Author Archives: Lisa Schick

On Thursday morning, Health Canada approved the first vaccine against COVID-19 that targets both the original virus and Omicron. The new shots from Moderna, called bivalent vaccines, are designed to r...

It has been a decade since legislation first required the school year in Saskatchewan to start after the Labour Day long weekend, and it has been eight years since that legislation was introduced to b...

Saskatchewan's children's advocate announced her investigation into allegations of abuse involving three Saskatchewan independent schools Tuesday - an investigation which Saskatchewan's education mini...

Premier Scott Moe isn't against the idea of government members meeting with victims of alleged abuse at some Saskatchewan independent schools. Some victims say they've been trying to meet with governm...

On Monday, Premier Scott Moe called the byelection for the Saskatoon Meewasin seat, which has been officially vacant for nearly two months. The call also came exactly one week after Moe announced on T...

In the last week, there has been some crotchety back and forth between the provincial and federal governments over federal workers testing water on private land in Saskatchewan. The provincial ministe...

While measures to help with affordability are all well and good — Carla Beck said her NDP has been pushing for that since the spring — the official Opposition thinks the Saskatchewan gover...

Canada's environment minister has sent a terse letter back in response to a terse and warning letter sent on the weekend by Saskatchewan's minister responsible for the Water Security Agency. "I believ...

As Teslas, IONIQs, and LEAFs become more popular in Saskatchewan, SaskPower is working on how to incorporate electric vehicles (EVs) into its plans for the future. Nathan Hoffart, manager of customer ...

With utility rates increasing in Saskatchewan on top of inflation, on top of two years of a pandemic, some small businesses are wondering if they can still make a go of it. Tim and Amy Weisgarber's bu...