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MOOSE JAW — City hall plans to apply for more than $6 million in federal funding to support upgrades to the library, the art gallery and museum, Golden Ticket Sports Centre and Kinsmen Sportsplex. The department of community services is seeking $6.2 million from Ottawa’s Green and Inclusive Community Buildings (GICB) Program to pursue several […]

REGINA – The City of Regina is conducting a survey starting in October to gather information on how its residents travel daily.    Data results will help with future infrastructure decisions, like transit upgrades and road improvements.  R.A Malatest & Associates Ltd, a Canadian Research film, will conduct the survey on behalf of the city.  Certain households across […]

Last year’s Canadian Western Agribition created lots of positive economic activity for the province. Agribition shared stats from an economic impact study conducted by Praxis Consulting. It showed the 2023 event generated $116.5 million of economic activity in Saskatchewan, including $69.6 million to the provincial GDP. The total economic activity represents a nearly 21 per […]

SASKATOON — The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on both Sask Party leader Scott Moe and NDP leader Carla Beck to commit to join the government of New Brunswick’s legal challenge against the federal carbon tax. “Both Moe and Beck rightly oppose the federal carbon tax, but they need to take the next step and commit to […]

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 77% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 8, a slight deterioration from the 85% order fulfillment performance seen in week 7.  In supplying 85% of cars ordered by shippers in week 8, CN performance saw a modest decline from the 88% order fulfillment performance seen the prior […]

WASHINGTON – According to the U.S. Department of Justice Matthew Norman Ballek, 32, of Saskatchewan, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal child pornography charge stemming from his distribution of child pornography to an undercover law enforcement agent in January 2024. Ballek has been in custody since his Feb. 7 arrest. He now faces a maximum […]

Weather Forecast Temperature Chance Precip Today Partly to mostly sunny   Wind:  S-SE 10-20 km/h High: 20° 0% Tonight Mainly clear   Wind: SE 10-20 km/h  Low: 4° 0% Tuesday Mostly sunny   Wind: S-SE 15-30 km/h High: 23° 0% Tuesday night Clear   Wind: W-SW 15-25 km/h Low: 6° 0% Wednesday Partly sunny   […]

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Canadian events set to mark Oct. 7 anniversary Ceremonies, events and protests are being held across Canada today to mark the anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza. The Oct. 7, […]

The weather for the 2024 CIBC Run for the Cure couldn’t have been better for everyone involved. The annual fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society was held at Douglas Park in Regina under a blue and bright sunny sky, a contrast to the conditions for last year’s event when it was raining and windy. “I […]

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in cities across Canada to remember the victims of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza. In the nation’s capital, a sea of Israeli flags could be seen draped over participants in front of Ottawa City Hall, with Canadian flags waving alongside them […]