Tag Archives: Provincial Politics
PA Police and defence lawyer respond to proposed bail reform
Sweeping changes to Canada's bail and sentencing rules are expected to be tabled by the federal government next week, but they are already being welcomed by the head of the Prince Albert Police Servic...
Oct 17, 2025
Feds announce $69.5 million for Sask. infrastructure projects
Federal and provincial leaders were in Air Ronge on Thursday to announce an investment of $69.5 million through the Canada Community Building Fund (CCBF). Those present for the announcement included M...
Oct 16, 2025
There are lessons to be learned from Canada’s wildfire season and evacuations
WINNIPEG - Governments and non-profit groups are taking time to review this year's wildfire season and the unprecedented challenges posed by evacuating tens of thousands of people across wide swaths o...
Oct 12, 2025
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