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WATCH: 2024 Sask. election is underway, voters head to polls Oct. 28
Premier Scott Moe directed Lieutenant Governor Russ Mirasty to dissolve the Legislative Assembly and issue the writs of election on Tuesday, kicking off Saskatchewan's 2024 general election. Residents...
Oct 01, 2024 Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party currently holds a strong majority in the assembly – as it has since 2007 – controlling 43 of the assembly’s 61 seats. Carla Beck’s New Democratic Party, which currently serves as Saskatchewan’s official opposition, holds just 14 seats. (Brittany Caffet/650 CKOM)
Third annual Every Child Matters Powwow held in Saskatoon
People from across Saskatchewan gathered at SaskTel Centre on Monday for the third annual Every Child Matters powwow. The powwow, which is held annually on Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconcil...
Oct 01, 2024 Indigenous communities from across Saskatchewan gathered at SaskTel Centre on Monday for the third annual Every Child Matters Powwow. People danced and sang in honour of those lost to the residential school system. (Shane Clausing/650 CKOM)
VIDEO: Huskies athletes put personal spin on pre-game land acknowledgements
For the last several years, University of Saskatchewan Huskies sports teams have been playing land acknowledgments before their games to honour Indigenous Peoples and the land they play on. But this y...
Sep 30, 2024 Alyssa D'Agnone is in her fourth season with the Huskies soccer team, and volunteered to write her own land acknowledgment for this season. (Huskies Athletics/supplied)
Hope accompanies Annie Peyachew statue unveiled in North Battleford
At the entrance to a grassy grove in Central Park in North Battleford, a little girl stood on a boulder wrapped in a star blanket. As the mid-morning sunlight gently dappled the leaves of the overhang...
Sep 29, 2024 From left: Alvin Baptiste, member of BISCA and emcee Sheldon Wutunee during the presentation of a bronze statue of Annie Peyachew in Central Park in North Battleford on Sept. 27, 2024. (Julia Lovett-Squires/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Man arrested for stabbings in Pleasant Hill armed response: Saskatoon police
A police incident that disrupted traffic in Saskatoon's Pleasant Hill on Saturday ended in the arrest of a 24-year-old man who has been charged with aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm....
Sep 28, 2024 Saskatoon police were called to a home at the corner of 22nd St W and Ave Q S around 1 p.m. on Sept. 28, 2024, and police were seen surrounding a house with guns drawn. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Sask. Olympians, Paralympians make a splash with young fans in Saskatoon
Saskatchewan Olympians and Paralympians made their splash in the pool in Paris and are now adjusting back to regular daily life. Pike Lake's Rylan Wiens, who won a bronze medal with his diving partner...
Sep 28, 2024 Saskatchewan Olympians and Paralympians met with young kids to sign autographs and share some advice in Saskatoon on Sept. 28, 2024. (Will Mandzuk/650CKOM)
Missing Yorkton man found dead in rural area
The body of a man reported missing in Yorkton on Sept. 25 was found on Friday in a rural area near Highway 16 west of Yorkton. Yorkton RCMP said in a news release on Friday that the family of 71-year-...
Sep 28, 2024 Alex_Schmidt / Depositphotos.com
New cornhole league taking off in Saskatoon
Sports in Saskatchewan are usually dominated by hockey, baseball, football, soccer and basketball. But the game of cornhole seems to be starting to take the province by storm - there's even a new leag...
Sep 28, 2024 People in Saskatoon can compete in a brand new cornhole league. (Will Mandzuk/650CKOM)
The Evan Bray Show: Cost of living high on minds of Sask. voters
Daniel Westlake, assistant political studies professor at the University of Saskatchewan, talked to Evan Bray about Saskatchewan's upcoming election and the state of federal politics on Thursday. Cont...
Sep 28, 2024
Hundreds walk in Regina to honour victims, survivors of residential schools
The First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) held its annual smudge walk in Regina on Friday in honour of residential school survivors, and children who did not make it home. Jackie Ottmann, Presid...
Sep 27, 2024
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 1
Today on the show, Evan revisits his conversation with astronaut Jeremy Hansen about the Artemis II launch, cheers on th...
