With more reports of an increase in suicide attempts in Black Lake, NDP Deputy Leader and Athabasca MLA Buckley Belanger is calling on the Sask. Party government to finally stop their irresponsible and callous cuts and immediately invest in mental health care.
Statement by Trent Wotherspoon in Recognition of Black History Month
Today, NDP Leader Trent Wotherspoon issued the following statement:
Sask. Party MLA’s support of local school board voices must extend across Saskatchewan: NDP
NDP Education Critic Carla Beck applauded Battlefords MLA Herb Cox for supporting his local school board’s fight against any cuts by the Sask. Party and called on Cox to extend that same support to all rural boards concerned about losing their local voice.
Statement by Trent Wotherspoon in response to the shooting in Québec City
Today, the Saskatchewan NDP Leader Trent Wotherspoon released the following statement:
Reality Check: ‘Alternative facts’ trump reality for Moose Jaw North MLA
Hearing that the Sask. Party is bending the truth is nothing new but, this week, Moose Jaw North MLA Warren Michelson took things to a new level and presented what the President of the United States might call, ‘alternative facts.’
Sask. Party puts chill on public feedback on education review
School division leaders are concerned that Sask. Party actions caused the school board amalgamation feedback process to not be representative of everyone’s views.
Oil Spill and Keystone approval highlight Sask. Party pipeline failures
The Saskatchewan NDP welcomes the Presidential approval of the Keystone Pipeline.
Sask. Party cuts making overcapacity worse at Saskatoon hospitals
With no support from the Sask. Party, overcapacity continues to be an issue for patients and frontline health care workers in the Saskatoon area.
Saskatchewan’s most vulnerable falling victim to Sask. Party cuts
Despite assurances by the Sask. Party that their cuts to the Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) would not hurt those who were already in the program, the severe consequence are now showing themselves to be painfully true.