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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 […]

Picket lines have gone up at six grain terminals in Metro Vancouver as about 600 workers begin a strike. Canada’s labour minister, meanwhile, says he spoke with both the employer and representatives of Grain Workers Union Local 333 on Monday, and they have agreed to resume contract negotiations alongside federal mediators. Steven MacKinnon posted the […]

Israel and Hezbollah are trading strikes again as the death toll from a massive Israeli bombardment has climbed to nearly 560 people. There was also a new Israeli airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb on Tuesday, the second day of escalated exchanges across the Israeli-Lebanon border. Thousands of people fled on Monday from southern Lebanon […]

Canada’s grain farmers say a strike at Metro Vancouver terminals would cripple crop exports if it were allowed to take place. The Grain Growers of Canada say in a statement that it is “deeply concerned” about a potential strike of grain workers in Metro Vancouver, since about 52 per cent of all Canadian-grown grain went […]

From cellphone “hotels” to patchwork policies to recalibrating lesson plans, teachers and schools across Canada are learning to navigate a classroom without cellphones. But some say that despite recent bans and restrictions on the phones, little has changed. A number of provinces, including Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, introduced plans to limit cellphone usage beginning this […]

Justin Trudeau will turn his focus to the ongoing crises in Haiti as he speaks with some world leaders Monday ahead of the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The prime minister will meet with the Caribbean country’s acting Prime Minister Garry Conille before delivering remarks at a high-level meeting for a UN […]

Saskatchewan’s Appeal Court is set to hear arguments over the next two days about a provincial law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school. A judge ruled earlier this year a challenge of the law could continue, even though the government invoked the notwithstanding clause […]

MOOSE JAW – Most parents with children in Holy Trinity Catholic School Division appear to be OK with a new policy prohibiting the use of communications devices in the classroom, division administration says. The division office created Administrative Procedure (AP) 352, Student Use of Personal Electronic Devices, this August in response to the provincial government’s […]

The mayor of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., has apologized after she was criticized for musing about the “old days” of managing feral cats by throwing them in the river or gassing them with a vehicle’s exhaust pipe. Gale Katchur said in a Thursday statement her comments fell short of her city’s values of compassion, respect and […]

Palestinian authorities say 15 people were killed overnight in the Gaza Strip in multiple Israeli attacks. An airstrike early Friday morning in Gaza City hit a family home, killing six people including an unknown number of children, Gaza’s Civil Defense said. Another person was killed in Gaza City when a strike hit a group of […]