Author Archives: Lisa Schick

A new public awareness campaign to combat intimate partner violence is leaving one advocate wondering why she wasn't consulted. Saskatchewan's "Face the issue" campaign was announced by Justice Minist...

Taya Thomas has first-hand experience of what it's like when the school system doesn't have enough resources for a student. Her daughter, Mayelle, had special needs. "She was a wonderfully bright chil...

Just before the first payment of the new fiscal year is set to go out, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is confirming that people in Saskatchewan will still get the carbon tax rebate, now called the Ca...

Just like his finance minister, Premier Scott Moe wishes the 2024-25 provincial budget unveiled on Wednesday didn't have a deficit attached. But, Moe said, there's a need for new schools and a need fo...

Explaining how it's going to run the province, where the dollars are going to go and where its priorities lie, the Government of Saskatchewan is set to unveil its budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year We...

Cindy Ghostkeeper-Whitehead knew something was wrong when she heard her friend's voice on the phone on the morning of Sept. 4, 2022. "She said bad things are happening. She said people are getting sta...

The inquest into the stabbings on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon is heading into its fourth day on Thursday, but at least two people from the community have some concerns. Stewart Head does...

Though the emotions in the room were thick on Tuesday at the James Smith Cree Nation inquest, that didn't prevent lawyers or jurors from questioning the first witness. Keith Brown is the co-counsel re...

After stumbling off a bus and falling to the ground, a man stayed in the same place for seven hours in Regina in sub-zero temperatures, to be found dead the next morning after dozens of passersby neit...

For about two months, Saskatchewan has been hearing that most people in the province would no longer be paying the carbon tax on home heating as of the new year. But the realities around that have tur...