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NDP to focus on health care and keeping things affordable for Sask. residents during sitting
Ryan Meili is heading into one final sitting as the leader of the Saskatchewan NDP. Meili announced Feb. 18 that he would be stepping down as leader of the party, just days after the NDP lost the Atha...
Mar 07, 2022
Poilievre visits Sask. in Conservative leadership campaign stops
A man who wants to be Canada’s next prime minister spent some time in Saskatchewan this week. Pierre Poilievre is running for the leadership of the Conservative Party. He’s the only candid...
Mar 06, 2022
N.W.T. government says it didn't know plane was carrying Russian nationals
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories government says it had no idea there were two Russian nationals on board a plane that has been grounded in Yellowknife. The plane appeared to be on its way to R...
Mar 03, 2022
Why a photo of Freeland holding a black-and-red scarf sparked a firestorm online
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was photographed holding a scarf bearing colours associated with a far-right Ukrainian paramilitary group from the Second World War this past weekend. Both her ...
Mar 03, 2022
Carla Beck officially begins run for NDP leadership
In and among the machinery of a manufacturing plant, Carla Beck made her first pitch to be the new leader of the Saskatchewan NDP. Beck said she has been hearing from so many people that they want cha...
Mar 03, 2022
Ryan Meili to step aside when new Saskatchewan NDP leader elected
Ryan Meili has only one regret after serving almost four years as leader of the Saskatchewan NDP: His party wasn't better able to urge the provincial government to do more about the COVID-19 pandemic....
Feb 18, 2022 Ryan Meili announcing his resignation to media on Feb. 18, 2022 at his Saskatoon constituency office. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
Sask. Party breaks through with byelection win in northern Sask.
It appears that voters in northern Saskatchewan are sending former RCMP officer, Jim Lemaigre to the provincial legislature. Preliminary results of Tuesday's byelection in the constituency of Athabasc...
Feb 16, 2022 Saskatchewan Party candidate for Athabasca Jim Lemaigre (Facebook)
Voters head to the polls in northern Saskatchewan byelection
Athabasca constituents are heading to the polls on Tuesday in a byelection to choose a new MLA. The byelection was triggered in August 2021 after long-time NDP MLA Buckley Belanger resigned to pursue ...
Feb 15, 2022 Georgina Jolibois, left, Darwin Roy, center and Jim Lemaigre. (Submitted photos)
NDP leader calls on premier to release chief Sask. health officer recommendations
The province's official opposition wants to know what Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer is recommending, and it wants to see them followed. On Friday, NDP leader Ryan Meili called for all cu...
Jan 21, 2022 NDP leader Ryan Meili and health critic Vicki Mowat speak to reporters in front of Meili's constitutency office in Saskatoon on Jan. 21, 2022. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
Byelection in Athabasca riding to be held Feb. 15
A provincial byelection in the riding of Athabasca has been scheduled for Feb. 15. The seat has been vacant since August, when then-NDP MLA Buckley Belanger resigned to run for the Liberals in the fed...
Jan 18, 2022
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