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Weyburn awarded 2028 Sask. Summer Games, returning event after two decades
Weyburn has been selected to host the 2028 Saskatchewan Summer Games, returning the multi-sport event to the southeast community for the first time since 2004. The Saskatchewan Games Council announced the decision Monday, saying the weeklong competition is expected to draw about 1,800 athletes, coaches and mission staf...
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Snow is coming
Snowy, windy conditions expected for much of Tuesday
A weather system blowing through the province will bring some freezing rain, snow, and windy conditions to parts of the province. Because of that, most areas are under a Special Weather Statement from Environment and Climate Change Canada. Meteorologist James Colangelo told northeastNOW a low-pressure system in Alberta...
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Rent increase
Rents drop across Canada, except in Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia
Only two jurisdictions in Canada are so far immune to the dropping rents caused by slowed population growth and one of them is Saskatchewan. Numbers from rentals.ca show the average rent across Canada dropped 3.1 per cent - the 14th consecutive month of decline. But that was not the case in Saskatchewan which rose 0.5 ...
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Interest rates
Bank of Canada expected to hold key rate, move to sidelines after an uncertain 2025
Economists widely expect the Bank of Canada will hold its benchmark interest rate steady this week and move to the sidelines to cap off a year dominated by trade and economic uncertainty.The central bank's policy rate stands at 2.25 per cent heading into its final rate decision of the year on Wednesday - a full point l...
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Fire at James Smith
House destroyed by fire at James Smith Cree Nation
The Kinistino Fire Department (KFD) was called to a house fire at James Smith Cree Nation Friday night. Crews were called just after 9:30 p.m., and when they arrived on scene, the house was fully engulfed in fire and flames were showing through the roof. The department worked through a chilly night to extinguish the fl...
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Elk cull
Effect of short-term antlerless elk hunt remain to be seen
The Ministry of Environment said it's too early to assess the full impact of a short-term hunting season for antlerless elk.A total of 11,546 tags were sold for the hunt that run from Nov. 20-27. The government said it was offered in response to growing landowner concerns about the high number of elk congregating on th...
Dec 06, 2025
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Canada
Country singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta
CALGARY - Singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to soon start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the Alberta government to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Elections Alberta posted the off...
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Vancouver gets down to details as it prepares to welcome world after FIFA draw
VANCOUVER - The lead of Vancouver's host committee for the 2026 FIFA World Cup says now that the draw for the tournament is complete, officials can turn to refining safety, security, staffing and traffic plans for what she called the largest-ever sport...
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Air Transat poised to start suspending flights as strike deadline looms
MONTREAL - Air Transat passengers face the prospect of flight suspensions this week as the leisure airline prepares to wind down operations ahead of a Wednesday strike deadline from pilots. Travel company Transat A.T. Inc., which owns the carrier, said...
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Coroner investigating after woman, 88, found dead outside retirement home in Laval
LAVAL - The coroner is investigating the death of an 88-year-old woman found outside a retirement home north of Montreal. Laval police say the woman was found on Monday morning near the Villagia de l'île Paton residence in Laval, Que. Police spokesman ...
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Gull-Masty signals go-slow approach to changing First Nations status eligibility
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty says the Assembly of First Nations sent a strong signal to her government to end the second-generation cutoff in the Indian Act, but her government won't make that change without broad consultation...
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Eby rejects a recall of the legislature, will amend, not repeal UN Indigenous Act
VICTORIA - Opposition politicians and a business group are urging the British Columbia government to recall the legislature in order to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples Act after the province's Appeal Court ruled in favour...
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