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Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government is to outline its priorities in a throne speech today — a month after the Oct. 28 election delivered the party a slimmer majority in the legislature.  Moe says his government plans to start working on affordability issues, including a promise to reduce personal income tax rates. The provincial government also […]

REGINA – Former Saskatchewan Party MLA and Speaker Randy Weekes has made it official — he’s supporting the NDP. “Yes I have Endorsed Carla Beck and the NDP. It’s time for a change,” posted Weekes on the X platform. The endorsement comes soon after Weekes has said Tuesday that a caucus staff member had overheard David […]

A Saskatchewan Party candidate apologized Tuesday after it came to light that he used a racial slur in the government caucus office a year ago. David Buckingham, who is running again in Saskatoon Westview in the Oct. 28 election, said it was wrong. “There was one occasion where I repeated a racially inappropriate word, as I was […]

Saskatchewan’s Opposition is calling on the Speaker to set the wheels in motion for a third-party investigation into gun-carrying and bullying behaviour inside the legislature. NDP democracy critic Meara Conway told reporters Tuesday that Speaker Randy Weekes chairs the all-party house services committee and could call for that panel to vote on whether to launch […]

Saskatchewan’s finance minister was ordered to apologize Monday after she sent the Speaker a text accusing him of letting the legislature devolve into an “Opposition puppet show.”  Donna Harpauer delivered the apology in the house after Speaker Randy Weekes said the minister had messaged him saying government members can’t push back during chamber debates and that as […]

House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota is resigning after he invited a man who fought for the Nazis to attend a speech that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered to Canada’s Parliament last week. The Liberal MP, who was first elected Speaker in December 2019, shared his decision ahead of question period in the House of Commons today, referring […]