Yorkton News Review - Archive

In a recent address to the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) annual convention, Premier Brad Wall said the government will be keeping its promise to provide annual revenue sharing equal to a full point of the provincial sales tax (

It is not immediately apparent what effects the CRTC's recent decision on usage-based billing (UPP) will have on Saskatchewan consumers.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan has been mostly dormant since 1997. Party leader Rick Swenson believes that it is now time for the party to get back together and provide a third voice in the upcoming election campaign.

Partners in music and in life, Evie and Jeffrey Allan Sawatzky have been entertaining crowds across the province for many years.

The Yorkton Blitz Nitro U15 girls captured the Tier 1 championship at the recent ASCICS Cup 1 tournament hosted by the McSweeney's Selects and the Sask Volleyball Association.

The Yorkton Regional High School (YRHS) and Scared Heart High School (SHHS) co-hosted the first annual York City Classic senior boys basketball tournament over the weekend.

The McSweeney's Selects and the Sask. Volleyball Association U15 volleyball team hosted the recent ASCICS Cup 1 Under 15 girls' volleyball tournament in Yorkton.

This is an election year, and the political parties in the province have been getting their candidates in order. The provincial NDP have just announced their candidate for the Yorkton constituency, Chad Blenkin.

Islamic uprising? Or the result of an oppressed population of people who are no longer willing to tolerate a dictatorship that does not encourage females to receive a proper education, that reportedly lashes homosexual people in public until their sk

To the Editor: Canada will have a great opportunity to improve its democratic process and the electoral turnout rate this year, during the federal elections.