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Premier backtracks on Crown privatization talks
The Saskatchewan government is backtracking on its plans for the Crown corporations. In the spring, it passed Bill 40, which defined what privatization meant and would allow for the sale of up to 49 p...
Aug 30, 2017
Regina tavern teams up with SGI for latest campaign
SGI's latest impaired driving campaign has a partner in Regina. Victoria's Tavern approached SGI to become a partner in the Be a Good Wingman Campaign. The campaign challenges people to step up to the...
Jul 28, 2017 Minister responsible for SGI Joe Hargrave and Victoria's Tavern co-manager Chantelle Karaushaar at the Be a Good Wingman Campaign announcement on July 28, 2017. (Sarah Wallace/980 CJME)
'Be a Good Wingman:' SGI asks friends to stop drunk driving
SGI is out with its latest impaired driving campaign. "Be a Good Wingman" challenges people to step up to the plate and stop impaired friends from driving, even if they find it hard to say anything. T...
Jul 28, 2017 SGI's latest drunk driving campaign on the side of Victoria's Tavern in Regina. (Sarah Wallace/980 CJME)
Bar owners, industry groups call SGI lawsuits a positive step
An unprecedented move by SGI is being heralded as a turning point by industry groups and family of drunk driving victims. The province filed lawsuits Thursday against Industrial Kitchen & Bar and ...
Jul 06, 2017
Saskatchewan’s seatbelt laws turn 40
It's been 40 years since seatbelt laws came into effect in Saskatchewan, and Wednesday SGI was reminding the public just how important it is to buckle up. Belton and Bella, two straw dummies used insi...
Jun 28, 2017 SGI's safety squad uses the rollover simulator to demonstrate what happens when people don't buckle up. (Jessie Anton/980 CJME)
SGI ad uses photos of Sask. victims to target drunk drivers
The sound of sobbing echoed through the legislature as SGI played its 2017 impaired driving campaign ad for the first time on Thursday. Members of the government's administration team wiped away tears...
May 11, 2017
SGI says speed-related deaths, crashes down
In a week that has highlighted some heavy-footed tendencies among Saskatoon drivers, SGI says there has been progress in the fight to curb speeding. A 16-year-old boy was fined more than $700 Tuesday,...
May 11, 2017
Distracted driving tickets up, highest in Sask. since 2014
It seems people in Saskatchewan just aren't getting the message to put down the cellphone while they're behind the wheel. Last month, police in Saskatchewan issued the most tickets for distracted driv...
Apr 25, 2017
Thin ice: Sask. drivers warned after truck falls into river
People are being warned about driving over ice after a truck fell through at a popular crossing north of Saskatoon. Warman Fire Rescue got a call around 7:30 a.m. Sunday of a pickup truck ...
Mar 27, 2017
One year later: what's changed since a drunk driver killed the Van de Vorst family
It's a somber anniversary for a Saskatoon family that lost four members in a drunk driving crash one year ago. Parents Jordan and Chandra Van de Vorst and their two children - two-year-old Miguire and...
Jan 03, 2017
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