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Its been the worst kept secret in Ottawa for more than a week, after Mark Carney was elected Liberal Leader, and sworn in as prime minister. Mark Carney made the journey to Rideau Hall in Ottawa where he met with Governor General Mary Simon. Simon agreed to Carney’s request to dissolve parliament and being the […]

The Canadian government has announced support for the country’s agriculture sector as it deals with tariffs imposed by China. The federal agriculture department says in a news release that the current payment cap under AgriStability, a program that works similarly to crop insurance, will double to $6 million for the 2025 program year. Support also […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call a federal election on Sunday for a vote as early as April 28. Sources would not confirm the specific date of the vote, but federal campaigns must run at least 37 days. This will be Canada’s 45th federal election. Canada’s political parties have been mobilizing campaigns by […]

REGINA – The 2025 Saskatchewan provincial budget is balanced. That is the big story to emerge from the release of the 2025 Saskatchewan provincial budget, which was officially tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday afternoon. In his budget address Finance Minister Jim Reiter confirmed the province will have a projected $12 million surplus.  Total […]

Statistics Canada says the population grew to 41,528,680 people as of Jan. 1 as the pace of growth continued to slow after peaking in the third quarter of 2023. The total number of people was up 63,382 compared with Oct. 1, 2024, for a quarterly growth rate of 0.2 per cent. The agency says it […]

REGINA – The budget documents are ready and printed and the new shoes are ready to be worn for Finance Minister Jim Reiter’s first Saskatchewan provincial budget on Wednesday. As is tradition, the printed budget books were delivered to Reiter in the finance minister’s office on Tuesday afternoon, one day before Reiter is set to rise […]

REGINA – Premier Scott Moe opened Canada’s Farm Show in Regina on Tuesday, but it was clear that looming tariffs were very much on his mind. In remarks to those attending the “Thank You Farmers Breakfast” event Tuesday, and in speaking to reporters afterwards, Moe was clearly concerned about the impact of tariffs from the […]

The annual rate of inflation accelerated sharply to 2.6 per cent in February as the federal government’s temporary tax break came to an end mid-month, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. That marks a sizeable jump from the 1.9 per cent increase seen in January, when Canadians saw GST and HST taken off a variety of household […]

SASKATCHEWAN – The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit is investigating the highest number of reports of child sexual abuse material it has ever received. These files include investigating crimes involving the abuse and/or exploitation of infants, children and teens on the Internet. During the 2021-2022 year*, the unit had 853 new files come in. […]

Melville City Council has ratified a new Collective Agreement between the City and City employees – CUPE Local 456. A tentative agreement between the two parties through a mediator earlier this month, and the deal was needing ratification from council after the union ratified the deal that same week. The deal is for three years […]