Danielle Chartier

• Saskatchewan NDP ask government to set minimum care standard for long-term care homes

  Staffing levels are a concern for the NDP who feel an outbreak of coronavirus in a long-term care home could affect the quality of health-care provided.

  Health

  May 28, 2020
  
• Sask. NDP says opioid therapy physician shortage creating a crisis

  Two Regina physicians who could prescribe opioid assistance therapy had their licenses revoked by the professional regulator, affecting 700 patients.

  Health

  May 2, 2019
  
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• Sask. inks $5M partnership to fund crystal meth and opioid treatment

  The governments of Saskatchewan and Canada signed a $5 million agreement to better fund addictions treatment for opioids and crystal meth.

  Health

  Nov 13, 2018
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• Health Minister expects recommendations this summer for future of Pioneer Village

  As affected residents continue to move, Health Minister Jim Retier says that recommendations are coming for the future direction of Pioneer Village.

  Health

  May 23, 2018
• Sask. Status of Women office looks to economic programming as a way to address gender-based violence

  Saskatchewan's Status of Women office is taking a different approach to addressing women's issues; a new pilot to apply a gender-based analysis to a start-up incentive.

  Politics

  May 18, 2018
• Opposition and non-profit calls on Sask. to match new federal mental health dollars

  Saskatchewan added $11.4 million to its mental health budget, but much of that new money comes from the federal government.

  Health

  Apr 12, 2018
• Individualized funding for children with autism expected to cost $2.8 million

  Individualized funding for autistic children under six-years-old is coming to Saskatchewan, but for some families say that more still needs to be done to help support their kids.

  Health

  Mar 28, 2018
• Regina MLA Mark Docherty elected House Speaker

  Saskatchewan's MLA’s have elected Mark Docherty as the new House Speaker in a five-ballot vote.

  Canada

  Mar 12, 2018
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• Saskatchewan government prepared to pay up to $19M in health authority severance

  Eleven former CEOs and vice-presidents from the former regional health authorities in Saskatchewan have received combined $4.1 million in severance.

  Politics

  Dec 5, 2017
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• NDP health critic questions why attorney general is answering abortion related questions

  Health critic Danielle Chartier is wondering why questions concerning rural access to reproductive health were answered by the attorney general and not Rural and Remote Health Minister Greg Ottenbreit.

  Politics

  Nov 27, 2017