A three member committee is reviewing and set to make recommendations as to the rate of pay and benefits elected officials receive but in the end do they have to accept what is just that recommendations?
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A bit of a longer opinion/commentary read as the second Freedom of Information (FOI) request we release this weekend deals with the recent decision to actively enforce the rules surrounding encroachment on City-owned land.
It is a policy change that was being developed for over a year with much of the discussion involving Council in-camera and behind closed doors.
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This week’s column deals with impaired driving and perhaps how the media and others need to take a different approach to the obligatory New Years warning about not driving impaired.
There is one graphic image included so there is a warning it is not for the squeamish.
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In a letter the Moose Jaw and District Chamber of Commerce congratulates Council for ratifing the Canadian Tire deal.
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The 2020 City of Moose Jaw Budget hits the economic realities and recession many in the city are facing.
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A retrospective of some of the political things centered on the corner of Fairford and Main.
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It seemed like a personality clash, a school yard dustup or even another edition of Stu Hart's notorious Saturday morning Stampede Wrestling but anything like a City Council meeting setting its public meeting dates.
In the end it had the Mayor making an apparent Freudian slip that Council meets more than they publicly release and by so doing work harder than many city councils in the province do albeit behind closed doors.
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A look back at the election nationally and locally including a chat with the recently re-elected MP Tom Lukiwski.
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This is the rejected column to the now defunct Moose Jaw Times-Herald and how columnist Robert Thomas stumbled over top of inconvenient truths involving a pea protein plant proposed for Moose Jaw.
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A satirical look at the future as technology terms our neighbourhoods into automated battlegrounds with the arrival of the SmartCan to take out the trash.
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In a letter we receive the full explaination about what is happening in the Regina -Qu'AppElle riding and his the ballot could suddenly become potentially larger.
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A look at the on-line public City budget consultations and how many feel left out.
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A look at the bigger picture when it comes to SaskPower's suspension of the Net Metering program and potential impact on Moose Jaw.
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A letter to editor where a Moose Jaw resident decries the removal of shrubs at Crescent Park and asks for changes from Administration.
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A look at the recently released crime statistics and other things the MJPS are facing while fighting a growing Meth epidemic.
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With a week to call an election a look at some of the things going on national, locally and in our news room
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It has taken years to finalize and set to take effect in a few days but the new Taxi, Shuttle and Limousine Bylaw appears ready to hit the industry like a tsunami and may leave devastation in its wake.
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A look at the rise of Black Sea Grains and how changes in Ukraine put it on the cusp of an agricultural boom in investment and production
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