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The Liberal government’s changes to capital gains taxation came into effect Tuesday, despite significant pushback from business and physicians’ groups. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s spring budget proposed making two-thirds of capital gains — the profit made on the sale of assets such as a secondary residence or stocks — taxable, rather than one-half. For individuals’ capital gains of $250,000 or less, […]

The Saskatchewan NDP is asking the speaker of the legislature to convene the Standing Committee on House Services, to probe allegations made by the speaker on the last day of the sitting last month. As the house was about to adjourn for the summer, and more than likely, until an election in October, Randy Weekes […]

An NDP MP says she hopes the polarized House of Commons will continue to put partisanship aside to pass her bill to criminalize coercive control this week, after hearing hundreds of personal stories about intimate partner violence.  Laurel Collins says legislators from across party lines have supported her private member’s bill, which seeks to criminalize […]

The federal New Democrats want a price cap on grocery store staples if the Liberal government can’t convince grocers to bring down the prices themselves.  For months, the Liberals have been trying to get big grocers in Canada to sign a code of conduct that they say will bring down food prices for everyone. And […]

REGINA — The Saskatchewan NDP are painting Sask Party Cabinet Minister Jeremy Harrsion as a liar about recent revelations he brought a hunting gun to the legislature. The NDP is accusing Harrison of lying when he denied claims made by the speaker of the house on the last sitting day of the legislature last month.  […]

A provincial cabinet minister who initially told the premier he didn’t bring a long gun into the legislature, only to reverse himself days later, says talks with family members helped jog his memory. Jeremy Harrison says while recently talking about hunting in the Regina area, there was a “flash” in his mind of him walking past legislature […]

The opposition New Democrats grilled the government Tuesday over the latest hip and knee replacement numbers, including still-long average wait times compared to the rest of the country. The NDP pointed to national data with numbers showing 44 percent of hip replacements and 31 percent of knee replacements in Saskatchewan hitting wait time benchmarks, according […]

As the proposed Bunge-Viterra merger makes it way through the regulatory approval process of the Competition Bureau, it was a featured topic of debate in the Saskatchewan Legislature Thursday. It surfaced in Question Period when NDP Ag Critic Trent Wotherspoon accused the SaskParty government of being silent over the file. Wotherspoon says he asked Agriculture […]

 The Legislature was in full reaction mode to speculation on Thursday that Farm Credit Canada might be about to move its head office out of Saskatchewan. The issue was raised in the Legislative Assembly by Sask United Leader Nadine Wilson, with her party putting out a statement that claimed that “multiple high-level sources have told Sask […]

 Executives with Shercom Industries were in Regina Tuesday looking to set the record straight over what has gone on with tire processing in the province of Saskatchewan. In particular, President Shane Olson and Chief Operating Officer Mike Richards raised concerns about decisions made by Tire Stewardship of Saskatchewan and the role of the Ministry of Environment […]