Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
Tag Archives: Saskatchewan
Edenwold battling White City over annexation proposal
'Amalgamation' or 'annexation', 'one voice' or 'our choice', the Rural Municipality of Edenwold and the Town of White City are waging a war of words over whether to become one big community or stay se...
Oct 09, 2018 A handout by the Town of White City shows where it would like the boundary to be (in solid red) for its proposal of a new urban municipality. (Submitted)
What to know before hitting the road this long weekend
CAA Saskatchewan has some advice for drivers as they hit the road for the Thanksgiving long weekend. Christine Niemczyk, director of communications, said people should check the mechanical features on...
Oct 06, 2018 (Britton Gray/980 CJME file photo)
Just drive: SGI highlights dangers of distracted driving
Texting, eating a bowl of cereal, watching a movie on the dashboard and even reading a book. RCMP have seen all kinds of distracted drivers across Saskatchewan. Distracted driving is the number one hu...
Oct 05, 2018 Pylons mark the distracted driving course at the RCMP training facility in Regina on Oct. 5, 2018. (Andrew Shepherd/Twitter)
Sask. industries react to new USMCA trade deal
The new USMCA trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico is overall, a good deal for Saskatchewan according to the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP). "Industry is generally pleased ...
Oct 01, 2018
Sask. minimum wage up 10 cents, now 2nd-lowest in Canada
Minimum wage is going up in Saskatchewan, but earners and advocacy groups say more can be done. On Oct. 1, the province's minimum wage will increase 10 cents to $11.06 per hour - six cents above the l...
Oct 01, 2018
Pats show improvement in 2-1 loss to Moose Jaw
It was close but no cigar for the Regina Pats Sunday as they faced their Highway 1 rival Moose Jaw Warriors. Both teams were looking for their first win of the season, but it was the Warriors who came...
Sep 30, 2018 (File photo by Keith Hershmiller/Regina Pats)
Business leader not concerned with migration ebb and flow
Saskatchewan's population continues to grow, but it's slowing down. That's in part because the province is still losing thousands of people to interprovincial migration, most of them pursuing opportun...
Sep 28, 2018
Sask. still losing thousands to interprovincial migration
Saskatchewan's population continues to grow, reaching 1,162,062 people as of July 1, according to the latest numbers released Thursday by Statistics Canada. The province grew by 3,226 in the second qu...
Sep 27, 2018
Wet, snowy weather put damper on Sask. harvest
The wet, snowy and cool weather put a damper on harvest for producers in the province this week. The provincial crop report for the week of Sept. 18-24 shows 68 per cent of the harvest is in the bin, ...
Sep 27, 2018 Saskatchewan producers harvest at sunset. (Darren Sproat/Instagram)
No geotech study done on Saskatchewan bridge that collapsed on opening day
HYAS, Sask. - A reeve in eastern Saskatchewan says no geotechnical investigation was performed on a riverbed where a newly built bridge collapsed only hours after opening. The Dyck Memorial Bridge in ...
Sep 24, 2018
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...