Tag Archives: Federal Politics
Northern Sask. community demands answers over power bills costing thousands of dollars
Residents living in the northern Saskatchewan community of Southend have been forced to dig deeper into their pockets, after receiving some unusually high power bills.Starla Morin was living in the co...
Mar 21, 2019 A Southend resident holds up a power bill indicating how expensive things can become. (Submitted photo/ Starla Morin)
Bill to make Orange Shirt Day a federal holiday passes third reading
A new statutory holiday could be announced soon as Desneth-Missinippi-Churchill River NDP MP Georgina Jolibois's private member bill passed a third and final reading.That means the bill is now headed ...
Mar 21, 2019 NDP MP Georgina Jolibois' bill to create new holiday passes final reading. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Prince Albert MP finds flaws in federal budget plan
Short term rewards offered in Tuesday's federal budget will be outweighed by the long term pain of taxes, according to Prince Albert's Conservative member of Parliament.Randy Hoback discussed the $22....
Mar 21, 2019 Randy Hoback. (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
STARS to use federal budget cash to replace fleet
STARS air ambulance got some good news in the 2019 federal budget.Ottawa committed $65 million to the air ambulance service in Tuesday's budget.Mike Lamacchia, STARS vice-president of operations in Al...
Mar 20, 2019 (Submitted photo/CKOM News)
Federal budget delivers compensation money for hard hit farmers
Dairy, egg and poultry farmers who have lost money because of Canada's recent free-trade agreements with Europe and the Pacific Rim, will receive billions of dollars in compensation, according to Tues...
Mar 19, 2019 (File photo/ farmnewsNOW)
Sask. woman contests right to live in provincial park
A founding member of the Idle No More Movement will face a judge this week in Prince Albert, arguing she was within her treaty rights to live in a provincial campground.In early 2017, Sylvia McAdam an...
Mar 19, 2019 Sylvia McAdam. (gofundme.com)
Tax incentives making renewable energy more attractive for some
Tomorrow the Government of Canada is set to announce the new budget for the federal government.While what is in that document will have a major impact on many people, a Saskatchewan man involved in th...
Mar 18, 2019 Solar industry members says write offs make certain renewable power systems more attractive to businesses (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick to quit before election
OTTAWA - Michael Wernick - the country's top bureaucrat - is leaving his job, telling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an open letter that recent events show him there is no path for a "relationship o...
Mar 18, 2019 Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick at a defence department event in October 2018. (Michael Wernick/Twitter)
Proposed cannabis production facility leaves foul odour for neighbours
Residents living in the area where a small cannabis production facility may be built are voicing their concerns.Marcel Rabut lives next door to where the facility would be built in the Rural Municipal...
Mar 18, 2019
Agriculture, trade ministers will testify in April on Chinese canola issue
OTTAWA - A pair of federal cabinet ministers have been called on to testify before a parliamentary committee on China's move to reject canola shipments from one of Canada's largest grain pro...
Mar 17, 2019
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