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Former Regina cartoonist Brian Gable has been recognized by Canada Post with a new stamp design featuring his work.

Those closest to the Moe say his popularity remains high because he seems less like a politician and more a guy youd want as a neighbour.

Kevin Falcon has announced he’s running to be leader of the B.C. Liberal Party, and says he’d begin with a name change. Not his own name mind you, though given the amount of baggage he’s carting . . .

Article content One successful fundraiser for the mid-1980s Saskatchewan NDP Opposition was a lottery in which participants guessed the size of the annual Grant Devine government budget deficit. It wasn’t as much about the campaign money raised as it was about New Democrats restoring pride in their party’s own record in government while rallying public support around the then-Progressive Conservative government’s burgeoning deficit problem. We apologize, but this video has failed to load....

Article content When we think about turning points in Saskatchewan political history, we tend to think about the big days  — election days, budgets, bills or days with huge policy pronouncements. We think about Oct. 13, 1961 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government introduced the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Bill ushering in nation-defining medicare. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Mandryk: Saskatchewan may have reached...

kfundingsland@minotdailynews.com Kim Fundingsland/MDN Water was flowing over the small dam near Minot’s Water Treatment Plant Thursday afternoon, but expectations are that flows will subside very soon. The flow was initiated by a release from Lake Darling Dam which concluded Wednesday. That North Dakota is experiencing some very dry conditions, nearing historic levels, is something that has been developing in earnest since October of 2020. Evidence of just how dry much of Ward County and surr...

kfundingsland@minotdailynews.com Kim Fundingsland/MDN Water flows over a small dam at Baker’s Bridge at the south end of the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge. The flow is the first in many months in the Souris River above Minot. FOXHOLM – Something that hasn’t happened for many months is underway in the city. Water is flowing in the Souris River. No. It isn’t because of recent precipitation but rather because of senior water rights downstream of Minot for the Eaton Irrigation Pr...

Try refreshing your browser, or Your letters for April 8, 2021: Dont suggest the NDP spends wildly Back to video Does Mandryk not recall that it was the NDP that brought Saskatchewan back from the brink of provincial bankruptcy after Grant Devine’s financial profligacy? Does Mandryk forget that the NDP left the books well in the black when the Sask. Party came into power and they again spent us into the hole, even when revenues were high? For me, having lived in this province my entire life...

Those of you who follow Saskatchewan politics will recognize how this has done in the NDP. For decades, the NDP (and its forerunner, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) was the natural governing party in this province for three basic reasons. First, coming out of the Great Depression and the Second World War, a destitute rural-based Saskatchewan was more inclined to accept its social-democratic philosophy bolstered by the co-operative movement. Second, NDP governments did find ways to...

Article content Why is Saskatchewan always late to the dance? Many of you may assume this is simply a lament to a bad week for the Saskatchewan Party government that offered a woeful deficit budget that sneered at progressive environmental initiatives and couldn’t muster the will to even slightly change our age-based vaccine rollout to get ahead of new COVID-19 variants spreading like a prairie fire. It is all of that. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your brows...