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There is extra anticipation around the Roughriders' first-place showdown with the Elks tonight. Murray Wood says everyon...
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Saskatchewan team sent to Washington, Oregon to assist in wildfire battle
Saskatchewan has lent a helping hand to those battling blazes in the United States. According to the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency's (SPSA) director of communications, Christopher Clemett, the eig...
Sep 16, 2020
NDP hopes to ban private health services, increase investment in health
The Saskatchewan NDP is hoping to reform the provincial health-care system. The party announced a new policy Wednesday entitled The Saskatchewan Medicare Protection Act. A major change it lists is ban...
Sep 16, 2020 NDP Leader Ryan Meili and NDP Health Critic Vicki Mowat speaking on their plans for health-care changes on Sept. 16, 2020. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
Program launched to train female transport truck drivers in Sask.
The Government of Saskatchewan has launched a new pilot program for women who want training to become transport drivers. In a release, the province says, the program, called Women Shifting Gears, is a...
Sep 16, 2020 (Rennett Stowe/Wikimedia Commons)
Long lost recordings by Joni Mitchell discovered in B.C. basement
A piece of music history thought to be lost forever has found the light of day more than five decades later. In 1963, a then-unknown Joni Mitchell was playing in coffee houses in Saskatoon when she vi...
Sep 16, 2020 Gillian Snider and her band perform in the Persephone Theatre lobby before unveiling a plaque on Joni Mitchell Promenade on June 10, 2018. (Keenan Sorokan/ 650 CKOM)
Health authority warns of potential COVID-19 exposure at baseball games
The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority is advising the public that an individual who later tested positive for COVID-19 took part in a recent baseball tournament in Shoal Lake. The authority said ...
Sep 16, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
'We have a real concern:' city sees 50% spike in arson incidents this year
The Saskatoon Fire Department is concerned about the spike in arson cases this year. On Sunday night, a metal shop on Avenue I South sustained $750,000 damage after it was intentionally lit on fire. T...
Sep 16, 2020 Arson was the cause of a commercial fire on Avenue I South on September 13, 2020.
(Saskatoon Fire Department/Submitted photo)
SPS civilian member tests positive for COVID-19
A civilian member of the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) has tested positive for COVID-19. SPS confirmed the positive case to 650 CKOM Wednesday morning. The individual received the positive diagnosis ...
Sep 16, 2020
Potential COVID-19 exposures at Sask. businesses
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is letting the public know that a person who tested positive for COVID-19, visited businesses in Saskatoon, Wynyard and Foam Lake earlier this month. The busine...
Sep 15, 2020 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
Plan for new school launched in Saskatoon
The city centre neighbourhood in Saskatoon will see a new school welcoming students in 2024. The government is investing $29 million to build a new pre-Kindergarten to Grade 8 school in the neighbourh...
Sep 15, 2020 Chair of Saskatoon Public Schools, Colleen MacPherson, speaks to the media at an announcement for a new pre-k to grade eight school being constructed in Saskatoon. (Logan Stein/650 CKOM)
Blaine Lake RCMP searching for two men after elderly man assaulted
The Blaine Lake RCMP is searching for two men after they allegedly assaulted and robbed a 79-year-old man after he refused to drive them to Prince Albert. According to a media release, Monday at 5:30 ...
Sep 15, 2020
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, July 23
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