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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Recent news media reports about Northern Village of Pinehouse

Dec 19, 2019 Pinehouse updates

December 2019 Fees May Apply: (Editorial) Some local governments struggle with transparency By Heather Persson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, 19 Dec 2019 A report into the dealings of the Northern Village of Pinehouse is due out any time. An independent inspector was called in by the provincial government after the provincial information and privacy commissioner wrote a […]

The House that Rosalena Built: How a social housing program went awry in Pinehouse

Sep 15, 2019 Pinehouse updates

September 11, 2014, was a red-letter day in the Northern Village of Pinehouse (Saskatchewan), a community about 500 km north of Saskatoon. Provincial Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer flew in from Regina (via La Ronge) for the official opening of 10 new houses, sponsored under the Saskatchewan government’s Summit Action Fund (SAF) social housing […]

Pinehouse struggles to explain Councillor Greg Ross’s financial perks: A climate of evasion and preferential treatment in village administration

May 05, 2019 Pinehouse updates

Questions readily arise about how this complete lack of due process could have transpired. How could the Mayor and Administrator have allowed this failure to comply with provincial legislation? How could the conflict of interest not be recognized? How could the provincial government not intervene?

Pinehouse village office goes silent over payments for Harpauer’s holiday weekends

May 03, 2019 Pinehouse updates

In a review report issued just this morning, Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has found that the Northern Village of Pinehouse has refused an Access to Information request related to Finance Minister Donna Harpauer’s (Social Services Minister in 2016) and her partner’s all-expenses-paid weekends in the Pinehouse in August 2016 and 2018. And in his […]

Info Commissioner once again finds Village of Pinehouse non-compliant

Apr 26, 2019 Pinehouse updates

This time the issue is a request for information about how the Village Council did not provide formal authorization for its business development corporation Pinehouse Business North (PBN) to dispense with audited financial statements for three fiscal years, 2009-2011, as required by the Northern Municipalities Act.

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