The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says businesses need to be better educated on cannabis legislation. One year after cannabis was legalized in Canada, CFIB did a survey with employers where six in 10 businesses ranked the provincial government’s efforts to educate them on the rules and regulations as poor or very poor. CFIB’s Marilyn […]
If you need to call SaskTel for something on Monday, you might not have any luck. Striking workers formed a perimeter around the company’s call centre on Henderson Drive in Regina Monday morning preventing managers from entering the building and filling in, meaning for the time being the centre is not in operation. Chris MacDonald, […]
The union representing around 4,700 workers at SaskTel, two of their subsidiaries along with SaskPower, Sask Energy, SaskWater and the Water Security agency have given notice that “work-to-rule” job action will begin Monday morning. Unifor released a statement Saturday afternoon saying no further negotiations with the provincial government are planned for the weekend and the […]
Apparently, Beyond Meat burgers don’t go that well with Tim Hortons coffee, as the chain says it’s dropping the alternative protein products at thousands of Canadian locations, just three months after introducing them. The vegetable-based Beyond Burgers are being taken off menus nationally, while Beyond Meat breakfast sandwiches will be removed from all locations except […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Wednesday he will start to pay for his promised $9 billion in tax cuts by finding a way to cut $1.5 billion from annual subsidies to Canadian corporations. Scheer spent most of Wednesday campaigning at small businesses in Hamilton and Richmond Hill, Ont., trying to drill home his campaign theme […]
Public sector purchasers and Saskatchewan suppliers met on Thursday at the Queensbury Convention Centre for the 2019 Business Opportunity Expo. The venue hosted hundreds of entrepreneurs, public sector organizations and government representatives for the one-day event, providing face-to-face interactions involving public procurement opportunities. According to a release from the government, representatives from the government’s Single […]
It is news that workers at three Nutrien potash mines did not want to hear. The company has announced it will be shutting down its Allan, Lanigan and Vanscoy mines for eight weeks meaning workers at the three facilities will be laid off in November. Nutrien says the move is being done in response to […]
Crescent Point Energy Corp has announced it would exit Uinta Basin in Utah and sell parts of its assets in southeast Saskatchewan for about $912 million as it looks to cut debt under a new management. The Uinta Basin asset, expected to produce about 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in 2020, was […]
It has been the desire of travellers and the Regina Airport to once again establish direct service from the Queen City to an American destination on a daily basis. The head of the Regina Airport Authority is hoping a decision by Regina Council on Monday night puts them one step closer to achieving that mission, […]
Veterans are heading to business boot-camp at the University of Regina this week. The school is once again hosting the Prince’s Operation Entrepreneur program which helps members leaving the military to launch a second career in business by training them for a week in networking, business planning and accounting. Associate Professor at the Paul J. […]
