Tag Archives: Provincial Politics
Saskatchewan's Moe wants carbon tax delayed pending Appeal Court ruling
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is asking Ottawa to hold off on imposing a carbon tax next month until the province's Court of Appeal has ruled on its constitutionality. S...
Mar 04, 2019
OSI-CAN founder remembered as 'mentor' and 'hero'
A founding member of OSI-CAN, a group that provides mental health supports for first responders and veterans, has passed away.Chris Siddons from Regina took his own life on Thursday. Jack Rennie, an a...
Mar 01, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
NDP aims for sweep in P.A.
Saskatchewan NDP leader Ryan Meili is eyeing Prince Albert as a key battleground come next year's election, while using the recent SNC-Lavalin scandal facing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a launch ...
Feb 28, 2019 NDP leader Ryan Meili and Prince Albert Northcote MLA Nicole Rancourt. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff) : Glenn Hicks
Local researcher using art-based approach to address youth drinking rate
Based on a recent study, that revealed the drinking rate amongst high school students in the Saskatchewan Rivers School Division was 20 per cent higher than the national average, a local researcher ha...
Feb 26, 2019 Geoffrey Maina. (submitted photo/ Geoffrey Maina)
Provincial government seeks technological solution to trespass challenges
Proposed changes to Saskatchewan's laws around trespassing have been generating controversy in some corridors.The new legislation, which is expected to come up for debate in the spring would put the o...
Feb 25, 2019 The Government of Saskatchewan wants the public's help to solve the issues surrounding the province's new trespassing laws and hunters. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Concern for measles outbreak in Sask. remains low according to Health Authority
A recent outbreak of the measles in Vancouver is being watched with keen interest by the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), but the SHA's medical director for immunizations and travel health, believ...
Feb 22, 2019 (The Canadian Press)
Surviving the game: A look at mental health supports for hockey players
The pressures that come with leading a team, or living hundreds of miles away from home, can take an emotional toll on a young man with dreams of playing in the NHL, according to a local representativ...
Feb 20, 2019
More children relying on food banks to eat, according to new report
Saskatchewan has the highest proportion of children relying on food banks in the country, according to a new report from Food Banks Canada.The 2018 report found 43.5 per cent of individuals served by ...
Feb 15, 2019
P.A. lawyer says federal carbon tax will do more good than harm
A decision on whether imposing a federal carbon tax on Saskatchewan is unconstitutional remains up in the air, but in the meantime a Prince Albert environmentalist and lawyer says she supports the Lib...
Feb 15, 2019
'More than words': $16 million announced for wellness, healing and recovery centre
The wide-reaching impact the construction of a wellness, healing and recovery centre in the tri-communities will have in northern Saskatchewan was apparent at a special announcement today.Surrounded b...
Feb 14, 2019
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