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'Warms my heart:' Regina woman encouraged by Black History Month celebrations
Saskatchewan officially recognizes February as Black History Month, but that wasn't always the case. When Pamela Brown first came to the province more than 30 years ago, there weren't any celebrations...
Feb 28, 2024 Pamela Brown is a founding member of the Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum. (Pamela Brown/Submitted)
'Beautiful landscape': Waskesiu the site of two feature films
By Nolan Kowal It's not exactly Hollywood, but it's as close as Saskatchewan has to a perfect backdrop for a movie. The picturesque hamlet of Waskesiu will be the site of two movie sets in the coming ...
Feb 28, 2024 (Waskesiu/Submitted)
Sask. performed record number of surgeries between April and December
Saskatchewan cut significantly into its surgical backlog in the first nine months of the fiscal year. In a media release Tuesday, the provincial government said 71,850 surgical procedures were done be...
Feb 27, 2024 Saskatchewan performed 6,000 more surgeries in the first nine months of the fiscal year than it did in the same time frame in 2022. (ophthalmology muh)
Extreme cold warnings issued for areas across Saskatchewan
Winter storm and snowfall warnings that were in place for areas of Saskatchewan were lifted Monday ... and replaced by extreme cold warnings. Just after 3:30 p.m., Environment and Climate Change Canad...
Feb 26, 2024 The extreme cold warnings were issued Monday afternoon. They cover areas in the far north and in the central part of the province, including Saskatoon. (980 CJME file photo)
TeleMiracle 48 raises more than $6 million
Another year of the TeleMiracle telethon has wrapped up and this year's total surpasses last year's. The total for the 2024 event was $6,112,717, up from $5,519,229 the previous year. TeleMiracle has ...
Feb 25, 2024
Sask. packs nearly 21,000 gifts for worldwide Christmas campaign
Saskatchewan residents helped kids around the world a little bit more this holiday season. Samaritan's Purse Canada has shared its annual breakdown of shoeboxes packed by each province during its Oper...
Feb 25, 2024
STF reveals more sanctions to take place Wednesday across Sask.
The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation is extending its sanctions against the Saskatchewan government into Wednesday. On Friday, the federation announced that teachers in some divisions would withdraw ...
Feb 25, 2024 It will be the third straight day that teachers are to withdraw supervision of extracurricular activities and lunch hours around the province. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan teachers announce more withdrawals for Tuesday
The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation has announced another round of strike action. On Saturday, teachers gave notice of another one-day sanction that will include a rotating strike, withdrawal of noo...
Feb 24, 2024
Displaced Ukrainians in Regina reflect on two years of war with Russia
A yellow and blue flag fluttered in the breeze outside of Regina City Hall on Friday. The Queen City raised the Ukrainian flag to commemorate the two-year anniversary Saturday of Russia's invasion of ...
Feb 23, 2024 The City of Regina raised a Ukrainian flag to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
Province to foot the bill for mandatory Saskatchewan flags at schools
Some of the details are becoming more clear after the provincial government made a change to flag requirements at schools. In the fall, included in the Parents' Bill of Rights -- which made the pronou...
Feb 23, 2024 It appears the provincial government is going to bear the cost of its legislative change around flags at schools from last fall. (980 CJME file photo)
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