The Saskatchewan NDP recaptured two seats in the provincial legislature by winning two byelections Monday, including one that will send Opposition leader Dwain Lingenfelter back to the legislature for the first time in eight years.
via NDP sweeps Sask. byelections.

Do you ever feel like you’re a rock ‘n’ roll fan stuck in the Eighties? Or a science teacher at a Republican education convention down in the southern U.S.? Or an environmentalist in oil sands-ravaged Alberta?
Well, if so, then you’re quite possibly a left-wing Canadian voter. Because feeling discouraged, depressed, dejected, and downhearted is all [...]

“This is not a slough in Saskatchewan,” said the former mayor of Elstow, Sask., who lives in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Canmore, Alta. “This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I’m trying to save something that can’t speak for itself. I want to hold people accountable.”
via The mystery of Lake Louise’s missing water [...]

It was 1913 when North Battleford and Weyburn became the province’s newest cities.
Nearly 100 years later, Saskatchewan is doing it again, announcing last week that the towns of Meadow Lake and Martensville have reached city status.
via The Canadian Press: Historian says creating new Saskatchewan cities has ‘great significance’.