Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan Transportation Company Dept: Here is a list of ministers and links to their constituency profiles. MLA Portfolio Constituency Ken Krawetz Deputy Premier Minister of Finance Canora-Pelly Donna Harpauer Minister of Education Provincial Secretary Humboldt Don McMorris Minister of Health Indian Head-Milestone June Draude Minister of Social Services; Minister Responsible for the Status of Women; Minister Responsible for the Public Service Commission Kelvington-Wadena Bill Boyd Minister of Energy and Resources; Minister Responsible for SaskTel Kindersley Tim McMillan Minister Responsible for Crown Investments Corporation; Minister Responsible for Information Technology Office; Minister Responsible for Information Services Corporation; Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Government Insurance; Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority Lloydminster Jeremy Harrison Minister of Enterprise; Minister Responsible for Trade; Deputy Government House Leader Meadow Lake Bob Bjornerud Minister of Agriculture; Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation Melville-Saltcoats Darryl Hickie Minister of Municipal Affairs Prince Albert Carlton Laura Ross Minister of Government Services Regina Qu'Appelle Valley Bill Hutchinson Minister of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport; Minister Responsible for the Provincial Capital Commission Regina South Jim Reiter Minister of Highways and Infrastructure; Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Transportation Company; Minister Responsible for The Global Transportation Hub Authority Rosetown-Elrose Rob Norris Minister of Advanced Education Employment and Immigration; Minister Responsible for Innovation; Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Power Corporation; Minister Responsible for Uranium Development Partnership Saskatoon Greystone Ken Cheveldayoff Minister of First Nations and Metis Relations; Minister Responsible for Northern Affairs; Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation Saskatoon Silver Springs Don Morgan Minister of Justice and Attorney General; Minister of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety; Minister Responsible for the Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board Saskatoon Southeast Brad Wall Premier of Saskatchewan; President of the Executive Council Swift Current Dustin Duncan Minister of Environment; Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Water Corporation; Minister Responsible for SaskEnergy Incorporated Weyburn-Big Muddy D.F. Yogi Huyghebaert Minister of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing Wood River, according to CBC and all 18 cabinet ministers in the last Saskatchewan Party government have been re-elected on Monday night. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Saskatchewan: Manitobans have apparently been leaving for Saskatchewan in record numbers. In recent weeks, conservative pundits and opposition MLAs have pounded on this fact, consistently blaming high taxes for the trend. This explanation lets the NDP government off the hook. Saskatchewan's advantage is as much about better opportunities as it is about lower taxes and it's important to pound on both. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Saskatchewan is financing its growth with other people's money. Annual private investment in Saskatchewan rose to $19.8 billion in 2011 from $7.6 billion in 2003. Manitoba managed a far more modest climb over the same period, to $10 billion from $6.1 billion. Tellingly, public investment remained roughly equal in both provinces throughout that period. Cheeky Saskatchewan Roughriders fans pose a mascot at Manitobas border. Saskatchewan doesn't just tax ordinary workers less. It's also a place where employers will pay you more. In the middle of the last decade, Saskatchewan's average weekly wage began to outpace Manitoba's. As of March 2013, the average Saskatchewan weekly wage was 15 per cent higher. That boost isn't concentrated in one industry, either -- wages are higher in both the goods-producing and service sectors. Note: All data in this article is based on the latest month available from Statistics Canada, seasonally adjusted (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Saskatchewan manufacturers: Pulp and paper plants have shut down in northern Saskatchewan. Meat packing plants moved to bigger locations in other provinces. By 2010, the slowdown from a global recession cut the earnings of Saskatchewan manufacturers by $2.5 billion, according to CBC. Economist and former Saskatchewan NDP leadership candidate Erin Weir says manufacturing has consistently maintained a stable share of Saskatchewan's economic output. He says the high Canadian exchange rate left manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage. Ross Fraser is Supreme Steel's general manager and vice-president and After losing 5,000 jobs over the past six years, Saskatchewan manufacturers are hoping they can bounce back. Since then, manufacturing sales have crept back up, reaching $14 billion last year. But the jobs haven't come back. 'There are opportunities to expand manufacturing' (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Saskatchewan Dept: REGINA - Football fans in Saskatchewan have received the news they were waiting for a deal has been struck to build a new stadium, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The new 33,000-seat stadium will be built on Ervaz Place lands in Regina and is expected to be ready in early 2017 and saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, right, shakes hands with Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco after an announcing a new stadium, costing $278 million, will be built in Regina in time for the 2017 football season before CFL football action between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the BC Lions in Regina on Saturday, July 14, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall announced the news to fans at the city's current football facility, Mosaic Stadium, prior to today's CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the BC Lions. