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China's government announced Friday it would suspend some tariffs on Canadian agricultural goods and seafood following a recent visit by Prime Minister Mark Carney. The country's finance ministry said in a statement that 100 per cent tariffs on canola meal and peas, and a 25 per cent levy on lobsters and crabs, won't be imposed. The statement, which made no...
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's not expecting Canada to make a trade deal with India ahead of his trip to the country with Prime Minister Mark Carney. Moe says he hopes the meetings this week will "reinvigorate" both countries to move toward establishing a better trading relationship. But the premier says he has concerns India might raise tariffs on...
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's not expecting Canada to make a trade deal with India ahead of his trip to the country with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP is calling on Premier Scott Moe's government to open the books for spending an extra $655 million.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government says it has reached a $4.8-million settlement with a tire recycling company.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP is accusing the province of acting slowly on addressing hospital safety concerns, arguing it doesn't need another report to examine issues.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan's government is launching an independent third-party review into hospital security while also installing metal detectors in emergency rooms following concerns of growing violence.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and canola farmers are hailing Canada's new trade deal with China as "very good news" that could restore exports for the major Prairie crop. The deal will see China significantly reduce tariffs on Canadian canola seed — and at least temporarily remove tariffs on canola meal — in exchange for Ottawa making concessions on Chinese electric vehicles duties.
Regina -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and canola farmers are hailing Canada's new trade deal with China as "very good news" that could restore exports for the major Prairie crop.
REGINA -- A machine in Saskatchewan that's vital for diagnosing cancer is working at full capacity after it was disrupted two weeks ago.
Canadian farmers are hoping for a breakthrough on punishing tariffs as Prime Minister Mark Carney talks trade in China this week. Rick White, president of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, says Beijing's steep levies on the major Prairie crop will cost producers at least $2 billion this year if the issue isn't resolved. "Farmers are already frustrated. They're exasperated, they're...
Canadian farmers are hoping for a breakthrough on punishing tariffs as Prime Minister Mark Carney talks trade in China this week.
REGINA -- After noticing more people grow desperate to find a family doctor in Regina, David Nnamdi says he decided to take the problem into his own hands.
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.