The Canadian government has restored funding to Hockey Canada. Hockey Canada made the announcement Sunday — and Canadian sport minister Pascale St-Onge made it official — before the Canada-United States gold-medal game at the world women’s hockey championship. “When we suspended the funding for Hockey Canada, it was never a matter of doing it forever. […]
The City of Regina received $2.96 million from the Government of Canada to help address gun and gang violence. Pam Damoff, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety, was in Regina for the announcement, which will be funded through the $250 million Building Safer Communities Fund to help address the underlying conditions that give […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining Canada’s premiers at the table today where he is set to offer them a significant increase towards health-care funding. The premiers say they are going into the talks with an open mind, no red line and a willingness to sign one-on-one agreements with Ottawa for more money. British Columbia Premier David Eby says […]
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says it is dismayed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not visit the First Nation where a child’s bone was found at a former residential school site while he was in the province. The Star Blanket Cree Nation announced last week that a fragment of a child’s jawbone was unearthed […]
Agriculture minister David Marit has some concerns about Ottawas consultation process on a sustainable agriculture strategy. Ottawa is looking for input from farmers and others on policies that will help shape the future of agriculture in this country. Marit fears a top down approach from Ottawa with more restrictive farm regulations. Marit also fears the […]
APAS has joined the list of farm organizations that submitted comments to the federal government addressing concerns with the proposed 30 per cent fertilizer emissions target for 2030. Ian Boxall, the President of APAS, said that Saskatchewan had made a lot of changes to how fertilizer is applied. “What the country – including the federal […]
Michael Kram, Member of Parliament for Regina-Wascana, will be helping to lead a federal investigation into last week’s nationwide Rogers Communications outage. Kram and the three other Conservative MPs on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology sent a joint letter to Parliament demanding an emergency committee meeting to investigate the outage. […]
The federal government is providing over one million dollars to SomaDetect and Vivid Machines to help producers improve farm management and their bottom line. SomaDetect of Nova Scotia will develop and combine its sensors and artificial intelligence to deliver real-time milk quality information for dairy farmers. Vivid Machines of Toronto will provide fruit and […]
Agriculture Canada has announced an online consultation process is open on a National Farm Labour strategy. The online consultation is open from now until September 28th. The process will seek recommendations to address chronic farm workforce challenges to build short and long-term solutions to attract a skilled workforce. The federal government is reaching out […]
Earlier this week, the Federal Government announced new firearm legislation to further strengthen gun control in Canada and keep Canadians safe from gun violence. Bill C-21 includes: -Implementing a national freeze on handguns to prevent individuals from bringing newly acquired handguns into Canada and from buying, selling, and transferring handguns within the country -Taking away […]
