Ottawa promises to make RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina a national museum
REGINA -- The federal government is planning to designate the RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina as a national museum.
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Saskatchewan premier says U.S. midterm election result can reset trade relationship
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says the results from last night's U.S. midterm elections provide an opportunity for Canada to reset the relationship with its southern neighbour.
Bolstered carbon monoxide rules named after Regina boy now in effect
REGINA -- Saskatchewan regulations that bolster carbon monoxide monitoring are now in effect.
Saskatchewan bill to quicken testing for first responders exposed to possible viruses
REGINA -- First responders in Saskatchewan who worry they've been infected with viruses on the job will be able to get answers in hours, instead of days, under a new bill.
Saskatchewan throne speech promises more tax help, health-care investments
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's government is promising to continue cutting personal income taxes.
CP NewsAlert: Saskatchewan throne speech promises more tax help
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's government is promising to continue cutting personal income taxes.
Saskatchewan to unveil throne speech as legislative sessions starts
Saskatchewan's government is set to outline its legislative agenda today in its throne speech. Premier Scott Moe says the province plans to prioritize investments in health care, education, community safety and affordability. He says the throne speech will also promote the province as steady during a time of uncertainty.
Saskatchewan to unveil throne speech as legislative sessions starts
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government is set to outline its legislative agenda today in its throne speech.
Saskatchewan legislature to resume with throne speech, debates over affordability
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is set to face questions about affordability, health care and data centres when the legislature resumes Tuesday.
Saskatchewan politician says he paid nearly $30K for private jets; NDP wants answers
REGINA -- A Saskatchewan Party backbencher says he paid close to $30,000 out of his own pocket for two trips on a private jet and that one of those flights was for government business.
Saskatchewan politician says paid nearly $30K for private jets; NDP wants answers
A Saskatchewan Party backbencher says he paid close to $30,000 out of his own pocket for two trips on a private jet and that one of those flights was for government business. Kevin Weedmark released a letter Tuesday from Maurice Herauf, the province's conflict of interest commissioner, who provided his opinion on the airfare expenses. Herauf wrote in the Sept...
Saskatchewan politician says paid nearly $30K for private jets; NDP wants answers
REGINA -- A Saskatchewan Party backbencher says he paid close to $30,000 out of his own pocket for two trips on a private jet and that one of those flights was for government business.
Construction of Bell Canada's AI data centre in Saskatchewan scaling up
Saskatchewan's Crown investments minister stood Thursday in front of a skeleton of steel beams to tout progress on an artificial intelligence mega facility, while the Opposition again called on the province to consult first, then build. "We have just an amazing thing going on here behind us," Jeremy Harrison told reporters at the site, southeast of Regina. "Literally millions of...
Construction of Bell Canada's AI data centre in Saskatchewan scaling up
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's Crown investments minister stood Thursday in front of a skeleton of steel beams to tout progress on an artificial intelligence mega facility, while the Opposition again called on the province to consult first, then build.
Moe warns 'blood potash' part of Trump's planned deal with Belarus to thwart Canada
As U.S. President Donald Trump works on a deal to buy potash from Belarus to lessen dependence on Canadian fertilizer, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is warning that the eastern European country has blood on its hands. "More than 40 countries - Canada and its allies - have sanctions against Belarus for supporting war criminal (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's invasion of...
Moe warns 'blood potash' part of Trump's planned deal with Belarus to thwart Canada
REGINA -- As U.S. President Donald Trump works on a deal to buy potash from Belarus to lessen dependence on Canadian fertilizer, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is warning that the eastern European country has blood on its hands.
Trump's planned potash deal with Belarus to thwart Canada not so easy: analysts
As U.S. President Donald Trump works on a deal to buy potash from Belarus to lessen dependence on Canadian fertilizer, industry analysts say the proposal would likely be difficult and costly.
Saskatchewan says new data centres must be Canadian and supply own power
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government says companies planning to build data centres in the province must be Canadian.
