Provincial News

SASKATOON — University of Saskatchewan Associate Professor Dr. Bishnu Acharya won the prestigious Mitacs Innovation Award for his groundbreaking work turning agricultural waste into canola meal, oat hulls, and flax into high-value products. The award was presented at a ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The research of Acharya, […]

Delegates voted on 21 resolutions during the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) Mid-Term Convention in Saskatoon on Wednesday. They were a mix of how SARM conducts business at its conventions to lobbying the provincial and federal governments on a variety of issues. For example, the R.M. of Elfros No. 307 introduced three resolutions related […]

The voting period remains open to fill spots on the SaskOilseeds Board of Directors. Five people are vying for four spots on the Board — David Altrogge from Saint Benedict, Patricia Lung from Lake Lenore, Thomas MacKenzie from Zehner, Codie Nagy from Ogema, and Dean Roberts from Coleville. These candidates have different farming backgrounds from […]

Saskatchewan’s Opposition NDP says Premier Scott Moe’s government needs to address high food prices and pause the gas tax in light of recent scurvy cases in the province’s North.  News website larongeNow reported last week that doctors in the community had treated 27 cases of scurvy, caused by vitamin C deficiency, over the last six […]

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in October rose eight per cent compared with September. The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 240,761 units in October, up from 223,391 in September. The increase came as the annual pace of urban housing starts […]

Two men are to stand trial on human smuggling charges this week, almost three years after a family from India was found frozen to death on the border between Manitoba and Minnesota. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand are accused of being part of a large operation that brought Indian nationals to Canada on student […]

CARLYLE — Construction of the new Bekevar Wind Energy Facility north of Moose Mountain Provincial Park is complete, says SaskPower in a news release Friday morning. Owned and operated by Bekevar Wind LP, a limited partnership between Innagreen Investments and Awasis Nehiyawewini Energy Development Limited Partnership, a wholly-owned Cowesses First Nation entity, the wind facility […]

With the cold months drawing ever closer, its always nice to start planning for next summer. Country Thunder has taken the wraps off its line-up for the 2025 edition of the show, and like last year, a major rock band will be one of the headliners. Def Leppard, Jason Aldean and Bailey Zimmerman have were […]

REGINA – Opposition Leader Carla Beck has announced the NDP shadow cabinet and all their MLAs will have a critic role. The entire expanded caucus of 27 NDP MLAs will be in the shadow cabinet, facing the 16 Sask Party cabinet ministers. In addition to being the Opposition Leader, Beck will take on Agriculture and […]

Saskatchewan cattle producers continue to enjoy solid prices. Canfax’s Cattle Market Update for the week ending November 8th shows most feeder steer and feeder heifer prices were on the rise again. Only the 700-800 pound steers (down $2.19) and the 400-500 pound heifers (down $0.25) reported week-over-week decreases. The largest increase, meanwhile, for the feeder […]