Rent reduced for riders, early budget items approved by Regina Council
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Regina's city council covered a lot of ground in a three-hour meeting on Wednesday. With all members in attendance, coun...
8:30 – Monday Morning Coffee – Dr. Peter Stoicheff, president of the University of Saskatchewan, joins Evan to discuss the biggest stories making headlines this morning.
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9:30 – Evan checks in on how broadcasting reforms are going with National Newspaper Award-winning journalist, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, past editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald and former vice-chair of the CRTC, Peter Menzies.
10:00 – The Round Table of Justice – Each and every Monday, we invite experts in the law to pull up a seat and discuss the week’s biggest crime and justice stories. In today’s Round Table of Justice Evan is joined by Chief Dale McFee of the Edmonton Police Service and Chief Adam Palmer of the Vancouver Police Department to discuss drug decriminalization.
11:00 – In an editorial published earlier this month in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, two contributors to the Saskatoon Public School Foundation, Pat Boot and Catherine Weenk, make note of Saskatchewan’s poorer academic performance than other provinces. Boot and Weenk say better-performing provinces have implemented class size limits and classroom complexity measures and tell Evan they want to see the same careful action taken in the province.
11:30 – After Nadine Wilson’s leadership of the Saskatchewan United Party, a new leader is taking the helm. Evan sits down with Jon Hromek, the new leader of the Saskatchewan United Party, to learn his vision for the leadership and future of the party.
12:00 – A University of Saskatchewan professor has received the most prestigious national teaching award in Canada, the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, and is the first woman from the University of Saskatchewan to receive the award. Dr. Loleen Berdahl, executive director of the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School (JSGS) of Public Policy and professor in the USask College of Arts and Science political studies department joins Evan to speak about her work and the accomplishment.