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Last month Eden Community Care Homes announced closure of the Regina Lutheran Home. Now 62 residents and more than 100 staff members have an uncertain future. Both Val Schalme’s father and brother are at the home and the closure has her concerned. “My father has dementia. As do many of the residents there. Change like this […]

Rap artist. Journalist. Economics student. Premier. Wab Kinew’s path as a young man, including several brushes with the law and some convictions, did not appear a likely path tobecoming the first First Nations premier of a province. Kinew and the Manitoba NDP won a majority government Tuesday night, defeating the governing Progressive Conservatives and making […]

Liberal member of Parliament Greg Fergus has been elected the House of Commons Speaker in a historic mid-session vote.  Fergus, 54, was first elected in the riding of Hull–Aylmer in 2015.  As is tradition, the new Speaker was “dragged” to the chair in the House of Commons by the prime minister and Opposition leader today […]

Manitobans are to make history today as they cast final ballots in an election that has followed four weeks of promises, debates and controversial advertisements. If Heather Stefanson leads the incumbent Progressive Conservatives to a third consecutive majority, she would become the first woman to be elected premier in a Manitoba general election. Stefanson took […]

A blue container with thousands of letters was delivered to the Saskatchewan Legislature Monday by the Saskatchewan Alliance for Water Sustainability (SAWS). The letters contained comments and concerns from a wide-range of people about the provincial government’s Agricultural Water Stewardship Policy, which is in development and in a consultation period until the end of this […]

Members of Parliament will return to their seats in the House of Commons on Monday as the governing Liberals lay out new housing and cost-of-living initiatives hoping to end the beating their party is taking in the polls. While the Conservatives, whose own poll numbers are shining, return with a spring in their step, the […]

By The Canadian Press Manitoba’s provincial election has been called for Oct. 3. Here’s a look at the leaders of the province’s three parties that have seats in the legislature. Heather Stefanson, Progressive Conservative Leader Age: 53. Born May 11, 1970. Pre-Politics: Political science degree from the University of Western Ontario. Worked as a special […]

Its a trend that has been seen a long way down the road.  The Saskatchewan NDP have picked up two “city seats” in Regina, securing their hold on the urban centres of the province. The governing Saskatchewan Party also displayed its strength in the rural areas, holding on to the riding of Lumsden Morse, outside […]

You may have noticed some different messaging from Elections Saskatchewan during these three byelections in the Regina Area. There isn’t an election day, with advance polls in the days ahead.  Instead its been a “voting week”, with the final day of voting set for today (August 10th). This is going to be the new normal […]

The final list of approved candidates have been announced for the three provincial byelections happening in southern Saskatchewan. There are five candidates each for Regina Coronation Park and Lumsden-Morse, while four are vying for the Regina Walsh Acres Constituency. Regina Coronation Park: Noor Burki, New Democratic Party (N. D. P.) Olasehinde Ben Adebayo, Progressive Conservative […]