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City of Regina appoints new integrity commissioner
REGINA - Patricia Farnese has been named the new integrity commissioner for the City of Regina. Per a media release, Farnese will take over the role come Jan. 1, 2026. "Public trust in government is b...
Oct 28, 2025 The City of Regina's new integrity commissioner has over 20 years of experience in law, including roles at the City of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan. Courtesy of the University of Saskatchwan
Canada cancelled its digital services tax. What was it and why did the U.S. hate it?
OTTAWA - Tech giants such as Amazon and Google will not have to shell out close to $2 billion as expected today, as Canada moved to cancel the controversial digital services tax on Sunday, just one da...
Jun 30, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump engage in a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Family says John McCallum, mainstay of Liberal politics, dead at 75
John McCallum, a former Liberal cabinet minister and a mainstay of 21st century Canadian politics, has died at age 75, his family confirmed on Sunday. A statement said McCallum passed away peacefully ...
Jun 22, 2025 Political veteran John McCallum has died at the age of 75. McCallum, at the time Canada's ambassador to China, pictured arriving to brief members of the Foreign Affairs committee regarding China in Ottawa on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Royal tour a powerful symbolic moment for Canadians gathered in Ottawa
Royal watchers shared mixed emotions as they waited to catch a glimpse of King Charles and Queen Camilla touring through downtown Ottawa in a horse-drawn carriage Tuesday - one of the closing moments ...
May 27, 2025 King Charles waves to the crowd as he departs a community gathering at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa during a royal visit on Monday, May 26, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Bank of Canada holds key rate steady amid trade war
Bank of Canada is hitting pause after seven straight interest rate cuts as it grapples with global trade uncertainty. The central bank held its benchmark interest rate steady at 2.75 per cent today, t...
Apr 16, 2025 The Bank of Canada is set to make an interest rate decision on April 16, 2025. The Bank of Canada building is shown in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Party leaders in Montreal ahead of this week's election debates
Federal party leaders are campaigning in the Montreal area ahead of the two election debates that will take place Wednesday and Thursday. It will be the first time Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conse...
Apr 15, 2025 This composite image made from five file photos shows, from left to right, Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet in Trois Rivieres, Que., Saturday, April 12, 2025; NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in Toronto on Monday, April 14, 2025; Liberal Leader Mark Carney in Brampton, Ont., on Thursday, April 10, 2025; Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in Ottawa, Sunday, April 13, 2025 and co-leader of the Green Party Jonathan Pedneault in Montreal, Thursday, April 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot, Chris Young, Sean Kilpatrick, Spencer Colby, Mathieu Catafard
Poilievre promises tougher ethics rules, takes aim at Carney's assets
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to tighten financial transparency rules for elected officials - and is using that promise to take aim at Liberal Leader Mark Carney. Poilievre told a ...
Apr 14, 2025 Liberal Leader Mark Carney arrives for a television interview at Maison de Radio Canada during a campaign stop in Montreal on Sunday, April 13, 2025. Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are both campaigning in Montreal today, days before the federal leaders take part in debates. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Dueling emergency motions at the Leg
REGINA - It was two different fates for two emergency motions presented in the Legislative Assembly on Monday. An NDP bid for an emergency motion to overturn the recently passed provincial budget pred...
Apr 01, 2025 Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon seen putting the 2025-26 budget in the shredder.John Cairns
Premier Moe says Sask. is now carbon tax free
Story By: John Cairns REGINA - Premier Scott Moe has announced Saskatchewan will be the first carbon tax free province in Canada. Moe made the announcement in a social media post that went out on the ...
Mar 27, 2025
Budget 2025: a $12 million surplus
REGINA - The 2025 Saskatchewan provincial budget is balanced. That is the big story to emerge from the release of the 2025 Saskatchewan provincial budget, which was officially tabled in the Legislativ...
Mar 19, 2025
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