Tag Archives: Politics

After several hours of debate, Regina city council is finalizing its budget for next year while reducing the property tax and utility rate increases. The mayor and councillors finalized the 2016 gener...

Regina city council will vote Monday on how much taxes will go up in 2016. The City of Regina released its proposed budgets for 2016 last month, which includes a tax hike of 2.9 per cent, with an addi...

The government of Saskatchewan has insisted from day one that its photo radar pilot project has never been about money, but one year into the two-year program we're learning that revenue consideration...

With refugees expected to start arriving in Canada as early as next week, the Government of Saskatchewan says they still don`t know exactly how many are coming to the province. Minister of Immigration...

Saskatchewan announced its strategy to improve the lives of people living with disabilities on International Day of Persons with Disabilities Thursday. "These six priority areas were chosen because th...

Federal and provincial immigration ministers are meeting in Ottawa this week, regarding the ongoing plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada in the coming months. Saskatchewan's Immigration Mini...

The Saskatchewan government is resuscitating a promise to eliminate emergency room waits. Health Minister Dustin Duncan says the province is planning a 60 per cent reduction by 2019, although the ulti...

Premier Brad Wall feels his time at the climate change summit in Paris was well spent. Wall went to promote SaskPower's carbon capture and storage project at Boundary Dam 3 as a solution to emissions ...

As it stands the average homeowner in Saskatoon will see another $65 dollars added to their property taxes next year, but that's likely to change. This week we find out how much taxpayers are on the h...

There's a bit more in the provincial bank but not enough to cover the financial hole Saskatchewan is in. The mid-year financial report was released by government Monday morning. It shows falling oil p...