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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Saskatoon today. An itinerary released by his office says he will make an announcement this morning to highlight measures focused on youth, education, and health that were contained in last week’s budget. Trudeau will be joined at the event by Dan Vandal, minister for northern affairs and Prairie […]

 The opposition New Democrats have called for the resignation of Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill on Monday, on the heels of a major verbal gaffe by Cockrill during a meeting with a mother whose daughter had recently died. “Time and time again, Jeremy Cockrill shows that he lacks the empathy and honestly needed to be the Education […]

Michael Gordon Jackson, a 55-year-old man from Carievale, has been convicted of one count of abduction in contravention of a custody order. A jury in Regina Court of King’s Bench found Jackson guilty of taking his daughter in late 2021 and early 2022. It was alleged he took her to keep the girl from receiving […]

Governor General Mary Simon has touched down in Regina to begin her first official visit to Saskatchewan. This is Governor General Simon’s first official visit to Saskatchewan in her time in office, although she was in Saskatchewan before at the reconciliation event at Mosaic Stadium in the fall of 2022.  The Governor General arrived at […]

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 71% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 37, unchanged from the prior week.  CN saw a modest improvement in performance as compared to the prior week.  In supplying 72% of cars ordered by shippers in week 37 CN saw performance increase from the 68% order fulfillment performance […]

For the first time since she was appointed to the post, the Governor General Mary Simon will be paying a visit to Saskatchewan. The viceregal was sworn in July 26th 2021. Ms. Simon gained national and international recognition for her work on Arctic and Indigenous issues and for her efforts in advocating for Inuit rights, […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An apparent Israeli drone attack on a major air base near the central city of Isfahan activated Iranian air defenses early Friday. The strike came just days after Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on Israel. No Iranian official directly acknowledged the possibility that Israel had attacked, and the Israeli military did not […]

At around 7 p.m., emergency crews rushed to the scene of a house fire in the 900 Block of Garnet Street in Regina. Upon arrival, firefighters were met with heavy smoke and flames engulfing the main floor, with the fire spreading to the roof. The cause of the fire remains under investigation as authorities work […]

The hours are ticking down to midnight, the deadline to get your hands on tickets for the Hospitals of Regina Foundation Home Lottery. The lottery is 95 percent sold. This year’s grand prize show home is a 4,000 square foot home in “The Creeks” in Regina, work 1.4 million dollars. The winner of the home, […]

There still seems to be considerable uncertainty about whether a tentative collective agreement between the province and Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation will be finally ratified by a vote of its members. In fact STF leadership was not even willing to use the language “tentative agreement” to describe what had happened, despite the government using that language […]