Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer says Saskatchewan's poverty rate is at 10.6 per cent, or 107,000 people, down from about 14 per cent in 2006.
Edmonton gets a fifth round conditional pick in the 2017 NHL draft in return.
He says the provinces shouldn't wait for a national inquiry, but should work together to do what they can to address the issue.
A special mediator has been called in to help resolve the conflict between the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses and the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations.
The World Health Organization says women in countries hit by the Zika virus should breastfeed their babies and there is no proof the disease can spread to their infants that way.
The relatively permissive approach, urged by the majority of MPs and senators in an all-party joint committee report tabled Thursday, was immediately lauded by advocates of doctor-assisted death.