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Details of Saskatchewan's AgriRecovery Program revealed
Saskatchewan's agriculture industry got a financial boost from the provincial and federal governments Friday to help compensate for a difficult year. Federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lawrenc...
Oct 20, 2023 Saskatchewan livestock producers are to reach financial assistance from the federal and provincial governments. (Canadian Cattlemen's Association/Facebook)
'A feeling of sorrow:' Caregiver discusses husband's Alzheimer's diagnosis
Alzheimer's and dementia continue to affect many people in Saskatchewan. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. It's a progressive disease, beginning with mild memory loss and possib...
Oct 20, 2023 Merle (left) and Dean Wiley on their 40th anniversary in August. Merle is the primary caregiver for Dean, who has Alzheimer's. (Merle Wiley/Submitted)
Sparring over notwithstanding clause as pronoun legislation debate nears end
While the hours left before the Saskatchewan government's pronoun legislation could become law dwindled on Thursday, the question of the use of the notwithstanding clause in the legislation came to th...
Oct 20, 2023 Saskatchewan Justice Minister and Attorney General Bronwyn Eyre is defending the use of the notwithstanding clause in the passage of the province's pronoun legislation. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Pronoun bill opponents decry lack of consultation
With just a few more hours left before debate finishes on the pronoun legislation in Saskatchewan, opposition to the bill wasn't finished Thursday morning. A group of Indigenous leaders and teens watc...
Oct 19, 2023 Tyler George, Saskatchewan's two-spirit representative to the Assembly of First Nations and a headperson for Ochapowace First Nation, says First Nations and two-spirit people were not consulted about the pronoun policy. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan teens walk out of class to protest pronoun policy
With many wearing flags and waving signs, students walked out of class Tuesday afternoon to show their frustration and displeasure with the government's soon-to-be law around pronouns in schools. In R...
Oct 17, 2023 A teen holds up a protest sign in front of Balfour Collegiate in Regina after several teens walked out of class Tuesday afternoon to protest the pronoun policy that will soon be law in Saskatchewan. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Cannabis store CEO tells Gormley about industry's struggles with federal rules
A cannabis store CEO and lawyer wants the federal government to revisit laws it made five years ago when legalizing cannabis. Kirk Tousaw, the CEO of Great Gardiner Farms Ltd., spoke with Gormley on T...
Oct 17, 2023 Kirk Tousaw, a cannabis lawyer and CEO of Great Gardiner Farms Ltd., said there has been tremendous success since the legalization of pot. (THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO/Jonathan Hayward)
Business on the rise at Vatic Cannabis store
Vatic Cannabis -- formerly known as Eden -- was one of the first weed stores to open up in Saskatchewan. Five years later, business is picking up. Lukas Leibel, the manager of the store in Emerald Par...
Oct 17, 2023 Lukas Leibel is the manager for Vatic Cannabis Co. in Regina. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
Sask. gov't being extra careful in pronoun legislation: Expert
Last week, the public got its first look at the legislation that will enshrine Saskatchewan's controversial pronoun policy into law, and one expert says some of the clauses are making a point of prote...
Oct 16, 2023 A professor of public policy says the Saskatchewan government is being very careful with its legislation regarding its pronoun policy in schools. (980 CJME file photo)
RCMP asks for patience over 'Queen of Canada' in Richmound
While people in the village of Richmound are trying to make their frustration known, the Saskatchewan RCMP is asking for patience over the presence of the woman calling herself the "Queen of Canada" a...
Oct 16, 2023 The RCMP is keeping a close eye on the goings-on in Richmound, where the self-proclaimed "Queen of Canada" and her followers currently are living. (paNOW file photo)
People gather to honour victims from Gaza conflict in Saskatoon
A couple dozen people gathered by the Vimy Memorial in Saskatoon at a vigil to honour the victims lost in the Gaza conflict from both Israel and Palestine. At the vigil there was a call for the Canadi...
Oct 15, 2023
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...