Tag Archives: Provincial Politics
USask researchers receive $1.5 million for rapid response wildfire research
Researchers will have more money to study the effects of wildfire damage on First Nations and Mtis communities.The Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Institute of Indigenous Peoples Health...
Oct 05, 2025
‘What we need is hope’: NDP Leader Carla Beck addresses delegates at party convention
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck has the highest post-election leadership review in party history.The NDP convention at TCU Place in Saskatoon this weekend brought in over 600 delegates, the largest...
Oct 05, 2025

SUMA returns from Ottawa in hopes to revive ICIP
With representatives from all over the province joining the trip, members of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) were in Ottawa for three days this past week. The purpose of the t...
Oct 04, 2025

New provincial legislation reduces financial barriers for people requiring legal help
Changes to Saskatchewan's Legal Profession Act will be a big benefit to those who previously could not afford a lawyer or qualify for legal aid. That's according to Melanie Markowski with Markowsky Li...
Oct 03, 2025

Plans for OSB mill in Prince Albert still underway despite market uncertainty
"It's taking way too long, and harder than we were hoping, but we have not given up."That's the message being delivered by those involved with One Sky Forestry Products' oriented strand board (OSB) mi...
Oct 01, 2025

Prince Albert family finds healing after residential school trauma
George Merasty was only six years old when he attended the All Saints Residential School in Prince Albert, and as he reflects on his life since then, his eyes well up in tears."I was never the same li...
Sep 30, 2025
UPDATED: Planned move from Hague to Denare Beach Monday: Sask. highways
Update: On Monday, Sept. 29 the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency clarified that a singular modular home being moved from Hague to Denare Beach is that of a private resident and the move is not relate...
Sep 28, 2025
Sask. government has contingency plans amid postal strike
The Government of Saskatchewan said contingency measures are in place to limit disruptions caused by the national Canada Post strike in a news release.On Thursday afternoon, Canada Post workers in Sas...
Sep 27, 2025

Unity Walk enters home stretch
The fourth annual Unity Walk starts Monday, west of Prince Albert and will make its way to Mistawasis First Nation by late Tuesday.As in past years, they're raising awareness for residential school su...
Sep 27, 2025

Catch up with MLA Jeremy Harrison: SaskPower upgrades, the province's role in world nuclear leadership, and family pride
Meadow Lake MLA Jeremy Harrison said residents can expect new SaskPower projects soon to improve reliability in the northwest, while the province also takes on a more prominent role in the global nucl...
Sep 26, 2025