Provincial Politics

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)

P4 Trapping Block council calls for moratorium on logging

Members of the P4 Trapping Block at the north end of Montreal Lake are calling on the provincial government to immediately impose a moratorium on all logging practices in the area. In a letter to Mini...

Oct 30, 2019 The provincial government confirmed it received the letter. (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)

Students and community stage "peaceful protest," after allegations school janitor told not to speak Cree

Over 100 people, representing a number of communities from across the region, travelled to the small hamlet of Timber Bay on Montreal Lake on Wednesday, to show their support for a woman who was alleg...

Oct 24, 2019 (Submitted photo)

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

"We made history here today": new northern education authority celebrates launch

A first of its kind education authority in Canada was officially launched on Wednesday in downtown Prince Albert.The creation of the Athabasca Denesuline Education Authority has represented two years ...

Oct 23, 2019 (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)