Tag Archives: Politics

The Sask. Party has announced its candidate in a byelection set for the Saskatoon-Meewasin riding.   More than 200 party members voted to nominate Brent Penner Monday nig...

Leadership hopeful Kevin O'Leary is promising a majority for the Conservative Party of Canada in 2019. In an interview Thursday on Gormley, the recently anointed frontrunner in the 14-deep field of ca...

The Canadian Union of Public Employees is concerned the provincial government is moving too fast with plans to change education.   An advisory panel of six people was appointed in December t...

A familiar face will be representing the NDP in an upcoming byelection in the Saskatoon-Meewasin riding.   Dr. Ryan Meili won the party's nomination Monday night.   Meili operates a med...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is coming to Saskatoon. Trudeau will be holding a town hall Wednesday at the Dub Theatre at the University of Saskatchewan. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Regina-Wascana Member ...

A supervised injection site is a matter of when - not if - as far as the chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council is concerned. "It'll happen in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, all the major cities. An...

Many are having mixed emotions over the province's push to add private liquor sales in Saskatchewan. On Wednesday, the province revealed who will run 50 new private liquor stores in Saskatch...

"Stick to sports!" It's a comment we hear sometimes on The Green Zone when Woodsy, Jamie Nye and I veer away from discussing hockey or football. Someone will call or text us, imploring that we stop ta...

Another Saskatchewan political party will have to look for a new leader - on Saturday, Rick Swenson announced he was stepping down as the leader of the province's Progressive Conservative party. In a ...

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is coming out in favour of the provincial government's plans to increase penalties for impaired driving.   Wendell Waldron, a MADD community leader based...