Hayden Michaels

The Sask. Teachers Federation has released details regarding the latest tentative bargaining agreement.

After months of back and forth, job action, and walking away from the bargaining table, the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee and the Teachers' Bargaining Committee have found terms both sides find amicable. 

They are as follows.

Term of the Tentative Agreement 

Even with the deadline of 2050 still a long way away, the recent Memorandum of Understanding between the westernmost prairie provinces promises good economic growth. 

Alberta and Sask. both entered into the MOU on nuclear power generation last week, ensuring the need for sustainable and reliable energy that can meet demands is a joint effort and concern. 

For the communities up for consideration of SaskPower's Small Modular Reactors, like Estevan, the promise of nuclear power industry grows all the more enticing. 

The Village of Richmound’s battle with an unwelcome guest continues.

The small community, situated south of Leader, has been stressed since Romana Didulo and her followers moved into the former Richmound School property in Sept. of 2023.

Over the last eight months, the situation has become more strenuous, after residents have held protests, and Didulo and her followers have continued their presence in the village.

On Sunday, Swift Current City RCMP discovered a deceased woman, whose cause of death is as of this time unknown.

The 40-year-old unidentified female was discovered when City RCMP responded to an EMS call for assistance at 5:06 p.m. She is described as having been non-responsive before being declared deceased.

She was discovered in a commercial dwelling unit on 21st Avenue Northeast. 

City RCMP is continuing to investigate the circumstances of her death in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Coroners Service.  

The carbon tax protest at the border yesterday hopes to change the game for those more affected by the carbon tax.

On Monday, the federal government enacted a $15 a tonne jump on the tax, which has had a ripple effect across the southwest Saskatchewan population.

Some residents feel like this change in taxation is uncalled for, and unwanted. This unified a group of individuals to come together and protest the carbon tax increase, parking for kilometres along the side of the Trans-Canada Highway at the Saskatchewan-Alberta Border. 

Swift Current City RCMP has shared some additional information and insights on Lane Anthony Purves. 

Purves was issued an arrest warrant yesterday. The RCMP is charging him with 10 offences, and are actively searching for him.

As it turns out, Purves is also wanted by Assiniboia RCMP. He is known to frequent both there and Swift Current, along with Maple Creek, Regina, and Moose Jaw.

Original story by Hayden Micheals can be found here.

Hundreds of people came out in support of Swift Current’s Chris Barber over the weekend.

The Stockade Building in Kinetic Park was filled to bursting as over 650 people came and went throughout the evening. All of them paid $50 for their ticket, which bought them a meal, live entertainment, and a chance to support the man they were gathered for.

While most may already know it, police do have the right to ask for a roadside breathalyzer test.

Not only do they have a right to ask, an individual must comply. This has been the case since federal legislation made it the law in 2018.

However, some people mistakenly believe that they have to consent to the test. This is a mistaken assumption, which can incur some major penalties.

Tyler McMurchy, spokesperson for SGI, encourages people to cooperate before things escalate to the point of those penalties.

A Saskatchewan man has been charged by the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit. 

Derrick Heebner was charged on Feb. 13 after an online investigation led to the execution of a search warrant for his home. 

The charges are for luring a child by means of telecommunication to commit an invitation to sexual touching, and for possession of child pornography.

The 56-year-old has appeared in Swift Current Provincial Court and has been released on conditions. His next court date is set for March 13, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. in Swift Current. 

SaskPower is issuing a heads-up about a new text message scam circulating. 

The scam is a text claiming to be from SaskPower, saying that a portion of a recent bill is unpaid. It then asks you to remedy the owing amount, with a provided link.

A spokesperson for SaskPower, Scott McGregor, advises caution should you see one of these texts, discouraging any engagement with the links. 

"Under no circumstances should anybody click the link or provide any sort of financial or personal information," said McGregor.