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The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation is encouraged by Budget 2025-26. Based on a preliminary review, it reflects commitments made in the Throne Speech and will make some gains towards restoring per-student funding. “This is another step in the right direction,” says STF President Samantha Becotte. “In last fall’s election, the STF asked parties to invest in public education […]

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 Legislative Assembly on Wednesday afternoon. In his budget address Finance Minister Jim Reiter confirmed the province will have a projected $12 million surplus.  Total […]

REGINA – The budget documents are ready and printed and the new shoes are ready to be worn for Finance Minister Jim Reiter’s first Saskatchewan provincial budget on Wednesday. As is tradition, the printed budget books were delivered to Reiter in the finance minister’s office on Tuesday afternoon, one day before Reiter is set to rise […]

MOOSE JAW — City council had nothing but high praise for the announcement that city hall had secured a new naming rights partner for the Events Centre and a new name for the building. “This is great news,” Coun. Chris Warren said during the March 10 regular meeting, after it was announced that the city and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada, escalating a trade war with the United States’ northern neighbor. Trump said on social media that the increase of the tariffs set to take effect on Wednesday is a response to the price increases […]

Even when Mark Carney was still in high school, his friends bugged him about whether he would become prime minister one day. His answer was one fit for a future politician: to never confirm nor deny. Carney, a devout catholic who hails from Fort Smith, N.W.T. and turns 60 next week, cleared his first major […]

Federal Liberals elected Mark Carney to lead their party into the next election in a resounding first-ballot victory on Sunday. He beat former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, Liberal MP Karina Gould and former Liberal MP Frank Baylis by capturing 85.9 per cent of the vote. This brings an end to an unusually short, two-month long […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that freedom, democracy and Canada “are not a given” in his farewell speech to Liberals as they prepare to select a new leader. This comes as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens Canada with economic annexation and places tariffs on Canadian imports coming into the States. In Trudeau’s speech, the outgoing […]

MOOSE JAW — City manager Maryse Carmichael says the City of Moose Jaw’s landfill replacement project will “absolutely” be moving forward this year, even though an alternative location has not yet been announced. “As we brief (city) council and residents, we are at a critical state with the landfill (because) we are at capacity,” Carmichael said after […]

REGINA – The Regina Exhibition Association Ltd. (REAL) potential budget for 2025 was a big topic during Wednesday’s city council meeting. REAL is seeking over $12.7 million from the city, which is broken down into different parts. Over $4.2 million is for their annual operating grant, which covers their financial losses in the 2025 budget. REAL […]