Category Archives: News
Trump tariff response, procurement still hot issues at the Leg
REGINA - With a round of potential 20 per cent US tariffs set to hit April 2, the issue of Trump tariffs and retaliatory measures were front and centre at the Legislature Tuesday. Opposition New Democ...
Apr 02, 2025 With Trump set to impose tariffs April 2, Opposition Leader Carla Beck speaks to reporters about the Saskatchewan government’s response. John Cairns
State of economywide tariffs on Canada unclear as Trump's global trade war escalates
As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to unveil his so-called "liberation day" plan to hit multiple countries with tariffs, it's still not clear whether a temporary pause on separate economywide dut...
Apr 02, 2025 President Donald Trump waves to the media as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on March 30, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jose Luis Magana
Dueling emergency motions at the Leg
REGINA - It was two different fates for two emergency motions presented in the Legislative Assembly on Monday. An NDP bid for an emergency motion to overturn the recently passed provincial budget pred...
Apr 01, 2025 Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon seen putting the 2025-26 budget in the shredder.John Cairns
Regina business owner hopes upcoming Dewdney construction goes more smoothly
REGINA - With the 2nd phase of the Dewdney revitalization project set to begin soon, business owners want to make sure customers are aware that they're open. Mark Heise, CEO of Rebellion Brewing Co, s...
Apr 01, 2025 Rebellion Brewing Co. is located near the intersection of Broad St. and Dewdney Ave. Photo by Martin Oldhues
MJPS searching for suspect after armed robbery on Main Street
MOOSE JAW - On March 31 at approximately 7:30 a.m., the Moose Jaw Police Service responded to an armed robbery at a business on the 1200 block of Main Street North. The suspect fled the scene upon pol...
Apr 01, 2025
HMCS Kamsack served during pivotal Battle of the Atlantic
KAMSACK - In 1939, Europe was at war and by 1940, continental Europe, from France to Norway, had been occupied by German forces. Britain stood alone and the sea lanes across the Atlantic were its only...
Apr 01, 2025 Named after the prairie town of Kamsack, HMCS Kamsack made three round trips protecting merchant ships crossing the Atlantic during the Second World War. Photo courtesy Canada's Naval Memorial
CUPE sounds alarm over health care working conditions
REGINA - Health care workers were sounding the alarm at the legislature Monday over the state of working conditions in the system. Opposition New Democrats stood alongside a delegation of medical tech...
Apr 01, 2025 Dexter Mercer speaks about the 50 hours of shifts he spent working on the job at Battlefords Union Hospital, as health critic Vicki Mowat, CUPE’s Bashir Jalloh and a delegation of medical technologists and technicians listen in. John Cairns
The hot new trend: making travel plans to avoid the USA
REGINA - Back in January, I hopped on a plane for my usual winter getaway break to Las Vegas, in an effort to escape the ice and snow. I came back right before President Donald Trump slammed Canada wi...
Apr 01, 2025 John Cairns writes about the US boycott by tourists — even though he isn’t that big into tourist boycotts.
'Sobering statistic:' One-fifth of pollinators in North America at extinction risk
FREDERICTON - Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North ...
Mar 31, 2025 Ale-ks / Depositphotos.com
Trump tariff tumult has ripples for sporting goods, puts costly hockey gear in price-hike crosshair
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Calls from the U.S. to Roustan Hockey headquarters in Canada in recent weeks have been anything but routine, as bulk orders of name-brand sticks have suddenly become complicated con...
Mar 31, 2025 FILE - Hockey players go for the puck during the final of the women's open division at the pond hockey classic in Meredith, N.H., on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Nick Perry, File)