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Saskatchewan: First elected as a member of the House of Commons in 1900, Scott is instrumental in securing the creation of Saskatchewan, according to The Chronicle Herald. He is eventually forced to leave politics in 1916 because of health concerns and battles depression in his later years. --- 1917, 1921, 1925: William Martin takes over as Liberal leader in 1916 and continues the party success. Saskatchewan has an interesting political history, from Liberal domination in the early years to Tommy Douglas and the creation of a party that became the NDP. Here a look at the results of the other elections in Saskatchewan history: 1905, 1908, 1912: Liberal Thomas Walter Scott, one-time owner and editor of the Moose Jaw Times and Regina Leader, is elected as Saskatchewan first premier in 1905. He resigns his post in 1922 and becomes a Court of Appeal judge. The Liberals dominate the 1925 election under Dunning, winning 50 of 63 seats. Charles Avery Dunning, a British immigrant who eventually became the general manager of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Co., takes over as premier. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Saskatchewan Dept: Like the Alberta-B.C. delegation, the Saskatchewan group, which includes 27 employers, has a big presence at the Working Abroad job fair in Dublin this weekend, giving Canadian exhibitors close to 40 per cent of the booths. The Saskatchewan government has set up a website that greets potential Irish emigrants with the message Welcome to your future and hundreds of job postings. The province is even sending immigration officials to help applicants speed the process of moving to Saskatchewan, while Mr. Wall will greet job seekers on Saturday, according to Globe and Mail. Among the exhibitors is Kevin Dahl, co-owner of Nipawin, Sask.-based KaR Contracting, which builds giant metal storage bins attached to grain elevators across the Prairie provinces and has had trouble holding on to employees. This past year we needed 15 to 20 and couldn t get any more than 12, he said. We d hire a bunch of guys and they d just disappear. There s so much work in Saskatchewan that if you have a bad day, you can start 10 other jobs tomorrow. He s hoping to hire up to 10 metal workers this weekend. We have a construction boom; they have a bust, said Abigail Fulton, vice-president of the British Columbia Construction Association, whose 11-member delegation is meeting with Irish government, industry and union representatives in Dublin this week. The meetings, she said, are intended to lay groundwork and develop an inventory of people who are looking for work then match the names to companies looking to fill more than 100,000 construction jobs expected to open up in B.C. and Alberta in the next five years. They re pushing it really hard, said Chris Willis, a Canadian immigration consultant based in Hudson Heights, Que., who has attended the twice-annual job fair for the past six years. This time it s very much a Canadian-focused show. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Saskatchewan residents: According to the latest set of 2011 data released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday, there are 68,780 Saskatchewan residents who were born in other countries, compared to 48,160 in 2006 when the previous survey was taken, according to CBC. Thanks to the surge, 6.8 per cent of Saskatchewan's population is foreign-born, compared to 5.5 per cent in 2006 and Saskatchewan's immigrant surge is being reflected in the latest data from the federal census with a big wave of people from the Philippines accounting for much of it. In other words, more than 39 per cent of Saskatchewan's immigrants arrived between 2006 to 2011. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Saskatchewan companies: Federal documents obtained by News through an Access to Information request show there are now more than 3,000 companies in Saskatchewan that have asked for and received permission to hire foreign workers, according to CBC. However, the list of companies looking for foreign help keeps growing: hotels, construction, mining, retail and farm companies are all telling Ottawa they need outside help and The list of Saskatchewan companies applying to bring in temporary foreign workers continues to grow. For example, temporary foreign workers have been hired at 430 Saskatchewan restaurants. The program was intended to help employers fill labour shortages in the short term, when there were no qualified Canadians. 'It isn't a proactive immigration policy. It's a cheap labour policy.' SFL president Larry Hubich (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Saskatchewan Dept: And the report prepared by a University of Saskatchewan professor says the provincial government is partly to blame, according to CTV. It also says problems at the First Nations University of Canada have been a factor and a new report says Saskatchewan is falling behind Alberta and Manitoba in terms of First Nations employment. The report cites the cancellation of the Aboriginal Employment Development Program and the opening up of the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program to non-skilled workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Tibble Dept: With Leonarda Bonilla de Nunez in Winnipeg was her husband Santos, the man at the centre of the bizarre missing person case, according to CBC. At one point, while the group was near Arran, Sask., Santos, 50, complained about stomach pains. A little later, he climbed through a window and jumped out of the moving pickup and santos Nunez disappeared north of Arran, in east-central Saskatchewan near the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border. The wife of the foreign tourist who disappeared in Saskatchewan for several days before turning up in a farmer's field in Manitoba walked out of a courtroom Tuesday free to go home. On Monday, a rancher from the Swan River, Man. area, Scott Tibble, described how he and a neighbour were driving around east-central Saskatchewan on Sept. 11 with Santos, who with his wife was visiting from the Dominican Republic. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.