For immediate release: April 24, 2025
Our frontline officers should be empowered to enforce trespass laws in businesses and public spaces, but the Sask. Party simply won’t fix the mental health and addictions crisis if there aren't enough professionals to actually do this work.
Every dollar the Sask. Party puts into the Marshals bureaucracy is effectively a dollar cut from local police services and frontline workers like the Saskatoon Fire Department.
Our police and frontline workers are completely run off their feet and need much more help than this. In Saskatoon, the Fire Department reports responding to 935 overdose calls so far this year.
The whole reason that bus drivers and library workers are being forced to deal with drugs and addictions is because the Sask. Party is essentially defunding frontline services and local police.
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REGINA — The Saskatchewan NDP and the ALS Society of Saskatchewan are calling on the Sask. Party Minister of Health to immediately launch a full investigation into the Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Centre in Moose Jaw.
REGINA – The Saskatchewan NDP is calling on the Provincial Auditor to launch a special investigation into the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety and the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA), following the government’s failure to properly maintain and deploy key firefighting aircraft during this year’s wildfire crisis.