Provincial Politics

Maze talks education challenges at NDP convention

The head of the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation (STF) made a stop in Prince Albert to talk about education.Patrick Maze, the STF's president spoke to the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party convention ...

Nov 01, 2019 Patrick Maze, president of the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation spoke at the Saskatchewan NDP convention Friday. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)

Saskatchewan New Democrats set to gather in P.A.

New Democrats from all over Saskatchewan are set to be in Prince Albert for the next few days.The Saskatchewan NDP's annual convention will be getting underway Friday before wrapping up on Sunday. Pla...

Oct 31, 2019 The Saskatchewan NDP are set to meet in Prince Albert on Friday for their annual convention. (file photo/paNOW Staff)

Alberta asking arbitrators to cut public service pay by two per cent

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is seeking wage rollbacks as binding arbitration gets set to resume with more than 180,000 public sector workers. Finance Minister Travis Toews says the government wi...

Oct 29, 2019

Alberta tables climate plan for industry; retains key parts of old legislation

EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a new climate plan for the province's big greenhouse gas emitters that it says will achieve similar emissions cuts as the former NDP government's plan and at less cos...

Oct 29, 2019 (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

Crown employees voting on proposed deal

Unionized employees at Saskatchewan Crown corporations have started the ratification process on a new collective bargaining agreement.A tentative deal was reached between Unifor and six Crowns - SaskT...

Oct 28, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Sask. government not in favour of western separation

While the idea of Western Canada separating from the rest of the country has been talked about in some corners of Saskatchewan and Alberta since the Liberal party won the federal election Monday, the ...

Oct 25, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Sask. Party shuts down emergency debate on education

The Saskatchewan NDP believes there's a crisis happening in the province's schools, but when its education critic tried to start an emergency debate on the subject after the first Question Period of t...

Oct 24, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

UCP government to table first budget, warns of program spending cuts

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is to table a budget today that will cut program spending by nearly three per cent. The budget is the first under Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative governmen...

Oct 24, 2019

Alberta education minister releases new guidelines for school seclusion rooms

EDMONTON - Alberta's education minister says seclusion rooms in schools will not be banned, but only used as a last resort when a student poses significant and imminent danger to themselves or others....

Oct 23, 2019

Alberta finance minister says first budget to attack spending, not services

EDMONTON - Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says the first budget of the new United Conservative government will surgically attack spending but not at the expense of essential services. Toews say...

Oct 23, 2019