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Flooding v2.0?

Premier Brad Wall's statement Wednesday that the provincial government will try to take quick measures over the winter to prevent spring flooding underlines what many weather-savvy Saskatchewanians...

 
 
 

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Some Canadians have so enthusiastically congratulated themselves for being citizens of a country that largely sidestepped the 2008 global financial crisis that they've forgotten how Canada did this.
 
 
 

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When the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region (RQHR) announced earlier this week it was contracting a private company to provide thousands of extra CT scans, it seemed like a clear win-win for patients and the health system.
 
 
 
 
 

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Province's top Mountie is a unique role model

It's another Saskatchewan first -- and the timing couldn't be better.


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Ottawa clipping the wings of flight security officers

There's a not-insignificant chance that some Saskatchewan travellers flying to or from the Regina and Saskatoon airports have sat next to a passenger armed with a gun.


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Downtown revitalization: Regina shows the way

It's a pessimistic appraisal that sounds awfully familiar:


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Water: getting a handle on a precious resource

It's become a "given" for city slickers -- turn on the tap and water flows.


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Privacy concerns being written off

Insuring vehicles in the province is one thing; ensuring the personal information of Saskatchewan drivers is fully protected quite another.


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Saskatchewan needs to move it

Here's the good news for all those people sweating through another New Year's resolution to lose weight and get fit -- the bar has been lowered.


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Class of 2010 did better, but more effort indicated

It's got as many cold, hard numbers as a math textbook, but the latest study of the province's prekindergarten to Grade 12 education system is anything but a dull read.


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Not all baby boomers are the retiring types

Thousands of Saskatchewan baby boomers will hit 65 this year, but don't bet on them all settling for an easy chair and a life of leisure.


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More debate needed on city's $150 recycling plan

Two years after it launched a public consultation on a long-term waste management plan and called it "Let's Talk Trash", the City of Regina is now on the receiving end of some real trash talk from citizens. News that the city plans to charge households up to $150 a year more for garbage collection to fund a curbside recycling program has provoked cries of "rubbish!"


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A Happy New Year? More like a taxing one

Prepare to dig a little deeper in 2011 -- and not just to pay off the bills for your Christmas gift buying and entertaining.


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Nothing to sneeze at: flu returns

That miserable swine flu just won't quit trying to hog the limelight.


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Living in Saskatchewan one of our greatest gifts

Christmas Eve at last -- a day for scooping up last-minute gifts, getting a start on preparing the biggest dinner of the year, or perhaps hitting the road to spend the holidays with distant loved ones.


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The world is coming to Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan . . . we're going to need a bigger Christmas dinner table.


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Regina's strong growth sending taxes higher

A line in the City of Regina's 2011 budget sums up the reason for a proposed 4.13-per- cent property tax increase: "The cost of growth".


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Murray Mandryk

MANDRYK: Premier Brad Wall deserves praise for accepting marriage ruling

The toughest decisions in political life are those that go against one's philosophical grain.