Humboldt

Quebec Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia was elected Speaker of the House of Commons on Monday — after an unusually dramatic race that saw the only Conservative contenders drop out of the running at the last minute.

Conservative MPs Chris d'Entremont and John Nater both put their names forward but withdrew on the House floor before the election began Monday morning.

The Liberals currently have 169 seats in the minority Parliament, leaving them three seats shy of the 172 required for a majority.

Government House leader Steven MacKinnon says the NDP will not be granted official party status because the law says a party needs at least 12 seats to be recognized.

The NDP was reduced to just seven seats in last month's election.

Interim NDP Leader Don Davies has told The Canadian Press he spoke with the Prime Minister's Office about obtaining official party status for the NDP in the House of Commons.

Davies pointed to several past instances of provincial legislatures granting party status to an opposition party.

Several hundred people gathered at Saskatoon’s River Landing on Saturday, May 24 for this year’s IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s, the fundraising event that supports research to end the disease.  

Canadian rock veteran Ian Thornley of Big Wreck is bringing decades of musical grit and genre-blending sound to Humboldt as the band gears up to headline the Living Skies Music Festival.

Big Wreck officially came together in 1994, though their first album didn’t hit shelves until 1998.

“Yeah, however many years that is,” Thornley said with a laugh. “Somebody else do the math. Just don’t tell me.”

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MPs are returning to Ottawa for the opening of the 45th session of Parliament, and among them is Alberta Foothills MP John Barlow, the Conservative Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food. Barlow is gearing up for what he describes as a challenging time for both the country and the agriculture sector, particularly due to ongoing trade and tariff issues.

King Charles is set to open a new session of Parliament on Tuesday, seated in a throne that incorporates a piece of English walnut from Windsor Great Park, a preserve of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth.

The Royal Family connection is especially appropriate given that the Queen was the first sovereign to deliver a speech from the throne in Canada, a role usually fulfilled by the Governor General.

Talks between Canada Post and negotiators from its union are expected to resume over the next few days, its union said Sunday after the two parties met amid warnings of mail delivery delays tied to a national ban on overtime for postal workers.

In an afternoon statement, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said its negotiators had "worked hard to carefully evaluate" Canada Post's latest offers and prepare responses ahead of the day's meeting with the employer and the mediators. 

A researcher and associate professor at the University of Regina is encouraging teachers across Saskatchewan to help students adopt a ‘maker mindset’. 

In 2022, Cristyne Hebert began a research project that involved eight elementary school teachers at two Regina schools. The teachers were asked to implement more opportunities for creating and building into their lesson plans in an effort to help students problem solve, think critically, collaborate, and take risks. 

She says after establishing this ‘maker approach’, students were engaged in their work like never before. 

After three overdoses and a death, local police are warning of a dangerous illicit drug circulating in the Swift Current area.

Swift Current Municipal RCMP reported on May 20, 2025, that they were dispatched to assist EMS at three calls where individuals were suffering overdose symptoms.

One person was declared deceased by medical personnel.