Saskatoon City Hospital is once again reducing ER hours as Saskatoon’s emergency capacity remains in crisis
SASKATOON – As Saskatoon City Hospital’s emergency room sees further chaos due to the Sask. Party’s failed healthcare recruitment strategy, the Saskatchewan NDP called for immediate action to hire more doctors, reduce healthcare bureaucracy and add capacity to Saskatoon’s emergency rooms.
The Saskatchewan NDP is raising concerns over the closure of emergency rooms in Porcupine Plain and Tisdale, which will leave rural residents without access to life-saving care when they need it most.
Strategy would see more Saskatchewan steel jobs, more Saskatchewan steel products and more Saskatchewan steel on public builds and contracts
MARTENSVILLE – Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck says we should be buying more Saskatchewan-made steel, building more steel products here at home and creating more steel jobs to build up the industry. Her calls come in response to newly announced tariffs that could amount to 50 per cent on Canadian steel and aluminum.
Fran Forsberg had heard how bad the state of emergency rooms was but didn’t understand the crisis until she experienced it herself
SASKATOON – Following hours spent in a Saskatoon emergency room, Fran Forsberg was shocked at the current level of care and chaos in Saskatchewan healthcare. She joined Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Minister of Health Vicki Mowat to raise alarms, call for change and issue a blunt challenge to Premier Scott Moe and Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill.
Beck says urgent action needed to protect Saskatchewan jobs and livelihoods
REGINA – Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck is calling for the provincial legislature to sit immediately in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs on Saskatchewan steel. Beck is also adding her voice to growing calls for retaliatory tariffs and a desperately needed pipeline running to Canada’s East Coast.
Sask. NDP calls for more educational assistants and funding for Saskatchewan classrooms
SASKATOON – Today, Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Minister for Education Matt Love – along with several Sask. NDP MLAs – joined with parents and educators calling for the province to take responsibility for public education and fund more desperately needed educational assistants in light of Saskatoon Public School Board being forced to lay off 80 positions due to a lack of funding.