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Budget 2025: a $12 million surplus
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 ...
Mar 19, 2025
Prime Minister Carney eliminates carbon pricing
The Liberal government is immediately ending the consumer carbon price and made the change official during Prime Minister Mark Carney's first cabinet meeting this afternoon. Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April. He signed an order...
Mar 14, 2025
Arbitration Board Mandates Class Complexity Clause in Teachers' Agreement
Saskatchewan teachers and their year-long battle for a contract with the province is over, and the Arbitration Board deciding that contract ruled that class complexity must be part of their collective agreement. This decision follows a decade of advocacy to improve learning conditions for students and support teachers ...
Mar 04, 2025
Arbitration Board Mandates Class Complexity Clause in Teachers' Agreement
Saskatchewan teachers and their year-long battle for a contract with the province is over, and the Arbitration Board deciding that contract ruled that class complexity must be part of their collective agreement. This decision follows a decade of advocacy to improve learning conditions for students and support teachers ...
Mar 04, 2025
Zelenskyy leaves White House without signing minerals deal after Oval Office blow up
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being "disrespectful" Friday in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, then abruptly called off the signing of a minerals deal with the U.S. that Trump said would have moved Ukraine closer to ending its war with Russia...
Feb 28, 2025
Agriculture

Opening Grain Prices Wednesday, March 26
Durum: 336.80 Feed Barley: 232.54 Canola: 550.15 (up 7.70) Chickpeas: 837.75 Flax: 731.04 Lentils: 715.50 Oats: 233.00 Yellow Peas: 352.29 Feed Wheat: 203.15 1 Red Spring Wheat: 277.73 (do...
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Spring edition of Canada's Farm Show may be here to stay
It seems that Canada's Farm Show has found its spot on the calendar. Last week's event was the first time in its 48-year history that it was held in March, as it was held in June previously. Show Director Carla Vipond told reporters on the third and final day of the Farm Show that she heard a lot of positive feedback f...
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Closing Grain Prices Wednesday, March 26
Durum: 336.80 Feed Barley: 232.54 Canola: 553.15 (up 3.00) Chickpeas: 837.75 Flax: 731.04 Lentils: 715.50 Oats: 233.00 Yellow Peas: 352.29 Feed Wheat: 203.15 1 Red Spring Wheat: 277.77 (up ...
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Closing Grain Prices Tuesday, March 25
Durum: 336.80 Feed Barley: 232.54 Canola: 542.45 (down 3.30) Chickpeas: 837.75 Flax: 731.04 Lentils: 715.50 Oats: 233.00 Yellow Peas: 352.29 Feed Wheat: 203.15 1 Red Spring Wheat: 280.03 (u...
Mar 25, 2025

Feeder cattle prices bounce back after brief decline
Saskatchewan feeder cattle prices rebounded last week after two prior weeks of declines, according to Canfax's weekly Cattle Market Update covering the week ending March 21. All the reported feeder steer and heifer categories had prices increases compared to the prior week, as shown in the table below. Prices for the s...
Mar 25, 2025
Sports

'It was distasteful': Riders legend Darian Durant believes Ed Hervey's CFL superstar statement can affect Edmonton Elks
By: Allan Ly Saskatchewan Roughriders legend Darian Durant understands where Ed Hervey's coming from but felt him stating the CFL does not have any superstar players was disrespectful. "You don't want to step on the league that gives you your livelihood. I don't like it -- it was distasteful. There really isn't a...
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'Factually incorrect': TSN, SportsCage analyst Glen Suitor pushes back against Ed Hervey's CFL superstar commentary
Story By: Allan Ly TSN and SportsCage analyst Glen Suitor pushed back against Edmonton Elks' general manager Ed Hervey's statement regarding the CFL not having superstars and his subsequent clarification. "First of all, it wasn't smart to say. Secondly, it was factually incorrect. The wrong thing to do and say be...
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Regina native Ethan Ball realizes 'dream of a lifetime' at 2025 CFL Combine
Nine athletes from Saskatchewan participated in the 2025 Canadian Football League Combine. For Regina's Ethan Ball, the opportunity to audition in front of CFL teams to earn the chance to be drafted is full circle for him. "For me, starting my football career in Regina, leaving, going away to the United States, th...
Mar 24, 2025
Darian Durant had no patience for CFL receivers making errors while with Riders: 'I was never a guy to hold my tongue'
Darian Durant is a legendary quarterback who spent 12 years in the CFL while playing for two teams, mostly the Saskatchewan Roughriders. When it came to coaching his teammates, he took two different approaches. "If you're a guy that doesn't make many mistakes at all, then I won't say a word because we all have bra...
Mar 23, 2025
Canada's Rachel Homan beats Switzerland's Tirinzoni to win women's curling worlds
Rachel Homan's Canadian curling team has won the women's world championship with a 7-3 victory over Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni. Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes from the Ottawa Curling Club became the first Canadian team to repeat as women's world champions since Sandra Schmirler's team did it in ...
Mar 23, 2025