Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News

VANCOUVER - The mother of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim Maya Gebala says they have been "overwhelmed" by letters and packages from well wishers and she's asking them to stop sending any more. Cia Edmo...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada said the economy faced sharp job losses in February in a report that suggests the labour market is struggling after nearly a year of U.S. tariff pressures. "This was a very ...

OTTAWA - Canada will maintain its sanctions on Russia and its shadow fleet of oil transports, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's move to ease sanctions, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday. T...

ST. JOHN'S - On Thursday morning, 68-year-old Mava Brydges put the weight of a household refrigerator onto her back, lowered herself toward the floor and then stood up again. Her 132.5-kilogram squat ...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives have now named candidates for all three upcoming byelections. The party announced that middle school teacher Diana Filipova will run in Scarborough Southwest. That seat was ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will maintain its sanctions on Russia and its shadow fleet of oil transports. The United States today placed a 30-day waiver on its Russian oil sanction...

MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada is heading to South Korea for a five-day trip aimed at strengthening economic and cultural ties. Martinez Ferrada and about 50 other delegates will vi...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has expanded its trade investigations to 60 countries, including Canada, in an effort to shore up the president's tariff policies. "We are trying to move very qui...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in February. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in February. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador ...