The government of Saskatchewan wants a risk analysis done on its telephone company, in the wake of news earlier this month that Bell will buy Manitoba Telecom Services Inc.

Premier Brad Wall says that deal leaves SaskTel as "the only, sort of quite small, regional player — the only one on this island."

Wall says the government-owned company already has to share its telephone infrastructure with its private competitors, which had made the competition increasingly tough.

"Does the takeover mean anything, in terms of SaskTel's ongoing competitiveness?"

Wall says the answer to that question, in the form of an independent risk analysis, will be made public.

No sale without provincial vote

As for what will happen after that, Wall says he will not break his promise to sell a government-owned utility without campaigning onA former Saint Mary's University groundskeeper accused of sexually assaulting four women has been found not guilty in one of those cases.

On Friday, a provincial court judge acquitted Matthew Percy, 35, of sexual assault, choking to overcome resistance and voyeurism — for recording video of the encounter with his iPhone. The charges stemmed from a Sept. 3, 2017 incident involving a young woman who was a student at the university.

Percy was dressed in grey as he entered the courtroom to hear Judge Bill Digby's verdict.

Digby told the court that the Crown failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the woman did not consent.

Before he read the verdict, the judge said,"I acknowledge that [the complainant] is of the belief that she was sexually assaulted."

But Digby also said that