Saskatchewan minister tells marshals to pause tactical unit, equipment purchase
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's marshals policing service has been ordered to pause development of a proposed tactical unit, and the community safety minister says a rogue employee is partly to blame.
Saskatchewan minister tells marshals to pause special unit, equipment purchase
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's community safety minister says he's told the province's marshals policing service to pause the development of a specialized tactical unit.
Saskatchewan provincial courts to allow use of eagle feathers when swearing oath
REGINA -- Those swearing oaths or making affirmations in Saskatchewan provincial courts can now do so with an eagle feather.
Saskatchewan Marshals Service seeks snipers, special gear for new unit
REGINA -- Saskatchewan is looking to buy some high-tech weaponry for its marshals police service, including sniper rifles, sound cannons and a thermal camera.
Saskatchewan to restructure income assistance program for those with disabilities
REGINA -- Saskatchewan residents receiving income assistance for disabilities will soon see changes to their benefits.
Saskatchewan ends fiscal year with $947-million deficit, expenses in health care up
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government is ending the last fiscal year deep in the red.
Saskatchewan NDP urges province to repeal pronoun law affecting LGBTQ+ youth
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's Opposition is urging Premier Scott Moe to do away with the province's pronoun law after it came into effect nearly three years ago.
Saskatchewan auditor finds public safety agency lacks planning to fight wildfires
REGINA -- A report from Saskatchewan's auditor says the province's public safety agency needs to do a better job at preparing for the wildfire season.
Saskatchewan wildfires force out 1,200 people; evacuation order ends near Shellbrook
REGINA -- A wildfire evacuation order has been lifted in northern Saskatchewan but about 1,200 people elsewhere in the province remain out of their homes.
Saskatchewan wildfires force out 1,300 people; progress made on blaze near Shellbrook
REGINA -- More than 1,300 Saskatchewan residents remain out of their homes as two wildfires continue to spread in northern areas of the province.
Premier Moe says new trade deal with India would benefit Saskatchewan despite tariffs
REGINA -- As Ottawa appears to inch closer to a trade deal with India, Premier Scott Moe says he hopes the agreement addresses punishing tariffs on pulse crops.
Female politicians in Saskatchewan to get own washroom, 110 years later
REGINA -- Female politicians in Saskatchewan's legislature will soon have their own designated washroom after going without one for over 110 years.
Saskatchewan's plan to extend life of coal power to cost $26B over 25 years
REGINA -- New figures from Saskatchewan's electrical utility show it will cost about $1 billion a year to extend the life of the province's coal plants.
Former Saskatchewan NDP member sitting as Independent says she was muzzled
REGINA -- A Saskatchewan legislature member says she left the Opposition NDP because she was told to keep quiet rather than speak out on a law that can force drug treatment on those battling addictions.
Saskatchewan NDP legislature member to sit as Independent, says can't support leader
REGINA -- A Saskatchewan Opposition NDP member is now sitting as an Independent.
Saskatchewan to use massive postcard mail-out to gauge citizens on internet controls
REGINA -- The Saskatchewan government is promising a mass mail-out of postcards to gauge citizen opinions on whether to put fences around the internet.
'Henry's Law:' Saskatchewan strengthens carbon monoxide monitoring after boy's death
REGINA -- Saskatchewan is bolstering rules on carbon monoxide monitoring after an 11-year-old Regina boy was killed by the colourless, odourless gas.
Saskatchewan to run postcard survey on social media ban
REGINA -- The Saskatchewan government is launching a postcard survey to determine next steps on a possible social media ban for children.
Saskatchewan law that allows owners to store prohibited firearms now in effect
REGINA -- A Saskatchewan law that allows residents to store prohibited firearms is now in effect.
Saskatchewan to provide more regular updates of ER closures
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government says residents are to get status updates sooner about whether hospital emergency rooms are closed.
Saskatchewan to change time bill in recognition of Alberta boundary communities
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government has introduced a bill that would change how time is governed in communities that straddle the Alberta boundary.
Saskatchewan to provide more regular updates of emergency room closures
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government says residents are to get status updates sooner on whether emergency rooms in their local hospitals are closed.
