Steven Wilson

Ahead of their annual convention in Regina next week, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities is expressing concerns about a lack of resources and education that is made available to elected officials who work in municipal government.  

Minister of Crown Investment Corporation Dustin Duncan found himself answering about expenses from his trip to Paris in November for the World Nuclear Exhibition. He was at the event in his role as the Minister Responsible for SaskPower and attended to participate in a panel with fellow ministers from Ontario and New Brunswick, as well as meet with representatives from countries and companies in the nuclear sector.  

In October, it was announced SaskEnergy stop collecting the carbon tax on home heating effective January 1st. The move was in response to the federal government announcing they were pausing the collection of carbon tax on home heating oil, and providing no further exemptions.  

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities will be holding their annual convention in Regina in two weeks, and the association’s president, Ray Orb, is looking forward to it.  

“I know there’s a lot of information sharing at those meetings, but the attraction, I know for me from attending these conventions for a number of years, is listening to the premier, it’s listening to the leader of the opposition, too,” Orb told Discover Weyburn.  

The official forecast for today is calling for a daytime high of 11°. While not quite a record, it will be quite the difference from the -21° that Estevan was at yesterday morning. It will be a swing of nearly 32 degrees in just under 36 hours.  

While that may be the forecast, not everyone agrees with it.  

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities is calling on the provincial government to do more regarding the staffing shortages when it comes to healthcare in rural Saskatchewan. The first step they are asking the province to take is the reinstatement of the Grow Your Own Nurse Practitioner Program.  

The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation announced the next round of rotating job action Tuesday morning, and the withdrawal of lunch hour supervision will be returning to southeast Saskatchewan by the end of the week.  

Every school year, there comes a short period where it seems every other person in the school is sick, be it students, teachers, or other staff. The types of illnesses seem to vary each year as well, but are in most cases illnesses which are easily passed from one person to another but aren’t necessarily severe.  

The Saskatchewan School Boards Association issued a statement Friday afternoon on the issue of class complexity, one of the key sticking points in the negotiations between the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation on a new collective bargaining agreement. The statements, from SSBA President Jaimie Smith-Windsor, call for a return to the bargaining table to reach a fair and reasonable agreement.  

Last week, federal NDP MP, and natural resources critic, Charlie Angus introduced a private members bill in the House of Commons that would ban what he called deceptive and misleading fossil fuel advertising. He said the bill would outlaw any marketing that would downplay emissions from the oil and gas sector or would promote oil and gas in ways that could be considered false, misleading or deceptive.