Provincial News

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is confirming what has been widely expected – the provincial election campaign starts Tuesday. Moe says in a post on social media that he plans to ask Lt.-Gov. Russ Mirasty to dissolve the legislature, launching the campaign with voting day on Oct. 28. Moe’s Saskatchewan Party is seeking a fifth straight majority after spending […]

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar who became a superstar songwriter, singer and actor, has died. A family spokeswoman says Kristofferson died at his home in Hawaii on Saturday. He was 88.  Kristofferson brought a gritty realism to country music with compositions like “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” “Help Me Make it Through the Night” and and “Me and Bobby McGee.” […]

With the writs expected to drop this week for the Saskatchewan general election, political experts say Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party is on track for a fifth majority government but will lose seats to Carla Beck’s NDP. Tom McIntosh, a political scientist at the University of Regina, said recently Moe’s strength in the rural ridings should […]

Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck took her party’s message to the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce. It was set up as a question and answer session hosted by Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce President Prabha Ramaswamy. The questions focused mainly on the carbon tax, small business tax and affordability measures. “I will work to deliver change and […]

Rain put a damper on harvest progress in Saskatchewan this past week but some progress was still made and is welcomed by producers in drier areas. Harvest is at 79 per cent complete, up from 74 per cent the previous week and ahead of the five year average of 75 per cent and ten year […]

As more producers are finishing up harvest, an Agronomy Specialist with the Canola Council of Canada is encouraging farmers to look for signs of verticillium stripe in their fields as part of their post-harvest work. The soil-borne disease that causes yield loss in canola crops was first reported on the Prairies a decade ago, and […]

REGINA – Opposition New Democrats are levelling a new conflict of interest accusation against Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill, this time for potential insider trading. At an NDP media availability outside the Legislature, their ethics and democracy critic Meara Conway told reporters Cockrill was now under a second active investigation from the Conflict of Interest Commissioner […]

The Cattle Market Update from Canfax shows available prices for feeder heifers in Saskatchewan were mostly up while two feeder steer weight categories had enough data to record a price, but not enough to compare week-over-week changes. In the update for the week ending September 20, the price for 400-500 pound feeder steers was $446.50 […]

The provincial government’s Economic Impact Assessment Tribunal has released a report saying Saskatchewan could face serious economic harm with new proposed new regulations to cut emissions from the oil and gas sector. The proposed regulations aim to cut the emissions by 75 percent from 2012 levels by 2030. This is something the Sask Party government […]

Trade export data from Statistics Canada show Saskatchewan exports to the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands increased overall in 2023. Uranium was the main driver of those exports – 87.3 per cent of Saskatchewan uranium went to the Netherlands, 70.8 per cent to the U.K., and 47.3 per cent to France. The province says […]