Yorkton News Review - Archive

To the Editor: Ever wonder how Canada's net federal debt reached $671 billion by 2013? Or how net provincial debt among the provinces ended up at $509 billion that same year? Wonder no more.

Here in Canada, we are fortunate that our families have access to the resources needed to live happy, healthy and productive lives. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many around the world.

Buy a coffee - send a local child to summer camp! Wednesday June 4, 2014 is Tim Horton's Camp Day! This is the one day each year when Tim Hortons restaurant owners donate 100 per cent of the proceeds from coffee sales to the Tim Horton Children's Fou

The provincial Discounted Bus Program will continue into the future. At a recent announcement in Yorkton, the provincial government put $1.6 million towards the program, an increase of $60,000 over the past year.

To the Editor: Throughout Saskatchewan, families are being let down when it comes to health care and seniors care and it's due to reckless spending on bloated administration and out-of-country consultants while the needs for front-line staff and basi

Social Services Minister June Draude has proclaimed May 2014 as Speech and Hearing Awareness Month in Saskatchewan.

To the Editor: It's the middle of May. We're well into the 2014 construction season. The new "Building Canada" infrastructure fund (BCF) was supposed to be up-and-running seven weeks ago (April 1st). But not a wheel has turned.

There was a study recently that suggested that a gluten sensitivity outside of Celiac disease does not exist.

SGI has announced it is investing in technology to help improve road safety in Saskatchewan by funding automatic licence plate readers for the RCMP and municipal police agencies.

In December of 2013, Canada Post announced a five point plan to return to profitability. That plan included eliminating door-to-door delivery and replacing it with community postal boxes, as well as increasing stamp prices.