Murray Wood: Drop in reading rates a sad trend to see
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Justice Minister agrees improvements should be made to PCC
Saskatchewan's Minister of Justice both agrees and disagrees with the Regina Board of Police Commissioners. Last week, the board passed a motion to ask for improvements to how police are overseen in t...
Jun 29, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Rob Norris announces run for mayor – says ‘fresh eyes and perspective’ needed at city hall
As the sounds of Eighth Street construction equipment and traffic echoed in the background, former Saskatchewan Party MLA and cabinet minister Rob Norris formally announced his intention to run for ma...
Jun 25, 2020
Group behind dozens of letters to Board of Police Commissioners hopes to ‘disarm, defund and abolish’ SPS
By her own admission, Eileen Bear’s personal experiences with police haven’t been very pleasant. As a spokesperson for the group “Saskatoon Coordinating Committee Against Police Viol...
Jun 17, 2020
“Justice for Floyd” rally to march through city’s downtown
A march through Saskatoon’s downtown will be part of tonight’s “Justice for George Rally.” Saskatoon police say they have spoken to organizers and will allow everything to proc...
Jun 04, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges with training police recruits
Police training can be intense at the best of times - 20 weeks cramming in the classroom and practical training for a career fighting crime - but, for the policing class that just graduated in Saskatc...
Jun 01, 2020 (Regina Police Service/Facebook)
City warns of COVID-19 scam making the rounds
The City of Saskatoon is warning residents about a COVID-19 scam that is circulating. It is a text message and phone scam and looks like a legitimate COVID-19 survey. It’s not. In a release, the...
May 26, 2020
Teenage boy attacked while riding his bicycle after being blamed for pandemic
A Saskatoon father says his 15-year-old son was the victim of a racial attack Friday afternoon at a park in Lawson Heights. In a Facebook post Friday, the boy's father opened up about the alleged atta...
May 24, 2020
Man facing hate charges after Saskatoon churches spray-painted
A 36-year-old man is facing several charges, including hate-based charges, after three more churches were spray-painted in Saskatoon. 650 CKOM has confirmed his name is Amir Bozorgmehr and has a depor...
May 13, 2020 St. George's Anglican Church on Avenue I South is one of the churches spray-painted with homophobic slurs recently. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Officer, civilian in hospital after riverbank rescue Sunday
Saskatoon emergency crews battled icy riverbank conditions to pull a man suffering from hypothermia and an injured officer to safety. Just after 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon, officers were called to the ea...
Mar 29, 2020
Essential services to continue, city says in COVID-19 update Tuesday
Leaders of Saskatoon’s emergency response teams gathered at city hall Tuesday to update where the city is at in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Director of Saskatoon’s emergency managem...
Mar 17, 2020
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, Sept. 19
Evan talks with Premier Moe about his trip to China and the current state of canola tariffs, Ray Wilgenbusch about the M...