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Canada, India trade deal negotiations good news for Saskatchewan
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are reviving attempts at a comprehensive trade deal, which both countries started negotiating in 2010."The two leaders...
Nov 24, 2025
Saskatchewan launches small and medium-sized business tax credit
The Government of Saskatchewan is introducing a new pilot program meant to help local businesses grow.On Friday, the province launched the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Investment Tax Credit.It al...
Nov 22, 2025
Beardy's and Okemasis Cree Nation building grocery store
Beardy's and Okemasis Cree Nation is embarking on a new venture with the construction of its own grocery store.Chief Edwin Ananas and council made the announcement Thursday morning at the site of the ...
Nov 13, 2025
SaskTel to provide mental wellness app to wireless customers
It's an initiative that's the first of its kind for SaskTel - offering access to mindfulness and stress-reduction resources to help customers improve their overall wellbeing. The crown corporation par...
Nov 12, 2025
Holiday favourite: Meadow Lake's largest Christmas market is set for Nov. 22
Twinkling lights, the smell of baked goods, and the sound of cheerful chatter - it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas again in Meadow Lake. After five years away, the community's largest holiday...
Nov 12, 2025
Affordability gap leaves Liberal budget with middling reviews: Leger poll
OTTAWA - New polling suggests Canadians had a lukewarm response to the federal budget released last week - leading one pollster to argue all parties should think twice before mounting an election camp...
Nov 12, 2025
MP Rosemarie Falk calls new federal budget 'costly,' says it overlooks rural Sask.
Battlefords-Lloydminster-Meadow Lake MP Rosemarie Falk says the new federal budget will do little to make life more affordable for Canadians, calling it a "costly" plan that overlooks the realities of...
Nov 06, 2025
Budget shows Canada becoming more business-friendly, says Foran Mining
Leadership from the company that owns and is developing the McIlvenna Bay copper/zinc mine near Creighton say the federal budget tabled yesterday is good for their industry and general investor confid...
Nov 05, 2025
Champagne’s biggest test yet — selling a ‘generational’ budget to anxious Canadians
OTTAWA - As Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to sell Canadians on his first-ever budget - one that he's billed as containing both once-in-a generation capital spending projects and austerity measures ...
Nov 04, 2025
Townspeople of Duck Lake will make final name change decision
As the shock of hearing that the mayor and council of Duck Lake are taking proposals to rename the community wears off, Mayor Jason Anderson said that it will be up to community members to make the fi...
Nov 03, 2025