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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 […]

Province Invests in Fort McMurray Schools, Health Care and Infrastructure FORT MCMURRAY, AB. – The Alberta government will be investing nearly $5 billion to strengthen northern communities, with Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo set to receive funding for key infrastructure, education, and healthcare initiatives. Among the investments, $15 million has been allocated for eight new urgent […]

FORT MCMURRAY, AB — Measles cases continue to rise in Alberta, prompting Alberta Health Services (AHS) to issue a public alert and request that schools in our region distribute an information letter to parents and caregivers. The latest outbreak includes confirmed cases in Edmonton, Calgary, Little Red River Cree Nation, and most recently, Taber. In […]

CUPE Releases Vote Results on School Support Staff Contracts FORT MCMURRAY, AB. — With school support staff back on the job Wednesday, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has released the voting results from its recently ratified collective agreements with Fort McMurray’s Catholic and Public School Divisions. In the Fort McMurray Public School Division, […]

OECD Slashes Growth Forecasts for Canada, Mexico, and US Amid Trade Turmoil The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has significantly downgraded its economic growth forecasts for Canada, Mexico, and the United States, citing escalating trade tensions and the inflationary impact of tariffs. In its latest report, the OECD predicts Canada’s GDP will grow […]

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 […]