Sarah Mills: Investigation into security at Canada's major airports gives pause for thought
Sarah Mills says a W5 investigation into alleged violence, trafficking and organized crime at Canada's busiest airport s...
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Customers still showing some love to Regina sex shop during pandemic
One of Regina's most popular sex shops has been seeing the good and bad of people being forced to stay at home. Lisa Phillipson is the manager at Industrial Luv. She said at the beginning of March whe...
Apr 17, 2020 (Google Maps)
Freeze carbon tax, delay new climate regs during virus crisis, oil lobby asks
OTTAWA - Canada's oil and gas producers have asked the federal government to freeze the carbon tax and delay new climate change regulations while the industry weathers the storm of COVID-19. In a lett...
Apr 17, 2020
RV owners helping essential workers self-isolate, protect their family members
The only thing Rick Siewierski finds harder than protecting himself from COVID-19 is keeping his pregnant wife safe from the virus too. The Ontario paramedic is positive he has been exposed to the hig...
Apr 17, 2020 Paramedic Rick Siewierski, centre, poses for a photo with his wife Mariam Siewierski, left, and Al Robinson of Great Canadian RV near Orillia, Ont. in this recent handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Stacey Robinson
White Bear resort off limits to some cottage owners until June
The Saskatchewan government doesn’t want people travelling to cabins to practise physical distancing during COVID-19 and neither does the White Bear First Nation. The First Nation east of Weybur...
Apr 17, 2020
Life during COVID-19: Grocery stores make big changes to keep safe
Things are quite a bit different now at Dad's Organic Market in Regina than they were even two months ago. "We have to clean everything every morning when we come in. Everything gets wiped down, all t...
Apr 17, 2020 Meghan Rice, who works at Dad's Organic Market in Regina, says she makes sure to keep herself and her workspace clean so she's not worried about dealing with customers. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Dozens of Saskatchewan nurses receive emergency licences to help with COVID-19 fight
In the last several weeks, at least 60 non-practising or retired nurses have received their emergency licences, according to the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association's executive director, Cindy ...
Apr 17, 2020
Co-op refinery reduces production due to low demand, market conditions
The self-isolation measures being taken by Canadians due to COVID-19 are having an impact on the Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina. On Thursday, the refinery issued a media release saying it was reduci...
Apr 16, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Now's not the time to reopen economy or relax physical distancing measures: SUN
The analogy Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) president Tracy Zambory describes is simple: You wouldn't go skating on a pond that has just started to freeze over or you'll fall through. You need to w...
Apr 16, 2020
Northern leaders angry, say a nurse brought COVID-19 to Stony Rapids
For the second time during this pandemic in Saskatchewan, COVID-19 was unknowingly spread to a remote and vulnerable community by one of the province’s health care workers. On Friday, the northe...
Apr 16, 2020
Farm group calls on Ottawa to help save food sector
By Nigel Maxwell The federal government is being called upon to create an emergency fund to assist farmers and agriculture-related businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Federation of Agri...
Apr 16, 2020
OPINION
Murray Wood: The most charming words kids say are usually the wrong ones
Kids mispronounce the funniest things. And Murray Wood thinks that sometimes, parents shouldn't rush to fix them.
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, May 22
On Friday's show, Evan speaks with a Saskatchewan runner who is planning to run the vertical length of Saskatchewan (abo...