Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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Canadian canola still finding its way to China, keeping farmers busy with steady demand
A dispute between Beijing and Ottawa led to a ban on Canadian canola to China. But that hasn't dampened the demand for the oilseed. Todd Lewis, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of S...
Aug 14, 2020 Canola from Todd Lewis' crops on Aug. 14, 2020. (Libby Giesbrecht/980 CJME)
27 new COVID-19 cases reported in Sask.; majority from communal living settings
The Government of Saskatchewan announced 27 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday - including 22 from communal living settings. Of the 166 active cases in the province, 95 are in communal living situation...
Aug 13, 2020
U of S professor floats the idea of ‘pool testing’ for back-to-school plan
A microbiologist at the University of Saskatchewan believes the province needs a different approach to COVID-19 testing in schools. Kyle Anderson, an assistant professor of biochemistry, microbiology ...
Aug 12, 2020
Sask. reports five new COVID-19 cases, 20 more recoveries
The Regina area had four of the five new COVID-19 cases reported by the Government of Saskatchewan on Wednesday. The total number of cases in the area is now 129, with 29 of those recorded over the pa...
Aug 12, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Saskatchewan doctors ratify five-year contract
Saskatchewan's doctors officially have a new deal with the province. In a media release Wednesday, the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) announced the physicians had...
Aug 12, 2020
Infrastructure improvements planned for some provincial parks
Upgrades are coming to some provincial parks in southern Saskatchewan. The provincial government said Wednesday it's investing nearly $8 million in infrastructure improvements to parks in the south as...
Aug 12, 2020 (Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park/Facebook)
‘Busiest time in our history’: SARCAN sees record numbers in July
July was a record-breaking month for SARCAN, obliterating its previous record of containers taken in by more than 10 million. "It's been the busiest time in our history," said Sean Homenick, SARCAN's ...
Aug 11, 2020
Saskatoon COVID-19 researcher responds to Russia’s vaccine announcement
Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine. It hasn't taken long for that decision to be met with a fair amount of skepticism from experts around the world and here at ho...
Aug 11, 2020
Sask. gov’t updates school masking recommendations, won’t implement province-wide policy
Saskatchewan's provincial government provided new guidance Tuesday for school divisions that plan to implement mandatory mask use when classes resume in the fall. But Education Minister Gord Wyant and...
Aug 11, 2020 Education Minister Gord Wyant. (File photo by Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. reports 29 new COVID-19 cases, including 17 in the Saskatoon region
There were 29 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Saskatchewan on Tuesday, with 17 of them in the Saskatoon zone. In a media release, the provincial government said 11 of those 17 cases were from a comm...
Aug 11, 2020 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Murray Wood: The Art of the CUSMA Deal
Insults, complaints that Canada is so mean, warnings the U.S. doesn't need us. It's all standard operating procedure. Th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 29
On Wednesday, Evan reviews Tuesday's federal spring fiscal update, takes the temperature of the new CFL changes coming i...