Saskatchewan

budget
Budget offers little new relief for middle-income Canadians
OTTAWA - The latest federal budget promises billions of dollars in affordability relief, but middle-income Canadians struggling with the cost of living may find little new immediate help in the spending plan.While Ottawa earmarked fresh assistance for lower-income households in Budget 2026, families with earnings above...
Nov 8, 2026
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Saskatoon opens one-of-a-kind support centre for families of MMIWG2S+
Adorned on nearly every wall and corner of the new Coming Home Centre is proof of a place where families have been supported and nurtured. Paintings, drawings, dreamcatchers, handmade crafts, letters, carvings, and countless other personal items given to Dorthea Swiftwolfe, Saskatoon's Auntie Advocate, as a gift for he...
Nov 8, 2026
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care homes
Advocate looks for more regulation, not fines, for personal care homes
This week, the Sask. Party government introduced a bill that would add teeth to the current regulations for personal care homes in the province, however an advocate doesn't believe that will do much.The Personal Care Homes (Safer Homes for Seniors) Amendment Act was introduced on Thursday. According to the provincial g...
Nov 7, 2026
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Way, way, down.
No snow, no wind, no bugs: Going underground at Cigar Lake
If you've lived in Saskatchewan for any length of time, you know better than to put too much faith in the weather forecast.One day you're enjoying the sunshine; the next, you're searching for your warmest mitts, scraping frost off the windshield and wondering why you didn't get the snow tires on sooner.It's the kind of...
Nov 7, 2026
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Canada

Ottawa easing some temporary foreign worker rules, focus on early childhood educators
OTTAWA - The federal government is extending the period of time a business can employ a low-wage temporary foreign worker. The change will mean a low-wage Labour Market Impact Assessment, the document an employer needs to hire a temporary foreign worke...
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In the news today: gun ban court fight, OSAP pause, B.C. storms, laboratory fined
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Legal battle over federal firearms ban heads to Supreme Court of Canada The country's top court is set to hear legal arguments this week about the validity of a fe...
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B.C. lab ordered to pay $32K for misgendering transgender, non-binary patients
British Columbia's human rights tribunal has ruled that a private laboratory provider must pay $32,000 in damages, along with other costs, for discriminating against transgender and non-binary patients. The tribunal found LifeLabs and its subsidiary Ex...
6h ago
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Third storm heads for already drenched B.C. coast
VANCOUVER - The third in a series of storms is heading for British Columbia, after wild weather knocked out power to thousands, triggered evacuations and left one person dead over the weekend. Environment Canada issued wind warnings and special statem...
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Legal battle over federal firearms ban heads to Supreme Court of Canada
OTTAWA - The country's top court is set to hear legal arguments this week about the validity of a federal ban on hundreds of types of firearms the government says are fit only for the battlefield. The hearings, slated for Monday and Tuesday at the Supr...
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Why Indigenous stewards are bringing 'good fire' back to Canada's forests
Spring comes to Leona Antoine's field in patches. The snow retreats from the Nicola River valley, leaving islands of wet grass scattered across her family's land. It's an invitation to carry on a practice she first learned from her grandfather. Antoi...
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