Sarah Mills: Ending door-to-door is the future for Canada Post
Rural Sask. has picked up mail from shared mailboxes for decades. Now, it will be the same in some parts of in Regina an...
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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
Tochor announces bid for federal Conservative nomination
Fresh off resigning from his position as speaker of the Saskatchewan legislature, Corey Tochor announced Monday that he plans to make the jump to federal politics. Tochor held an event in Saskatoon to...
Jan 08, 2018 Corey Tochor resigned his position as Speaker at the Saskatchewan legislature Jan. 5, 2018. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
Saskatoon MLA resigns as speaker, considers federal run
Corey Tochor has resigned as Speaker of the Saskatchewan legislature in order to consider a run at federal politics. Notably, if he decides to go ahead, Tochor would be seeking the federal Conservativ...
Jan 05, 2018 Corey Tochor resigned his position as Speaker at the Saskatchewan legislature Jan. 5, 2018. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
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Evan Bray: What would 'associate' EU membership mean for Canada?
There's been a lot of talk about Canada possibly becoming an "associate member" of the European Union. Evan Br...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, Sept. 18
On Friday's show, Evan discusses Canada's nuclear future with Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel. Plus, marking 10 years of harm redu...