Murray Wood: Saskatchewan is winning the race to the bottom on minimum wage
An increase is coming for Saskatchewan's minimum-wage earners this fall, but Murray Wood says it will ensure they contin...
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Sask Sport, province team up in hopes of curbing abuse in sports
Harassment and abuse in sport will not be tolerated in Saskatchewan. That’s the message the province and Sask Sport Inc., are sending in a joint marketing campaign that promotes the resources to...
Oct 07, 2019
SaskTel blocks attempt by employees to return to work
Hours after Unifor said striking Saskatchewan Crown employees would go back to work Tuesday, SaskTel nixed the idea for the corporation. "SaskTel will not be allowing employees who are members of Unif...
Oct 07, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Coroner to examine woman’s death in Indian Head RCMP cells
The Saskatchewan Coroners Service is to start investigating the death of Deanna Whitecap later this month. The inquest is scheduled for Oct. 28 to Nov. 1 in Regina. Whitecap was found unresponsive in ...
Oct 07, 2019
First Nations groups upset government is appealing compensation
In September, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered the federal government to pay billions of dollars in compensation to First Nations children and their families who were separated by the child-...
Oct 07, 2019 Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand speaks to reporters at TCU Place on Nov. 15, 2017. (Bryn Levy/650 CKOM)
Climate protesters shut down bridges in Canadian cities as part of global action
Protesters shut down a handful of bridges across Canada today as part of a global effort to push for more urgent action on climate change. Activists with a group dubbed Extinction Rebellion blocked tr...
Oct 07, 2019
Strikers allegedly demanding ID at the picket line
SaskTel picketers in Saskatoon are allegedly demanding ID from people sharing their office space. Both Sentinel Financial Group and a SaskTel office are based out of a building near the intersection o...
Oct 07, 2019 Unifor national president Jerry Dias, speaking to media Oct. 3, 2019.
(Lisa Shick/980 CJME)
Rockets’ general manager’s Hong Kong comments anger China
BEIJING (AP) - Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tried Sunday to defuse the rapidly growing fallout over his deleted tweet that showed support for Hong Kong anti-government protesters, sayin...
Oct 07, 2019
AP sources: Trump allies sought changes at Ukraine utility
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump's main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his ...
Oct 07, 2019
Hunt ends for 2 escaped inmates from Sask. prison
Two escaped inmates from a Prince Albert prison are back behind bars. In a media release, RCMP said 20-year-old Jesse Favel and 19-year-old Noah Lemaigre-Elliot were captured Sunday morning by Saskato...
Oct 07, 2019 Jeese Dion Favel, 20, and Noah James Lemaigre-Elliot, 19, escaped from Riverbend Institution on Oct. 4, 2019. (Prince Albert RCMP)
Stacey Wiebe, Green Party of Canada
Personal details. Name, age, hometown Stacey Wiebe. 39. Sturgis. Tell us about yourself I am a certified organic cattle and goat farmer. I have two children and I am married. I live near Sturgis. I am...
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