Category Archives: Prairies/BC
Groups criticize Pacific salmon treaty, urge Alaska to protect B.C.-bound salmon
VANCOUVER — A coalition of Canadian groups is calling on Alaska's governor to stop the state's harvest of Canadian-bound salmon, while it criticizes the international treaty that prevents overfishing of Pacific salmon. Watershed Watch Salmon Society a...
Premier promises new health-care funding in Saskatchewan budget
REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says Wednesday's budget will show a boost to the bottom line from higher oil and potash prices and include more funding to help ease the strain COVID-19 put on health care. Moe said this week
Premier promises new health-care funding in Saskatchewan budget
REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says Wednesday's budget will show a boost to the bottom line from higher oil and potash prices and include more funding to help ease the strain COVID-19 put on health care. Moe said this week
Manitoba’s governing Progressive Conservatives keep stronghold in close byelection
WINNIPEG — Manitoba's governing Progressive Conservatives held on to one of their longtime strongholds by a narrow margin in a provincial byelection Tuesday. Voters in the Fort Whyte constituency in Winnipeg elected Obby Khan, a restaurant owner and fo...
Saskatchewan premier travelling to Europe to discuss food security, energy
REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he will be travelling to Europe later this week to discuss food security and energy during a trade mission. Although the trip was planned prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Moe said the war
Heather Stefanson’s leadership campaign reports $561K in expenses, slight surplus
WINNIPEG — Newly released documents show Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson spent a little more than $561,000 on her campaign to become leader of the governing Progressive Conservatives. In financial statements filed with Elections Manitoba, the Stefan...
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs appoints temporary leader due to investigation
WINNIPEG — An advocacy group representing First Nations in Manitoba has appointed a temporary leader while the organization investigates a formal complaint against a prominent chief. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says Eric Redhead will take on the r...
Two former football players among candidates in Manitoba byelection Tuesday
WINNIPEG — Voters in the suburbs of southwest Winnipeg are to go to the polls Tuesday in a traditional stronghold for the governing Progressive Conservatives. One political analyst says the opposition parties might have a chance in the upscale Fort Why...
Victoria police establishes ‘access points’ ahead of planned COVID protests
Victoria police say they are limiting vehicle access to the neighbourhood near the British Columbia legislature ahead of anticipated protests against COVID-19 measures. A statement Saturday says police will establish “controlled access points” in the ...
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs suspends leader after staffer makes formal complaint
WINNIPEG — A prominent First Nations chief in Manitoba has been suspended while the organization he represents investigates a complaint. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says in a statement that a senior staff member has filed a formal complaint agains...