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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Sask. Party leadership candidate profile: Ken Cheveldayoff
Ken Cheveldayoff looks like what one might expect a politician to be. His hair is neat and styled, he's always clean shaven and typically he'll be wearing a suit or an outfit best described as busines...
Jan 23, 2018 Saskatchewan Party leadership hopeful Ken Cheveldayoff speaks at a public event in Melfort. (Tyler Marr/paNOW Staff)
Plate fight is over: Saskatchewan ends ban on Alberta plates at its job sites
EDMONTON - The licence plate fight between Saskatchewan and Alberta is over. An Alberta government spokesman says Saskatchewan informed them by letter today it is rescinding its ban on vehicles with A...
Jan 22, 2018
Sask. Party leadership candidate profile: Scott Moe
It would likely be no surprise to anyone that Saskatchewan Party leadership candidate Scott Moe is rooted in the prairies. But once a year he can be found glued to the TV for Discovery channel's annua...
Jan 22, 2018 Rosthern-Shellbrook MLA Scott Moe announces his bid to run for Saskatchewan Party leadership in Saskatoon on Sept. 1, 2017. (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Cheveldayoff raised most money in Sask. Party leadership race
If the Saskatchewan Party leadership race was decided by campaign money raised, Ken Cheveldayoff would come out on top. The Saskatoon MLA raised $276,547 throughout the entire campaign that began in t...
Jan 17, 2018 (From left to right): Sask. Party leadership candidates Scott Moe, Alanna Koch, Tina Beaudry-Mellor, Gord Wyant and Ken Cheveldayoff took the stage at the party's convention in Saskatoon on Nov. 4, 2017. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Sask. premier continuing stance against federal carbon tax
The premier's mind will not be changed even though the federal government seems determined to sidestep him. The Trudeau government has released a 236-draft bill to impose its federal carbon tax on pro...
Jan 17, 2018
Ottawa could offer carbon rebates directly to residents in holdout provinces
OTTAWA - The federal government is giving itself the legal wiggle room to give carbon tax rebate cheques directly to people in those provinces that refuse to impose a carbon tax of their own. A draft ...
Jan 16, 2018
Alberta, Saskatchewan to meet on licence plate dispute, but can’t agree on site
EDMONTON - Alberta and Saskatchewan have a date for a meeting to discuss their trade issues, but Alberta says it will come too late to resolve a standoff over licence plates. Alberta Economic Developm...
Jan 16, 2018
Canada’s tough guy move at WTO will gain U.S. respect, says trade minister
LONDON, Ont. - The Trudeau government appears to have adopted a good-cop, bad-cop strategy for saving NAFTA - coming up with some "creative" new proposals in response to unpalatable U.S. demands while...
Jan 11, 2018 Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Trudeau tells town hall heckler that he, too, is angry about Khadr’s settlement
HAMILTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a woman heckling him about Omar Khadr during a town hall Wednesday in Hamilton that he, too, is angry about the $10.5 million his government paid last sum...
Jan 11, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces difficult questions at town hall in Halifax
HALIFAX - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced difficult questions from the crowd at a town hall in the Halifax area Tuesday, including from a member of the navy who has ALS and from the mother of a bo...
Jan 10, 2018
OPINION
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...