Author Archives: Lisa Schick

Four days into the lockout at Regina's Co-op Refinery Complex, Unifor's national office claims the refinery is unsafe. On Monday, the union sent out a photo purported to show a tanker car from the ref...

When the bright orange ribbon was cut to officially open the Chinook natural gas power station on Friday morning, the plant had already been feeding power into the grid for weeks. The new station is a...

As workers are on the picket lines, and managers and replacement workers try to run Regina's Co-op refinery, the provincial government is keeping a close eye on all of it. "When you've got an employer...

With a bit of back and forth, and a kerfuffle over questions, the fall session of the Saskatchewan legislature ended on Thursday morning. Both leaders took a look back at the previous weeks, gauging t...

Concerns over fatigue and potentially less-experienced workers have an associate professor at the University of Regina watching the workers' dispute at the Co-op Refinery closely. The workers' union -...

The University of Regina campus is going to be blanketed with warnings about distracted driving for the next little while. The school launched its campaign on Wednesday, called simply "Don't text and ...

Community-based organizations (CBOs) in Saskatchewan want a bit more stability in their books, and they're asking for it from the provincial government. On Monday, representatives from a few different...

With some singing to "Jingle Bells" and others running around brandishing balloons and dolls, kids and volunteer "elves" filled the Oak Room at the Ramada Plaza Regina on Tuesday morning, just waiting...

On Monday -- one day after Premier Scott Moe signed a memorandum of understanding regarding small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) -- Saskatchewan's minister responsible for SaskPower said nuclear powe...

With boxes upon boxes stacked on top of each other, the warehouse for core samples at the Saskatchewan Subsurface Geological Lab stretches back nearly the length of a full city block. For those wantin...