Tag Archives: Business & Economy

No details: Alberta energy minister announces date for start of coal consultations
EDMONTON - Alberta says public consultations on coal mining will begin March 29 but there's no decision yet on how they will go ahead. "I have directed my department officials to bring forward a compr...
Feb 23, 2021

P.A. MP joins new special committee on relations with U.S.
Prince Albert MP Conservative Randy Hoback is one of the 12 members of a new Special Parliamentary Committee on Canada-U.S. Economic Relations. He hopes it will nurture a better relationship with the ...
Feb 20, 2021

New gun law has Sask. gun owners feeling targeted
A new bill by the Trudeau government has gun owners feeling frustrated.On Tuesday, the Liberal government introduced a bill allowing owners of banned assault-style guns to give them up voluntarily for...
Feb 18, 2021

Unpaid oilpatch property taxes triple in two years, say rural municipalities
EDMONTON - Alberta's rural towns say property taxes that have gone unpaid by the province's struggling oilpatch have tripled in two years. A survey released by the Rural Municipalities of Alberta says...
Feb 18, 2021

Saskatchewan billionaire, Prince Albert's Michelle Zatlyn, becomes Wall Street tech titan
It has been 17 months since Prince Albert's Michelle Zatlyn spoke to us after she and co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange following the hugely successful IPO...
Feb 16, 2021

New provincial record set for gas consumption
A new record has been set in Saskatchewan, beating a previous record that was set a little more than a year ago.In a release, SaskEnergy announced a new record of 1.57 petajoules (PJ) was set Tuesday....
Feb 10, 2021

Roadmap to speedy changes on new direction for inland fishery
Regional First Nations leaders are happy to hear recommendations from an independent adviser to Ottawa that support a fisher-led cooperative model as the way forward for the Freshwater Fish Marketing ...
Feb 09, 2021

'We have to look forward': Municipalities of Saskatchewan elects new president
The Municipalities of Saskatchewan has elected a new president.Mayor of the Town of Naicam, Rodger Hayward, was elected as president on Monday, Feb. 8 at the organization's virtual convention and trad...
Feb 09, 2021

Sask. investment adviser weighs in on stock market volatility as brokerages limit trading
There's a lot of education involved to try and understand the speculative trading that has taken the American economy by surprise this week, especially if stock markets aren't your thing.Riley Sittler...
Jan 29, 2021

‘World needs what Sask. has to offer’: Ag powers exports during pandemic
Saskatchewan's agriculture industry has proven it can help prop up the province and keep it competitive, even in the middle of a pandemic."In Canada, trade and exports to countries around the world is...
Jan 22, 2021