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REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's glad to see Prime Minister Mark Carney go to China next week to talk trade as punishing tariffs continue to hammer a major Prairie crop.
REGINA -- The Saskatchewan government is rejecting calls from the Opposition for an emergency legislative session on affordability issues, including proposed rate hikes to power and car insurance.
REGINA -- Changes to employment standards in Saskatchewan kick in today, affecting workers who collect tips or call in sick.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott began the year with a smaller crew of mostly newbies, pledging to do better on everything from health care and education to balancing budgets.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced a big shakeup of his cabinet, introducing new faces, dropping veterans, while mixing and matching job titles. "Nearly half of our government caucus was first elected in 2024, but I didn't want to bring too many brand-new members into cabinet right after the election," Moe said in a statement Thursday as the new cabinet was...
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe shook up his cabinet Thursday, introducing new faces, dropping veterans and mixing and matching job titles.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's auditor says a $6.8-million subsidy the City of Regina is paying Costco could have been avoided had a provincial Crown corporation properly communicated with the giant retail company about its new location.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government tabled a bill Friday to force treatment on those battling drug addictions, a plan a mother of two dead sons says would have helped them.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's fall legislative sitting is set to wrap up with Premier Scott Moe's government set to table a bill that aims to help those battling drug addictions.
REGINA -- Despite Saskatchewan's government earmarking an additional $1 billion in spending, the finance minister says it won't change the province's bottom line.
REGINA -- A former fire base supervisor with the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says he quit his job out of frustration as a wildfire tore through a northern village earlier this summer.
REGINA -- About 5,000 patients in Regina are now searching for a new family doctor after a clinic that received government money closed over the weekend.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's new child-care deal is to see Ottawa spend $1.6 billion over five years to support $10-a-day care, a move early learning educators say brings stability to the sector.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's new child-care deal will see Ottawa spend $1.6 billion over five years to support $10-a-day care.
REGINA -- Canadian veterinarians no longer have to access to 40 per cent of medications they once were able to use, a figure the head of the national association says is worrying.
REGINA -- This year's Saskatchewan budget is sinking deeper into the red, mainly due to the cost of fighting the summer's wildfires.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Finance Minister Jim Reiter is set to deliver the midterm update on this year's provincial budget today.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's hopeful the federal government and Alberta can make progress on getting a pipeline built and allowing some tanker traffic on the northern B.C. coast. Moe says the measures would support Saskatchewan's goal of exporting more potash, agricultural products and oil. The Globe and Mail newspaper is reporting Ottawa, which is in talks with Alberta...
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's hopeful the federal government and Alberta can make progress on getting a pipeline built and allowing some tanker traffic on the northern B.C. coast.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government has signed its first contracts with nurse practitioners to expand primary care.
SASKATOON -- Premier Scott Moe has received more than 80 per cent support from members at his Saskatchewan Party's convention.
SASKATOON -- Premier Scott Moe says he takes responsibility for his Saskatchewan Party's losses in the province's two major cities.
Premier Scott Moe has received more than 80 per cent support from members at his Saskatchewan Party's convention. Organizers of the gathering did not provide Moe's exact approval rating percentage. Ahead of the vote, Moe had told the gathering he plans on running in the next election, but the party needs to do better.
SASKATOON -- Premier Scott Moe says he takes responsibility for his Saskatchewan Party's losses in the province's two major cities.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's governing party is hoping to regain support from the province's two major cities as members prepare to meet at its biennial convention this weekend.
REGINA -- Premier Scott Moe is defending a possible move that would allow only Canadian citizens and adults to be voting members of his Saskatchewan Party.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's premier is teaming up with the province's largest, most-huggable rodent to cheer on the Green Riders in the CFL's West final this weekend.
REGINA -- A Saskatchewan firefighter who was on the front lines before his half his community burned down earlier this summer says the province provided little reinforcements.
REGINA -- The Saskatchewan government is committing to daily updates on which health facilities and services are being temporarily closed.
REGINA -- Regina's police chief has been fired following a misconduct investigation involving inappropriate text messages, the city's mayor announced Tuesday.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan politicians levelled accusations of preening and reckless behaviour as they debated China's punishing tariffs on Canadian canola in the legislature Thursday.
REGINA -- As Saskatchewan politicians return to work in the legislature, Premier Scott Moe's government is promising new rules to get tough on drugs and to help those battling addictions.
