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It was a tight election race but Scott Moe secured the Saskatchewan Party’s fifth-straight majority, defeating challenger Carla Beck’s NDP that was looking to take back government for the first time since 2007. While the official count is still ongoing, Global News is projecting the Saskatchewan Party will form a majority government in the 61-seat legislature.This was the Sask. Party’s second election under Moe.Moe retained his seat in Rosthern-Shellbrook shortly after polls closed with 63 per cent of the vote, although he received less of the popular vote than in 2020, when he won 79.5 per cent of the votes in the riding.Many of Moe’s rural Sask. Party candidates jumped out to early leads in Monday’s provincial general election.The early results unfolded as expected, with the Sask. Party ...

Canada’s Indigenous Services minister refused to say Monday if non-Indigenous companies that won contracts by claiming to be Indigenous should pay back the value of contracts that were meant for First Nations, Inuit or Métis businesses. Under questioning by Conservative MPs during a parliamentary committee meeting, Patty Hajdu repeatedly stressed the value of the Indigenous Business Directory – a database of companies connecting Indigenous businesses to the lucrative world of federal contracts.A months-long Global News investigation, in partnership with researchers at First Nations University of Canada, raised questions about whether some of those companies are truly owned and controlled by Indigenous people.The investigation revealed significant loopholes in the Procurement Strategy for I...