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Pinehouse, Saskatchewan is a small Métis community, located about 5 hours north-west of Saskatoon. Uranium development in northern Saskatchewan has led to a secretive collaboration agreement between the uranium industry (as represented by Cameco and Areva) and the Pinehouse leadership (as represented by the Village council and Kineepik Metis Local Inc.) The corporate special interest consortium, Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), has also put pressure on Pinehouse to host nuclear radioactive waste disposal sites, for depleted uranium from nuclear reactors in eastern Canada.

Pinehouse.info has been created because of the extreme difficulties that the citizens of the Northern Village of Pinehouse have had in recent years getting access to basic information about the administration of their municipality.

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“We apologize for the inconvenience”: Northern Village of Pinehouse and transparency, accountability . . . .

Sep 27, 2020 Pinehouse updates

The Pinehouse Village council and administration knew they could not possibly get their 2019 financial statement completed by the legislative deadline, but nevertheless moved the municipal election ahead by more than one month before the standard date followed elsewhere in the province (Nov. 9). It’s almost like Mayor Mike and his council were determined that the 2019 financial picture remain hidden to village electors before they were required to place their votes on October 7.

No boundaries, no accountability: Northern Village of Pinehouse & Kineepik Metis Local Inc.

Sep 20, 2020 Pinehouse updates

Earlier this year a rock-solid forensic audit report for Pinehouse village finances in 2018 was submitted by Grant Thornton LLP to Saskatchewan’s Minister of Government Relations. It is full of very troubling discoveries about how the village has been (mis)managed, and it leaves us wondering how the Mayor, Council and Adminstrator could get away with […]

Pinehouse Business North loses $4.9 million in 2018: What’s next?!

Sep 07, 2020 Pinehouse updates

Reading the financial statements for Pinehouse Business North Limited Partnership (PBNLP), the operational municipal development corporation that Pinehouse locals know as “PBN” lost $4.9 million dollars in 2018, even though its actual revenue had increased by over $2 million that same year. It is a very worrisome trend when one realizes that, if this […]

Three Big Questions Citizens of Pinehouse should be asking in the Village Election 2020

Aug 29, 2020 Pinehouse updates

The Grant Thornton firm focused its forensic almost entirely on the financial status of the village in 2018. Based on indications of significant irregularities in 2018, they recommended that the audit be expanded to include earlier years. The provincial government has decided that is not necessary. That does not mean the issues have gone away; it does mean that they have not been addressed. In effect, the Vancise Inquiry has left it to the citizens of Pinehouse to change administrative practices in their Village office, if not change the administration itself, through the municipal election this fall.

Media release: Lack of due process in Pinehouse village admin leads to precarious financials

Apr 21, 2020 Pinehouse updates

Saskatoon, 20 April 2019 – Earlier today the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) for Saskatchewan released its most recent Review Report regarding the Northern Village of Pinehouse (population 1074 in 2016), the 17th such report since 2013. Concerns about access to information (ATI) prompted an official investigation by Neil Robertson [Appendix B […]

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