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'A statement of respect:' Sask. MLAs unanimously pass poppy rights law
In a rare show of togetherness, all Saskatchewan MLAs voted together to immediately pass the government's poppy legislation after it was introduced on Wednesday. "I don't remember many times -- and I'...
Nov 02, 2023 Workplace and Labour Relations Minister Don McMorris. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'Carbon jail:' Duncan looking to shift responsibility to government on carbon tax
As it sets up a potential fight with the federal government over the carbon tax and home heating, Saskatchewan's government is also looking to make sure it's the only one in the crosshairs. Dustin Dun...
Nov 01, 2023 Crowns Minister Duncan Dustin said Tuesday he would likely be the one going to jail if the federal government pursues criminal charges when SaskEnergy stops paying the carbon tax in the new year. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'A constant worry': Family frustrated over health-care wait times
Both Morris and Ella Eagles are no strangers to cancer - each member of the married couple has had experience with it - but that hasn't made the weeks and weeks of waiting any easier. Recently, Ella h...
Nov 01, 2023 Morris and Ella Eagles spent weeks on wait lists and had to contend with old health-care equipment that broke down while trying to find out if she had cancer. (L to R, Vicki Mowat Sask. NDP health critic, Morris Eagles, Ella Eagles) Oct. 31, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'This is about fairness': Crowns minister explains new SaskEnergy carbon tax fight
As the weather continued its downward slide into winter on Monday, the Saskatchewan government announced it would be taking its next step in its long-standing opposition to the federal carbon tax, wit...
Oct 31, 2023 Minister responsible for SaskEnergy Dustin Duncan explained Monday how his government will stop the Crown collecting and remitting the carbon tax as of Jan. 1. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'We need to help them find a path': Gov't to move to recovery-based addictions system
As Saskatchewan is on track for another record year of drug overdose deaths, the provincial government appears to be narrowing its focus when it comes to mental health and addictions. In Wednesday's t...
Oct 27, 2023 Mental Health and Addictions Minister Tim McLeod. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Results of teacher sanctions vote expected Friday
On Friday morning, the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) is expected to release what job action could look like if contract talks with the provincial government continue to go nowhere. Last week...
Oct 27, 2023 Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation President Samantha Becotte says teachers don't want to strike but they know things can't continue down the path they are in classrooms. Oct. 25, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Affordability, home ownership likely in the cards for throne speech
On Wednesday afternoon, the Saskatchewan Party government will lay out its priorities in what will likely be the last Speech from the Throne before next fall's expected provincial election. Now that t...
Oct 25, 2023 Premier Scott Moe dropped a few hints about Wednesday's throne speech in an interview with John Gormley. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Sparring over notwithstanding clause as pronoun legislation debate nears end
While the hours left before the Saskatchewan government's pronoun legislation could become law dwindled on Thursday, the question of the use of the notwithstanding clause in the legislation came to th...
Oct 20, 2023 Saskatchewan Justice Minister and Attorney General Bronwyn Eyre is defending the use of the notwithstanding clause in the passage of the province's pronoun legislation. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Pronoun bill opponents decry lack of consultation
With just a few more hours left before debate finishes on the pronoun legislation in Saskatchewan, opposition to the bill wasn't finished Thursday morning. A group of Indigenous leaders and teens watc...
Oct 19, 2023 Tyler George, Saskatchewan's two-spirit representative to the Assembly of First Nations and a headperson for Ochapowace First Nation, says First Nations and two-spirit people were not consulted about the pronoun policy. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Pronoun legislation nearing the end of debate
By Thursday night, it could all be over but the formalities in the passing of the Saskatchewan Party's pronoun legislation. The government passed a doubling of the debate hours for Bill 137, from 20 t...
Oct 19, 2023 Marathon debate continues as the provincial government introduces "Parents' Bill of Rights." (File photo)
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