Category Archives: Post to Social

Saskatchewan to increase minimum wage to $11.81 on Oct. 1
After all the salutes to frontline workers, the hearts on windows and the hailing of essential workers as heroes, Carla Beck says those words ring hollow without fair compensation.The NDP's labour cri...
Jun 04, 2021

R.M. of North Battleford reinstates fire ban
A fire ban is coming back to the Rural Municipality of North Battleford.The RM decided to issue the ban on Thursday due to dry conditions. The region is seeing temperatures well above seasonal average...
Jun 03, 2021

18U Beavers to begin season next week
The 18U AA Beavers will open their baseball season next week in Unity. Following an abbreviated season last year that didn't begin until the brink of the summer, the Saskatchewan Premier Baseball Leag...
Jun 03, 2021

Battlefords families enjoy summer heat
Residents in the Battlefords and area that weren't at work or in the classroom took advantage of warm weather on Thursday.Much of the community was quiet on a Thursday that saw the afternoon tie the r...
Jun 03, 2021

Drive-thru vaccine clinics reopening in Prince Albert and North Battleford
As of today, those eligible for their second COVID-19 vaccine dose include residents 65 years and older.Those eligible also include anyone who had their first dose on or before March 22, people who ar...
Jun 03, 2021

Local golf course receives special cart for those with mobility issues
The North Battleford Golf and Country Club received a gift from Golf Saskatchewan this week. A special single-rider adaptive golf cart, known as the SoloRider, is now available for those with mobility...
Jun 03, 2021

Battlefords Regional Community Coalition mourns loss of 215 children
The Battlefords Regional Community Coalition (BRCC) leaders are mourning for the 215 children found buried at the site of the former Kamloops residential school recently.Chief Wayne Semaganis, of Litt...
Jun 03, 2021

100,000 Saskatchewan residents now fully vaccinated against COVID-19
The Saskatchewan government reported today that over 100,000 Saskatchewan residents have been fully vaccinated and an additional 14,579 vaccines have been administered. This brings the total numbers v...
Jun 03, 2021

Two years after MMIWG report, Ottawa releases preliminary national plan
OTTAWA - Two years after the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its sweeping findings, a plan to move forward on its 231 calls to justice is finally being p...
Jun 03, 2021

‘The scariest night’: Survivor remembers 10 years in Sask. residential school
Just off Highway 15 on the Muskowekwan First Nation, hidden from the road by trees, stands a relic of pain and hurt for many in the community.It's the last fully intact residential school building in ...
Jun 03, 2021