Provincial Politics

Sask. government not in favour of western separation

While the idea of Western Canada separating from the rest of the country has been talked about in some corners of Saskatchewan and Alberta since the Liberal party won the federal election Monday, the ...

Oct 25, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Sask. Party shuts down emergency debate on education

The Saskatchewan NDP believes there's a crisis happening in the province's schools, but when its education critic tried to start an emergency debate on the subject after the first Question Period of t...

Oct 24, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

UCP government to table first budget, warns of program spending cuts

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is to table a budget today that will cut program spending by nearly three per cent. The budget is the first under Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative governmen...

Oct 24, 2019

Alberta education minister releases new guidelines for school seclusion rooms

EDMONTON - Alberta's education minister says seclusion rooms in schools will not be banned, but only used as a last resort when a student poses significant and imminent danger to themselves or others....

Oct 23, 2019

Alberta finance minister says first budget to attack spending, not services

EDMONTON - Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says the first budget of the new United Conservative government will surgically attack spending but not at the expense of essential services. Toews say...

Oct 23, 2019

Luseland student one of 12 selected for provincial youth council

Be it 4-H, dance or an array of clubs and sports teams in school, chances are Julie Patton is a part of it and doing what she can to help make it better.The 17-year-old Grade 12 student at Luseland Sc...

Oct 20, 2019 Grade 12 student at Luseland School Julie Patton is one of 12 selected to be part of Saskatchewan's first provincial youth council. (Submitted photo/Julie Patton)

Mayors discuss construction PST, prompt payment and 2024 election

Prompt payment to contractors, ongoing objections to Provincial Sales Tax (PST) on construction projects, and the 2024 provincial election were among the topics up for discussion by the 16-city Mayors...

Oct 18, 2019 (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)

Alberta introduces legislation allowing access to partner's criminal records

EDMONTON - Alberta is introducing legislation first developed in Britain that allows people in abusive relationships to request information about a partner's criminal record. Premier Ja...

Oct 16, 2019

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in Edmonton Friday for climate strike

EDMONTON - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is planning to be at the Alberta legislature Friday for a climate strike. Climate Justice Edmonton says the 16-year-old Stockholm student will join acti...

Oct 16, 2019

Alberta joining class-action lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, distributors

CALGARY - The Alberta government says it's joining a class-action lawsuit to recoup health-care costs related to the opioid crisis. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says there were almost 800 fatal overd...

Oct 15, 2019