Author Archives: Lisa Schick

Jolene Van Alstine has been so sick, for so long, she's been approved for Medical Assistance in Dying. The Regina woman has a rare parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism, whic...

Halfway through the fiscal year, the provincial government is projecting a deficit 35 times larger than the surplus it budgeted for in the spring. The fiscal update showed a $427 million deficit forec...

Among the things no new mother wants to see in her hospital room are cockroaches, but that's what happened at the Regina General Hospital in October. According to Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill, ther...

On Monday morning, the courtroom where the extortion trial for Harpinder Singh Bajwa was empty. His trial was scheduled to start that day, but on Thursday afternoon the Crown sent written instructions...

Finance and National Revenue Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne said you can't be in Saskatchewan without thinking about nuclear. The minister took part in an armchair discussion on Thursday with SUM...

Addictions continue to tear apart lives and families in Saskatchewan and across the country, with governments trying to figure out a solution. As part of that, the Saskatchewan NDP's mental health and...

Premier Scott Moe saw the trade talks between Canada and the U.S. fall apart recently, and said he quickly firmed up his plans for another trade mission to Washington. "We thought it would be prudent ...

The provincial government announced on Wednesday, it's upping its funding to one of the most pervasive problems in the provinces - homelessness. It's adding $20 million in funding over three years to ...

The flags were lowered to half-staff at the legislative building on Tuesday at the news of the death of former MLA and cabinet minister Herb Cox. He was 75. Cox was first elected as the Sask. Party ML...

With a guilty verdict already on the books, Crown prosecutor Adam Breker said the Misha Pavelick murder case was one of the largest he's been involved with. The trial lasted four weeks from beginning ...