Saskatchewan people who responded to a provincial government mail-in survey overwhelmingly said they want limits on social media for kids 16 and under, with 86 per cent expressing support. Our political panellists, Canadian Press reporter Jeremy Simes and political columnist Murray Mandryk, react to the survey and look at how the government is handling overcrowding in schools.

The federal government recently introduced the Safe Social Media Act, which would force social media platforms to restrict accounts for kids under 16 unless the platforms can implement adequate safeguards. Prior to that, Premier Scott Moe mailed every Sask. family a survey, seeking feedback from parents. We asked teens, technology analysts and mental health experts if a ban would actually work. This episode first aired on April 22, 2026.

This week the U.S.-Canada trade war heated up, with Canada announcing dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe also added his own levy on U.S. booze. Our panellists, political columnist Murray Mandryk and Canadian Press journalist Jeremy Simes, explain the latest. They also dive into the government’s first-quarter financial report.

Regina is adding a neighbourhood the size of Moose Jaw, but there’s no plan to build a school there. Turns out, this is a common problem in many new suburbs: people move to a newly-built neighbourhood and the nearest school quickly fills up. What is it like inside these schools and just how crowded are they? CBC’s Katie Swyers focuses on Saskatoon and Regina to see how divisions and families cope with overcrowding.

The Saskatchewan Marshals Service was in the process of creating a specialized response unit. This led one criminologist to question if it was necessary and then the provincial told the police force to pause plans for the unit. Guest host Tory Gillis asks our political panel, columnist Murray Mandryk and CBC Provincial Affairs reporter Alexander Quon, about this and the latest developments on trade between Canada and the U.S.

An inside look at the rifts that grew inside a southwestern Saskatchewan community in 2023 when a group of online extremists and Q-Anon believers pulled up and refused to leave. 

In this Uncover feed drop, Rachel Browne takes us inside Richmound, Sask., where the self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada” spent months hunkered down inside an abandoned school with her cult members.

When wildfires swept through northern Saskatchewan in 2025, officials ordered residents to leave. In this episode, meet the people who defied evacuation orders north of La Ronge for more than a week, forking out $39,000 for equipment to confront a wall of flames on their own. CBC producer Janani Whitfield travelled to Wadin Bay to understand the difficult decisions neighbours make when fire threatens their homes.

Saskatchewan’s wildfire response last summer was “inadequate” with “significant gaps”, according to an independent audit released June 12, 2026. A week later, Wadin Bay became the first fire-ravaged community to receive a provincial grant of $40,000 to compensate residents.

After Terrie-Ann Dauphinais was killed in 2002 at her home in Calgary, her husband was eventually charged, but never convicted. 

Six years later, a woman told Saskatoon police her then-boyfriend Ken Dauphinais had choked and sexually assaulted her. She didn't want charges laid at the time.

Then, Ken revealed details to a tattoo artist in a sting operation in 2017.

Ken Dauphinais is now serving a four and a half year sentence for the sexual assault. This episode is one of the only times his ex-girlfriend has ever spoken publicly. We look at what it took to convict him, and what this means for the victims of intimate partner violence.

Read more about the way police caught him here. Find the entire podcast series here.

Martensville today is one of Canada’s fastest-growing bedroom communities. But back in the early 1990s, rookie police officer Claudia Bryden was drawn into a bizarre case there, as she investigated a complaint about an alleged sexual assault at a home daycare. From there, mass hysteria and a web of suspects grew. On this episode of This Is Saskatchewan, we look back at the era of the “Satanic Panic”, one that still casts a dark shadow over innocent people wrongly accused of horrific crimes – and at why those rumours felt so easy to believe.

A high-profile head-on collision involving a Saskatchewan Roughrider led to politicians making public posts and the RCMP highlighting the high number of deaths caused by highway crashes in the province. We’ll ask our political panel about the response to the crash, and new tariffs threats by U.S. President Trump. Political columnist Murray Mandryk and CBC provincial affairs reporter Alexander Quon join guest host Tory Gillis.