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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SASKATOON – Dozens of new Saskatchewan residents and young people joined the Saskatchewan NDP today to call out a Sask. Party proposal that would strip them of their voice in the political process.
REGINA – Today, the Saskatchewan NDP held a reception at the legislature to honour Brenda Reynolds, a status treaty member of the Fishing Lake Saulteaux First Nation. Reynolds is the first Indigenous person and first Canadian to receive the UN Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize which is awarded to two recipients every five years.