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.