REGINA -- Premier Scott Moe is set to unveil his government's agenda for the year in today's throne speech.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is set to face questions about affordability, hospitals and damaging canola tariffs when the legislature resumes Wednesday.
REGINA -- Prominent lawyer Tony Merchant, well known for spearheading class-action lawsuits across the country, has died.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is facing calls to get his story straight on the fate of a homeless shelter in downtown Moose Jaw.
SASKATOON -- One of Canada's premier vaccine centres celebrates its 50th birthday this week, but researchers say it comes amid unease over U.S. policy changes and funding cuts that threaten to upend the global fight against disease.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government is hoping the Supreme Court of Canada will quickly hear its appeal to a ruling on the province's school pronoun law, citing the legal case as one of national importance.
REGINA -- The Saskatchewan Party members of a legislature committee have rejected a bid by the Opposition NDP to expand the auditor's probe into problems with the province's wildfire fighting aircraft.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's auditor says she is going to look into the purchase of pricey firefighting airplanes amid allegations that Premier Scott Moe's government vastly overpaid for them.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney's parliamentary secretary will go to China to join Saskatchewan's efforts to get Beijing to scrap its canola tariffs and address other "trade irritants," the prime minister's office said Thursday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's parliamentary secretary will go to China to join Saskatchewan's efforts to get Beijing to scrap its canola tariffs and address other "trade irritants," the prime minister's office said Thursday. Carney's office said in a statement Nova Scotia MP Kody Blois plans to join Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe for the three-day trade mission, which starts Saturday, to...
As Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola products continue to hamper the cash price of one of the country's most valuable crops, farming experts say producers have big decisions ahead of them. Market analyst Chuck Penner with LeftField Commodity Research said while future prices are down slightly, the cash price farmers receive for their canola, also known as the basis, is...
As Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola products continue to hamper the cash price of one of the country's most valuable crops, farming experts say producers have big decisions ahead of them.
SASKATOON -- Saskatchewan's financial fortunes this year have taken a dramatic hit.
A Chinese tariff of nearly 76 per cent on Canadian canola seed came into force Thursday, with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre again calling on Ottawa to act. The duty, announced Tuesday, has already caused the price of one of Canada's most valuable crops to fall, wiping out millions of dollars in its value. At a Thursday news conference, Poilievre repeated...
SASKATOON -- A Chinese tariff of nearly 76 per cent on Canadian canola seed came into force Thursday, with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre again calling on Ottawa to act.
Farmer Bill Prybylski says China's planned tariff on canola seed wasn't factored into his business equations this year.
Canada's canola industry is urging Ottawa to act as farmers brace for steep losses over a planned 75.8 per cent preliminary tariff from China on canola seed. "The Chinese market is effectively closed to the Canadian canola industry, and this is a market that was valued at just under $5 billion," Chris Davison, president of the Canola Council of Canada...
Canada's canola industry is urging Ottawa to act as farmers brace for steep losses over a planned 75.8 per cent preliminary tariff from China on canola seed.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says Prime Minister Mark Carney should start removing counter tariffs against the United States to get a deal done with President Donald Trump. U.S Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has asked Ottawa to do away with countermeasures, and Moe says Canada should heed the advice. "If we're serious about achieving a renewed, revamped and enhanced trade environment...
SASKATOON -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says Prime Minister Mark Carney should start removing counter tariffs against the United States to get a deal done with President Donald Trump.
REGINA -- American pop star Chappell Roan is creating excitement in an often-overlooked Canadian province, with her latest single supercharging fans in Saskatchewan's LGBTQ+ community.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan is set to get help from Ottawa as dozens of wildfires burn in the province.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's justice minister says he wants answers on why the RCMP's commanding officer in the province was abruptly removed.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government says it's finishing the last fiscal year with a $249-million deficit.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government is planning to extend the life of the province's coal plants before moving to nuclear power generation, says a letter from the Crown Investments Corporation Minister.
REGINA -- About 7,000 people in and around La Ronge, Sask., will be allowed to return home on Thursday after the lifting of a wildfire evacuation order, the director of the local emergency operation centre said Tuesday.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's ombudsman says Premier Scott Moe's government is failing to provide immediate food, shelter and even basic information to wildfire evacuees.
REGINA -- As wildfires continue to devour buildings and force thousands from their homes in Saskatchewan, the Opposition NDP is calling on Premier Scott Moe to ask for help from the military.