Saskatchewan child advocate warns of drug exposure deaths in those under age five
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's child advocate is flagging an emerging pattern of young children who died with fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine in their systems.
Saskatchewan ombudsman says government slow in responding to wildfire evacuees
REGINA -- The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency failed to respond in a timely fashion to many wildfire evacuees last summer, the province's ombudsman said Thursday.
Saskatchewan monitoring Alberta's daylight time plan, may change law
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government says it may amend its time legislation depending on what Alberta does with its clocks.
Saskatchewan to test out technology that detects drones smuggling drugs into prisons
REGINA -- Saskatchewan is taking aim at reducing the rise in drugs and weapons being dropped by drones into prison yards - sometimes right to an inmate's cell window.
'It felt like a paywall': Saskatchewan calls cut on movie rating requirements
REGINA -- Some local theatres in Saskatchewan are hoping to see more independent films up on the big screen after the provincial government decided to end mandatory movie ratings.
Doctors speak out on Saskatchewan's forced drug treatment legislation
REGINA -- Groups that represent doctors in Saskatchewan are speaking out on a bill that proposes to force treatment on those battling drug addictions.
'Long overdue': Prairie farmers welcome renewal of poison to target pesky gophers
Prairie farmers say a move by Ottawa to temporarily lift a ban on a rodent poison is a good start to address rampant gopher populations that have decimated crops and injured livestock.
Saskatchewan cancels funding to Prairie Harm Reduction, consumption site closed
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government has cancelled funding to a Saskatoon-based harm reduction organization that's facing financial turmoil and a temporary shutdown of its supervised drug consumption site.
'Neighbours hating each other': Proposed Saskatchewan wind farm divides community
Don Bourassa says a proposed wind farm near his home in southeast Saskatchewan has ruined relationships in his community -- to the point where he feels he has been bullied.
Saskatchewan minister says rural municipality will be supported after resignations
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's municipal affairs minister says the province will support a rural municipality outside Regina after four of its council members resigned.
Saskatchewan introduces budget with spending hikes but also $819-million deficit
REGINA -- Saskatchewan has introduced a new budget that avoids tax hikes and program cuts but carries with it a big deficit.
Saskatchewan to deliver deficit budget, promises to 'protect' public services
Saskatchewan's government is planning to table a deficit budget today in a move that Premier Scott Moe says protects public services. Moe has not said how large the deficit will be but says the province's economy is strong enough to weather global uncertainty. He has said market volatility, including China's previous tariffs on Canadian canola, have caused revenues to shrink.
Saskatchewan to deliver deficit budget, promises to 'protect' public services
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government is planning to table a deficit budget today in a move that Premier Scott Moe says protects public services.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says deficit budget aims to protect public services
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a deficit budget he's to unveil tomorrow aims to protect services, with more dollars going toward health care.
Saskatchewan Premier Moe lauds gun legislation from 'hottest' justice minister
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe trumpeted new gun legislation passed Wednesday by his government, while praising his justice minister as "the hottest lawyer in the province."
Premier Moe hits back at Ottawa's gun buyback program through certificate exemptions
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government is fighting back against Ottawa's gun buyback program through measures it says aim to protect firearm owners.
Saskatchewan minister says he'll have meeting at library after reports of violence
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's social services minister says he's scheduling a meeting at Saskatoon's downtown library following complaints of violence and social disorder.
Saskatchewan daycare operators say child-care coverage not as advertised
REGINA -- Some Saskatchewan daycare operators say the province's new child-care agreement is hitting parents with higher, unexpected fees.
Saskatchewan daycare operators say child care coverage not as advertised
REGINA -- Some Saskatchewan daycare operators say the province's new child care agreement is hitting parents with higher, unexpected fees.
'Snowflake!': Saskatchewan politicians spar over executive pay, Lutnick meeting
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's legislature began with a raucous start Monday as politicians returned for the spring sitting, levelling accusations of pearl clutching and being unserious.