We may just be weeks into the new school, but the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) is already raising concerns about how the needs of students will be met. Samantha Becotte, the President of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation, said there call comes after the provincial budget did not provide enough funding to support existing resources in […]
The chief of a Saskatchewan First Nation that was the site of a series of deadly stabbings earlier this month is heading to Toronto for a meeting with federal cabinet ministers. Chief Wally Burns of James Smith Cree Nation says his community has been left broken and saddened by the violence. On Sept. 4, 10 people were […]
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is defending the RCMP’s decision not to release details surrounding the death of the man accused in a mass stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan. Mendicino says he understands the sense of urgency people feel about knowing how Myles Sanderson died after he was arrested on a rural stretch of highway in […]
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has set aside a temporary injunction that prevented a lawsuit filed by some grieving parents of those who died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash from going ahead. Sixteen people were killed and thirteen were injured in 2018, when an inexperienced truck driver barreled through a stop sign and into […]
Councillor Terina Shaw is looking to ‘set the record straight’ with Regina residents after comments she made earlier this year. Those comments include, during a January 26 meeting of Regina’s executive council, she made comments that implied Indigenous men are sexual predators. The second set of comments came during a June 15 city council meeting, […]
SaskPower has identified the Estevan and Elbow areas for future study as the host of small modular reactors (SMR). The Estevan study area includes the areas around Boundary/Rafferty Dam and the Grant Devine Dam. The Elbow study area encompasses the area around Lake Diefenbaker, from Gardiner Dam to the Diefenbaker Dam. To select these study […]
Two men are facing weapons charges, including possession of explosives. Both 26-year-old Danton Bitternose and 20-year-old Ethan Fiddler were arrested and charged after an incident at a Regina business on Monday. At 7:50 a.m., police were dispatched to a building on the 2100 block of Broad Street as one man was trying to steal items […]
According to the Transportation Safety Board, two people have died after a plane crash on Sunday near the Town of Shaunavon. The federal agency said that a Cessna 172 took off from Swift Current on Sunday morning, headed to Estevan for a pipelined inspection. The plane crashed over 11 kilometres south-southwest of Shaunavon. Officials say […]
Statistics Canada says the national year-over-year inflation rate was 7.0 per cent in August, marking the second consecutive month inflation has slowed on an annual basis. In its latest consumer price index report, the federal agency says lower gas prices have largely driven the slowdown. Excluding gasoline prices, year-over-year inflation was 6.3 per cent, making […]
A new poll suggests a plurality of Canadians still believe Justin Trudeau is still the best man for the job of prime minister, but he has only a slight lead over new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Leger has released the findings of an online survey conducted over the weekend with around 1,500 respondents. The results suggest the Liberals’ […]
