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Sask. NDP launches petition calling on Scott Moe to suspend gas tax
To help with the cost of living crisis, the Saskatchewan NDP is launching a petition calling on Premier Scott Moe to suspend the provincial gas tax for at least six months. At a media event Friday, ND...
Jan 19, 2024 NDP Leader Carla Beck and NDP critic Trent Wotherspoon called for a temporary suspension of the provincial gas tax on Friday. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
From Experience Regina to revitalization: Regina's mayor looks back and ahead
The first days of the year are often a time for looking back at what 2023 brought, and looking ahead to the coming 12 months. For Regina Mayor Sandra Masters, 2023 held a long list of highlights. She ...
Jan 05, 2024 Regina Mayor Sandra Masters says 2023 had its share of highs and lows. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Working to the election, NDP's Carla Beck looks back and ahead
Taking stock of 2023, Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck hones in on the byelections that were held in the Regina area in the summer. The NDP walked away with two new seats out of the three byelection...
Jan 02, 2024
'Awful:' Sask. NDP says deficit shouldn't have been a surprise
The Saskatchewan NDP pointed to the provincial government's mid-year financial report on Monday, calling it evidence of the government's awful fiscal management, awful projections, and propensity to w...
Nov 28, 2023 Sask. NDP Finance critic Trent Wotherspoon said if the provincial government had been working more collaboratively with industry and watching and talking with producers more closely, it would have been able ot project this year's budget better. Nov. 27, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
NDP MLA apologizes for liking controversial social media post
A member of the Saskatchewan NDP has issued an apology for liking a social media post that some view as antisemitic. In a statement released Monday, Saskatoon University MLA Jennifer Bowes said she ne...
Nov 27, 2023 NDP MLA Jennifer Bowes said in a written apology Monday that she didn't see all the photos and videos in the social media post, including the ones that may have been viewed as antisemitic. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Minister gives some answers around hiked motel bill
Saskatchewan's minister of social services is providing some answers after it was revealed Wednesday that a Regina motel, owned by a Sask. Party MLA, hiked its room rate when the ministry took over a ...
Nov 16, 2023 Social Services Minister Gene Makowsky explains that the ministry tries to get a good deal on hotel rooms but also has to balance people's need for shelter. Nov. 15, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Overcrowding at Saskatoon hospital leads to fire code issues
So many people and patients were recently set up in the hallways at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon that the fire department was called in over fire code issues. According to a statement from Assista...
Nov 09, 2023 Crowding at St. Paul's Hospital resulted in a call to the fire department this week. (650 CKOM file photo)
Affordability, home ownership likely in the cards for throne speech
On Wednesday afternoon, the Saskatchewan Party government will lay out its priorities in what will likely be the last Speech from the Throne before next fall's expected provincial election. Now that t...
Oct 25, 2023 Premier Scott Moe dropped a few hints about Wednesday's throne speech in an interview with John Gormley. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Regina Public Schools responds after minister places blame for pronoun policy
Throughout the life of the provincial government's pronoun policy, the government has been slowly talking more about what prompted it - along with the other two education policies around sex education...
Oct 17, 2023 Sask. Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill. Oct 12, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Regina pastor explains support for trans youths, opposition to pronoun policy
Through the first week of the recalled sitting in the Saskatchewan legislature, members of the public have been taking seats in the gallery expressly to show their opposition to the province's pronoun...
Oct 13, 2023 A demonstrator shows support for the trans community during a demonstration in Regina opposing the government's pronoun and name-change policies. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...