Murray Wood: April is the most frustrating month on the prairies
As much of Saskatchewan deals with another spring snowstorm, Murray Wood says we're all asking the same question: This i...
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Police seeking suspect in bear spray attack in Harbour Landing
Regina police are investigating after somebody was hit with bear spray at business in Harbour Landing. It happened Friday night at about 8:20 p.m. The business was the Wal-Mart Supercentre in the 4500...
Jun 13, 2020 (Kevin Martel/980 CJME)
‘Stop the pain,’ a brother of George Floyd tells Congress
WASHINGTON - Philonise Floyd challenged Congress on Wednesday to "stop the pain" as lawmakers consider a sweeping law enforcement overhaul, so his brother George won't be just "another name" on a grow...
Jun 10, 2020
Experts say not enough proof expensive body cameras will reduce police violence
Ottawa is considering outfitting Canadian police with cameras following protests against violence by some officers, but experts say there is not enough proof the expensive technology is effective. "Th...
Jun 09, 2020 Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
N.B. chiefs seek justice system review after police shooting of Indigenous woman
FREDERICTON - The chiefs of a coalition of Maliseet First Nations are calling for an independent probe of the New Brunswick justice system after a fatal police shooting of a 26-year-old Indigenous wom...
Jun 06, 2020 Chantel Moore is shown in this undated photo posted on a GoFundMe memorial page, Support for family of Chantel Moore. A 26-year-old Indigenous woman from British Columbia has been shot and killed by police in northwestern New Brunswick. First Nations groups identified the woman as Chantel Moore. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, GoFundMe *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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.
THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE/Adrian Wyld
N.S. police received warnings in 2011 about man who would become mass killer
HALIFAX - A newly released document reveals that in May 2011 police were told Gabriel Wortman - the Nova Scotia man who would later kill 22 people in a shooting rampage - wanted to "kill a cop" and wa...
May 29, 2020
Police across US speak out against Minneapolis custody death
LOS ANGELES - Murder. Brutality. Reprehensible. Indefensible. Police nationwide, in unequivocal and unprecedented language, have condemned the actions of Minneapolis police in the custody death of a h...
May 29, 2020
Violent protests rock Minneapolis for second straight night
MINNEAPOLIS - Violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody rocked a Minneapolis neighbourhood for a second straight night as angry crowds looted stores, set fires and left a path o...
May 28, 2020 (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP)
Regina police searching for two men after shots fired in business parking lot
Regina police are searching for two men involved in an armed standoff on 5th Avenue near Argyle Street on Saturday morning. They were called at about 8:30 a.m. after residents reported what they belie...
May 03, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Regina police arrest Thorne for being unlawfully at large
Regina police arrested Jason Paul Thorne on Sunday afternoon, two days after the convicted sex offender deemed a high risk to reoffend was reported unlawfully at large. Police said Thorne, 43, left th...
Mar 30, 2020 Regina police say that convicted sex offender Jason Thorne is a high risk to reoffend sexually. (Photo submitted by Regina Police Service)
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Sarah Mills: A U.S. jury says Live Nation and Ticketmaster's monopoly hurt fans
An appeal is already underway, but Sarah Mills says the court case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster has exposed what...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 16
Evan catches up on the latest happening in Ottawa, checks in on safety in downtown Saskatoon and discusses a three-strik...