Yorkton News Review - Archive

The sounds of the far north will come south to Yorkton with Diyet, performing in the city October 22 as part of the Stars for Saskatchewan series.

A young man’s love of reading has become a long-running campaign to encourage literacy in Yorkton area youth. The Brayden Ottenbreit Memorial Book Fund is now looking for entries to determine where the books go for the next donation.

No matter who wins the election on October 19, there will be a new MP for Yorkton-Melville.

Influenza immunization clinics begin on October 19, 2015. Over the coming week, a listing of all Sunrise Health Region influenza immunization clinics will be delivered to every home mailbox in the region.

It seems like a long time ago that the federal election started, but here we are at the end. By the time the next edition of News Review is published we will have a new government in Ottawa.

It’s rare that you can get an entire room to agree with you at an all candidates forum, but Brooke Malinoski did it at the one in Yorkton. She was the lone candidate to get spontaneous applause at the event.

To the Editor: When governments chose between secrecy and openness, the default should always be for people to have as much information as possible. It’s access to basic information that’s at the core of The First Nations Financial Transparency Act.

To the Editor: Recent election-style ads placed by the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (Alliance) in Western Canadian rural papers use misinformation and factual errors to make political points.