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Province creates safe access zones for health-care workers, patients
Aggressive protests around Saskatchewan hospitals could soon be a thing of past, for a while anyway. On Wednesday, the government introduced The Public Health (Safe Access to Hospitals) Amendment Act,...
Nov 10, 2021
Saskatchewan to get tougher on stunting, racing, excessive speeding
Saskatchewan police soon will be getting the green light to assess stiffer penalties against drivers who are stunting, racing or speeding excessively on the province's roads. The provincial government...
Nov 10, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Two new policing initiatives launched in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan government is giving police in the province more tools to deal with high-risk offenders. As was laid out in the Throne Speech, the government is launching two new policing initiatives...
Nov 10, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Snowfall warnings issued as winter returns to parts of Sask.
Some parts of Saskatchewan are getting acquainted with winter and dicey driving conditions again. Environment Canada issued snowfall warnings early Wednesday for central areas of the province includin...
Nov 10, 2021
Sask. company at forefront of sustainable lithium mining with new tech
The demand for lithium has jumped substantially in the last few years and is poised to keep doing so as electric vehicles continue storming the vehicle market. The hitch is that mining the lithium its...
Nov 09, 2021 Zach Maurer, the president and CEO of Prairie Lithium, holds a small jar of lithium and other jars of the chemicals used in the process of extracting lithium from oil well brine on Nov. 9, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Latest COVID update Nov. 9: Two more transferred patients die in Ontario
Two more ICU patients Saskatchewan had sent to Ontario for treatment have died. During a COVID-19 technical briefing Tuesday, Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency president Marlo Pritchard said five peop...
Nov 09, 2021
Sask. hopes to soon resume some cancelled health services, including organ donation
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has released a plan that will include the resumption of a variety of health services that were paused across the province as health-care workers were redeployed to he...
Nov 09, 2021
Legion expects more poppies to be given out this year
The poppy had a good season during its centennial year. Diane Robson, chair of the Saskatoon poppy campaign, says the campaign is just starting to wrap up, and seems to have gone a bit better than las...
Nov 09, 2021
Crime Reduction Teams initiative expanding in Saskatchewan
Two more Crime Reduction Teams are set to begin operations in Saskatchewan. As called for in the Throne Speech, the Saskatchewan government is putting up $1.5 million in the 2021-22 fiscal year to exp...
Nov 09, 2021
Sask. woman in dire need of kidney blames government for surgery suspension
Jessica Bailey was getting ready to get her life-saving kidney transplant this past summer. She and her donor had gone through a year of testing and some unfortunate setbacks, but they had the green l...
Nov 08, 2021 Jessica Bailey is in dire need of a kidney and says that the health-care slowdown, which she says is the fault of government inaction, means she hasn't been able to get one. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Murray Wood: Signs of spring appearing in Saskatchewan
Murray Wood says signs of spring were all over the place on the weekend, even though the forecast remains wintery for th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 8
On today's show, Evan gets the latest on global tensions with Iran and the U.S., discusses Riversdale safety concerns an...