Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Speaker Randy Weekes cuts up Sask. Party membership card
A long-serving MLA appears to be cutting ties with the Saskatchewan Party. Randy Weekes, who has served as Speaker of the House in the Legislative Assembly since 2020, shared a photo on social media l...
May 16, 2024 Randy Weekes posted an image of his Sask. Party membership cut in half on Wednesday night. (Randy Weekes/Twitter)
Wisconsin election officials fear voter confusion over 2 elections for same congressional seat
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin election officials voted Thursday to provide more details to voters than normal to avoid confusion about a ballot that will have both a special and regular election for ...
May 16, 2024
FDIC chair is grilled on Capitol Hill after report outlines agency's toxic workplace culture
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg sat for a second day of grilling Thursday on Capitol Hill, this time at the Senate Banking Committee, after a damning report...
May 16, 2024
Quebec media say new bill to protect politicians is excessive, harms free speech
MONTREAL - Quebec newsroom leaders are calling out a new bill to protect politicians from abuse, saying the legislation is excessive and potentially stifling to democratic debate. Media companies - in...
May 16, 2024
House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden Thursday for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans wo...
May 16, 2024
'Enough is enough': Saskatchewan Speaker says he was repeatedly harassed, threatened
REGINA - The Speaker of the Saskatchewan legislature has cut up his party membership card and accused some members in Premier Scott Moe's caucus of intimidating him to the point that he fears the gove...
May 16, 2024
Harris accepts debate invite to face off with Trump's VP pick, which may come at convention
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CBS News to debate former President Donald Trump's vice presidential pick this summer, the Biden campaign said Thursday, ...
May 16, 2024
Maverick Kentucky congressman has avoided fallout at home after antagonizing GOP leaders
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has made a habit of antagonizing Washington's most powerful leaders in his own party, but so far it hasn't eroded his support back home in his staun...
May 16, 2024
Ontario warns Toronto Public Health to drop drug decriminalization application
TORONTO - Ontario has warned Toronto Public Health's top doctor to drop the city's drug decriminalization application or prepare for the province to "explore all options" available. But Dr. Eileen de ...
May 16, 2024
Last day of session looms for MLAs not running in upcoming election
With the next provincial election just months away, some MLAs will be taking their seats in the assembly for the final time on Thursday. Some have chosen not to go back. Thirteen Saskatchewan Party ML...
May 16, 2024
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