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NDP: Clarify Funding For Intermodal Facility
Posted: February 6, 2008
"We're in final negotiations on the provincial share on a $93-million deal, where very likely, the provincial share will be the greatest of the three partners involved." - Brad Wall, Speech to SUMA, Feb., 4, 2008 NDP Municipal Affairs critic Deb Higgins said today the Sask Party nee
What Is Sask Party Plan To Keep Schools Open?
Posted: February 7, 2008
"The criteria are being flushed out now, and I'm not sure of exactly what they'll be yet, but in the next few days, I understand the minister of education will have those criteria out to the boards and they'll be laid out in detail and the boards will have a good idea on how to appl
Urban Municipality Funding: Where Is It?
Posted: February 7, 2008
NDP Municipal Affairs critic Deb Higgins said today she expected to hear Brad Wall bring some much anticipated good news regarding revenue sharing to the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association convention being held in Regina. Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Hutchinson appears unwilling to bu
Weekend Meeting More Sask Party Spin
Posted: February 12, 2008
NDP leader Lorne Calvert said today a weekend meeting involving the Sask Party cabinet and the Saskatchewan federal Conservative caucus accomplished little. The two groups met at government house on Saturday to agree that the federal Tories didn't break a promise to fix the equalization formu
NDP Supports Jordan’s Principle
Posted: February 21, 2008
New Democrat MLAs used their first Caucus meeting of the New Year to pass a resolution endorsing "Jordan's Principle ". The NDP is also calling on the Sask Party government to do the same, and to work with the Federal government and First Nations for meaningful implementation. &
Sask Party Needs To Learn Private MRI Lessons
Posted: February 21, 2008
NDP Health Critic Judy Junor said today the Sask Party needs to check the facts on how private MRI clinics have failed in other provinces. In 2003, the Conservative government of Ernie Eves opened seven private MRI clinics in Ontario. The clinics poached staff from publicly funded hospitals, fo


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Danielle Chartier
Saskatoon Riversdale
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When the Sask Party hiked the price for camping in Provincial Parks, it claimed that Saskatchewan families weren't appreciating their parks enough.

"We do not have a gang or a violence issue in our provincial correctional system."

- Corrections Minister Darryl Hickie

NDP Health critic Judy Junor blasts McMorris for stalling on health care...
May 6, 2010
Health critic Judy Junor also blasted McMorris for the province's stalled kidney transplant program, the deferral of funding for 13 long-term care facilities and the recent decision to limit chiropractic coverage to low-income residents. Junor also said that the government should hand over the funding promised for the children's hospital rather than keep it within the holding company for the province's Crown corporations. "The minister has lost all credibility. Why should anyone trust that he can deliver on any of his promises?" Junor asked during question period. -The Leader-Post