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Residents and authorities grapple with air quality conditions as wildfires continue to burn across Canada. Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a special air quality statement for several regions of the province, mainly southeastern Saskatchewan, cautioning residents to take precautions. Conditions are expected to improve in the afternoon, but Environment Canada still warns people to […]

Saskatchewan’s child advocate has released a report saying the province’s pronoun policy in schools violates rights to gender identity and expression. “The policy clearly discriminates against transgender children who are unable or unwilling to seek parental consent for the use of their preferred name and pronouns,” said Lisa Broda in a 41-page report released Friday. […]

A business that is celebrating 120 years of service to Saskatchewan is being honoured at this weekend’s ABEX Awards in Saskatoon. The Hill Group of Companies is being inducted into the Saskatchewan Business Hall of Fame. It started out as McCallum Hill in 1903 and was mostly in real estate in Saskatchewan. Over time that […]

Canada is postponing a trade mission to India that federal Trade Minister Mary Ng had promoted as key to the Indo-Pacific strategy.  Ng’s office has not explained why the trip, which was scheduled to start Oct. 9, has been postponed. Canada has paused negotiations for a trade deal with India, and relations between Prime Minister […]

By:  Kelly Geraldine Malone in Saskatoon A specialized RCMP team that deals with high-risk situations was not immediately available to respond to a stabbing rampage and hunt for a mass killer in Saskatchewan because it was “in between contracts,” internal emails show. Documents obtained under freedom of information laws show Ottawa’s Emergency Response Team-Special Activities Group, also known […]

Regina police said 10 people were arrested following a recent police operation led by the Regina Police Service Street Gang Unit (SGU). At about 2 p.m. on Saturday, members of the Street Gang Unit and the SWAT team entered a residence in the 1200 block of Angus Street. A total of 13 people were inside the […]

The subject of houselessness once again was the major topic of discussion for city council. At a tense meeting yesterday, council voted down a motion that would have seen the city declare a houslessness crisis. Mayor Sandra Masters says a motion like this sounds helpful, but it may not be. “The feedback we have received […]

-Bill Graveland, Calgary- A lawyer for the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash told a federal judge Wednesday that the Canada Border Services Agency should not have recommended his client be deported. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced in 2019 to eight years after he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death […]

Premier Scott Moe is ready to use the notwithstanding clause to protect a new rule requiring parental permission for transgender and nonbinary students to use different names or pronouns at school. In the face of a court challenge brought against the new education policy, Moe announced late last week that his provincial government would seek […]

A 75-year-old man from Medicine Hat has died after a two vehicle collision on Highway #7, just west of Tessier, Saskatchewan. A westbound semi collided with an eastbound SUV carrying the man and another passenger at about 1:20 p.m. yesterday. That passenger was taken to hospital with injuries described as serious in nature. The driver […]