Category Archives: Saskatchewan

'Axe the tax' and 'jail, not bail': Catching up with MP Rosemarie Falk
The fall sitting of Parliament started much the same way it ended for Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Rosemarie Falk and her fellow Conservatives: staying focused on the carbon tax and the economy. "I wil...
Sep 24, 2024
Caddies and paper bags: Schools figuring out cellphone bans
From cellphone "hotels" to patchwork policies to recalibrating lesson plans, teachers and schools across Canada are learning to navigate a classroom without cellphones.But some say that despite recent...
Sep 24, 2024
NDP rolls out $1.1 billion funding plan for Saskatchewan health care
Saskatchewan health-care workers continue to sound the alarm as they say the system in the province is in complete "crisis". Janell Hubbard, general vice president of CUPE 5430, said health-care worke...
Sep 24, 2024

Challenge to Saskatchewan’s pronoun law gets its day in court
REGINA - Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal is hearing arguments about a provincial law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school.A judge ruled...
Sep 23, 2024

Saulteaux Powwow celebrates heritage and healing through dance
Generations of Indigenous community members gathered at the 2024 Saulteaux Powwow on Saturday to celebrate their heritage and to find healing through dancing to the beat of the traditional Thunder Dru...
Sep 23, 2024

Christine Bumstead once took Panthers coach Paul Maurice hunting. And her coaching career took off
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Christine Bumstead's path toward being an assistant coach in a preseason game for the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers started in a most unusual way.She went deer hu...
Sep 23, 2024
PBCN to search for unmarked graves at Sturgeon Landing former residential school site
Like others residential schools, the one at Sturgeon Landing saw outbreaks of illness during its operation between 1926 and 1952. The names of 43 students are listed on the National Centre for Truth a...
Sep 23, 2024

‘He’s smiling down at us’: Wes Petterson Memorial Park opens in Weldon with special ceremony
The Family members, friends, and supporters gathered in the small village of Weldon Saturday to witness the opening of Wes Petterson Memorial Park. Hundreds of people packed near the park's entrance i...
Sep 22, 2024
‘Feels amazing’: Sask. Olympians, Paralympians celebrated at Legislature
They came from all over Saskatchewan and got to represent Canada on the world stage.Athletes, coaches and mission staff were all honoured at the Legislative Building on Friday for their participation ...
Sep 21, 2024

Sask. post-secondary institutions navigating effects of international student cap
While the full impact of a cap on international students in Canada remains to be seen, some of the post-secondary institutes in Saskatchewan expect it will be minimal here, considering how the provinc...
Sep 21, 2024