Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Sask. business fined $10,000 for COVID violation
A Saskatchewan business has been fined $10,000 for breaking COVID-19 regulations. The province's Ministry of Health didn't share Thursday which business had been fined, in which community it's located...
Sep 24, 2020 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
Sask. reports 5 new COVID cases, 8 more recoveries; another fine levied
Another Saskatchewan resident has been fined for violating Saskatchewan's COVID-19 public health orders. In its update Thursday, the provincial government said an individual had been fined $2,000 afte...
Sep 24, 2020
Sask. reports six new COVID cases, 19 more recoveries
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan dropped by 13 on Wednesday. The provincial government reported six new cases and 19 recoveries, lowering the active caseload to 133. The new cases -...
Sep 23, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
NDP promises to take corporate, out-of-province money out of Sask. politics
NDP Leader Ryan Meili says Saskatchewan has the worst campaign finance laws in the country, and he's pledging to fix them if his party forms government this fall. "We need to level the playing field a...
Sep 23, 2020 NDP Leader Ryan Meili announcing his party's intention to ban corporate and out-of-province political donations on Sept. 23, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Canada’s carbon tax conundrum continues as Supreme Court reserves judgment in cases
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment on the national carbon tax Wednesday. After two days of hearings and presentations from more than two dozen interested parties, the court adjourn...
Sep 23, 2020
Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Liberal government’s carbon tax
OTTAWA -- Supreme Court justices pushed lawyers from Saskatchewan and Ontario hard Tuesday, demanding to know how Canada can help stop climate change if any single province chooses not to help. But se...
Sep 22, 2020
Anxiety, excitement outline return to school at 2-week mark: STF
Tuesday marks two weeks since the return to school in Saskatchewan. So, how have things gone? Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) President Patrick Maze told 650 CKOM that it has come with a...
Sep 22, 2020
10 new COVID cases, 9 more recoveries reported in Sask.
The Saskatchewan government reported 10 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday. That means, in the past week, there have been nearly 100 new cases reported in the province. But the government's chief medical h...
Sep 22, 2020 Premier Scott Moe and Dr. Saqib Shahab. (980 CJME file photo)
More ambiguous loss counsellors needed in Saskatchewan
A family member going missing just isn't quite the same as a family member dying, according to Dwayne Yasinowski. He's the director of education with Caring Hearts Saskatchewan, which is one of the re...
Sep 21, 2020 A billboard featuring long-term missing people in Saskatchewan has been erected on Saskatchewan Drive in Regina. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Farmers pitch in to help Sorensen family with harvest
Craig Sorensen experienced the power of community on the weekend. The 55-year-old Sorensen farms just north of Ogema, but he wasn't able to participate in harvest this year after the lower part of his...
Sep 21, 2020 (Craig Sorensen/Submitted)
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Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...