale Boulevard in Regina...
Jun 15, 2020 SARCAN closed its doors March 21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the first day of reopening, customers lined up to recycle the cans, bottles and drink containers they accumulated. (980 CJME file photo)
After weeks of zero cases, Clearwater River Dene Nation dealing with second COVID-19 spike
The chief of the Clearwater River Dene Nation says testing is ramping up in the small northern community after over a dozen new COVID-19 cases were detected over the weekend. After an extended lockdow...
Jun 15, 2020
No plans for another lockdown in Sask. due to COVID-19, but curve must stay flat: Chief medical health officer
Saskatchewan reported 18 new cases of COVID-19 Monday and Dr. Saqib Shahab, Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer, says this is a reminder that the virus is still here and we shouldn’...
Jun 15, 2020
NDP says Sask. budget lacks a recovery plan
The Saskatchewan NDP says the budget is nothing more than a 'pre-election placeholder' that does nothing to show how the government intends to get the province back on track from the COVID-19 pandemic...
Jun 15, 2020 Sask. NDP Leader Ryan Meili is critical of the province's updated 2020-2021 budget, saying it doesn't invest where it should. Jun. 15, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: There are echoes of Brexit in the Albert separation issue
A referendum over whether Alberta should separate from Canada is looming closer, and Sarah Mills says there are similari...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, May 26
Evan discusses the consequences of Alberta's separatism talk, unearths a Saskatchewan gem to visit this summer and meets...