The “Lifelong Learning Centre” at the University of Regina is being shut down, and the NDP is crying “foul”. According to the Saskatchewan NDP, The U of R warned the Sask Party government months ago that without new funding, they wouldn’t be able to continue the program, There was no funding offered from the government […]
SaskEnergy announced they are applying to the Saskatchewan Rate Review Panel (SRRP) to adjust its commodity and delivery service rates. SaskEnergy is set to submit a proposal to the review panel for a 22.1 per cent decrease in the commodity rate, dropping it from $4.20 to $3.30 per gigajoule. The crown corporation will also bring […]
Premiers from Western Canada said Tuesday they are “extremely disappointed” in the federal government for not passing reforms to the bail system to target repeat offenders before Parliament rose last week for the summer. Speaking at the conclusion of the western premiers’ conference in Whistler, B.C., host Premier David Eby urged the federal government to […]
The bill to exempt grain drying and heating barns from the federal carbon tax is making progress. Bill-C234 passed second reading in the Senate, and goes to committee for further discussion. But with only two weeks left before the upper chamber rises for the summer break, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan Ian […]
The Saskatchewan Alliance for Water Sustainability (SAWS) and the Sask. NDP Critic for the Water Security Agency, raised concerns Monday of the WSA’s Agricultural Water Stewardship Policy. SAWS says the policy lacks, among other things, requirements to restore drained wetlands, and “no explicit plan to improve water quality already damaged by wetland drainage and other […]
Former governor general David Johnston says he will begin holding public meetings next month on foreign interference attempts in Canada’s elections, and the ongoing politicization of the issue will not deter him from his work. He said reforms are urgently needed because there are “serious shortcomings” in how the Liberal government deals with the flow […]
Lane Mountney spreads a map over his kitchen table at his farmhouse in southeast Saskatchewan, pointing to yellow and orange arrows slithering across the document. Many of the arrows represent existing channels and ditches, moving across fields and out of wetlands to drain water. The arrows eventually make their way to a creek, causing what […]
There is relief for now as a deal to increase the U.S. Debt Ceiling was struck between U.S. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday. Ranulf Glanville, a Chief Market Analyst with GrainFox, says the deal prevents the United States from defaulting, meaning they wouldn’t be able to pay its bills. However, […]
It’s election day in Alberta in what polls suggest could be a nail-biter finish between the province’s two dominant parties. Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party is fighting to win a second consecutive majority government, while Rachel Notley’s NDP is trying to regain the government it lost to the UCP in 2019. Both leaders have been […]
Dallon Leger thought he was part of the solution. The entrepreneur from Yorkton, says he collected more than 1.8 million kilograms of used grain bags over the past few years, helping his neighbours deal with their mounting plastic problem. Leger’s business, EcoGenX, transported the grain bags to a company in the United States that would […]
