Saskatoon News
Taxes have become a central theme in the first half of British Columbia's election campaign with leaders promising to hold, hike or cut them.
Whether it's taxing the wealthy to pay for services like health care or suggesting that tax cuts will "supercharge" the economy, whoever becomes premier... Read more
MONTREAL — When former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne watched the results of Quebec’s election come in, she says she couldn’t help but draw parallels between herself and Christine Fréchette.
The outgoing Quebec premier stepped down as leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec after her party failed to... Read more
VICTORIA — A candidate for British Columbia's provincial election, kicked from the Conservatives over online posts the NDP called racist, says he is truly sorry.
Victoria-Beacon Hill candidate Joachim Agou says on social media that he takes responsibility for his words but rejects any accusation of... Read more
A full bus might be a pain for transit riders, but it was a welcome sight for the Regina & District Food Bank on Thursday.
The Jack 94.5 Stuff the Bus campaign collected 9,977... Read more
2:05 – Starting Lineup
It feels like it’s been forever, but the Saskatchewan Roughriders are back at practice. The NFL is in action tonight with the Buccaneers facing the Cowboys. The Milwaukee Brewers are off to the National League Championship Series. Daaaaaa... Read more
GRAND RAPIDS — Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers faced pressure over U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada during a heated debate tonight.
Rogers was asked about his changing stance on tariffs targeting Canada — noting his advertisement released Wednesday that went against a... Read more
The pedestrian killed Wednesday afternoon on Ring Road has been identified as 86-year-old Qili Dong.
According to a Regina police news release, officers were... Read more
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says it's putting money down for a police officer to track cattle rustlers.
The government says the funding to the RCMP for a dedicated cattle officer comes as the province saw 57 reported cases of theft and fraud in the cattle industry between 2021 and 2025.... Read more
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is ordering the City of Edmonton to ditch rule changes designed to promote multi-unit housing development.
It’s a decision Edmonton’s mayor and municipal leaders call uninformed and insulting.
Smith, speaking Thursday to reporters in the backyard of a... Read more
Head coach Corey Mace knows there was disappointment in the locker room as the team returned to practice this week.
Saskatchewan let an opportunity — and the season series — slip away in... Read more
Taxation is back at the forefront of the British Columbia election campaign.
Here are some of the latest developments from the campaign trail on Thursday.
B.C. CONSERVATIVES OFFER $1,000 TAX CUT
Interim leader of the B.C. Conservatives Lorne Doerkson says he would cut provincial taxes by $1... Read more
Looking in the rear-view mirror wasn’t enough to keep a 22-year-old from getting arrested because officers were tracking him from above.
According to an RCMP release, on the evening of Sept. 25,... Read more
A northern Saskatchewan wildfire that burned more than 200,000 hectares of forest and caused more than $10 million in damages and resource costs has led to a six-year prison sentence.... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball proposed to shorten the regular season to 154 games from 162 starting in 2029 and to expand the Division Series to best-of-seven in a plan given to players during collective bargaining Thursday.
Owners also proposed adding nine additional days off to the... Read more
OTTAWA — A lot of Canadians turning to chatbots for election information don't always get accurate responses, a Parliamentary committee heard today.
McGill University academics have been tracking chatbot activity, including during the recent Quebec election.
Aengus Bridgman, a McGill political... Read more
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney indicated Thursday the federal government will look at the advice of an arm's-length panel studying firearms classification before making any decision on the status of the SKS rifle.
An FBI complaint filed in a Washington state court says the killer in the... Read more
OTTAWA — Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali says he's unaware of the presence of pests in federal office buildings.
Responses to an order paper question revealed last month that dozens of federal buildings have reported the presence of pests such as mice, rats, bats and bedbugs since 2020.... Read more
OTTAWA — Cold Lake First Nations filed an application today for judicial review in Federal Court, challenging Ottawa's decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline as a project in the national interest.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced last week the... Read more
VANCOUVER — Author and former University of British Columbia professor Steven Galloway says people who signed a letter criticizing the university’s handling of a misconduct case against him were subjected to “extremely hurtful” comments, and suffered socially and professionally.
Galloway is being... Read more
OTTAWA — Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon is promising to keep a lid on fees charged by airports under the government’s partial privatization plan, as airline executives insist the rules must be in place before investors make their bids.
However, it remains unclear if the new plan will include... Read more
REVELSTOKE — Three horses being transported to an Equestrian Canada event in Langley, B.C., have been killed in a crash on Highway 1 in the British Columbia Interior.
Equestrian Canada says in a statement that four horses were being towed to the National Dressage and Para Dressage Championships.... Read more
It was a relatively short court appearance Thursday morning for Kelly Knopf, the man charged in the highway crash that... Read more
After being paused in early-August, the cleanup of an encampment at 20th Street and Avenue K South in Saskatoon resumed Thursday morning, according to the city.
SHERBROOKE — Prime Minister Mark Carney says the future of the country will be decided by Canadians — not by large U.S. tech firms.
His comments come a day after tech industrialist Elon Musk argued on social media that Quebec would be “better off” separating from Canada, and that... Read more
MONTREAL — Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says the city is planning to provide 3,000 beds in emergency shelters to address homelessness this winter.
The mayor says homelessness is the biggest humanitarian crisis the city is facing.
The new beds are needed, the mayor says, noting that many... Read more
Saskatchewan MLAs are opening up their books to share their expenses from the last fiscal year on everything from phone bills to travel.
Three people are facing fraud charges after an investigation by the Regina Police Service and SGI determined that a collision had allegedly been staged.
According to police, officers were called to the scene of a crash at the intersection of Ninth Avenue North and Pinkie Road at about 9 p.m. on Jan... Read more
Kelly Knopf, a 40-year-old South Carolina resident, appeared in Yorkton court via phone Thursday – almost a week after the fatal crash near Foam Lake, Sask.
The trillionaire tech businessman and former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump said on X that Quebec would benefit from independence, as would Alberta and Saskatchewan.
OTTAWA — Newly released passages of a landmark 1986 study say at least 35 people with apparently suspect backgrounds came to Canada after the Second World War through a covert program set up by U.S. intelligence agencies.
The previously secret details appear in a recently released version of a... Read more
Saskatchewan’s harvest is close to complete as farmers race against the changing seasons to get the last of the 2026 crop into the bin.
According to the latest crop report from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, which covered the week ending on Monday, harvest is 82 per cent complete across... Read more
Work to dismantle the homeless encampment on 20th Street and Avenue K South in Saskatoon began on Thursday morning.
According to the City of Saskatoon, the removal is a co-ordinated effort by “several community-based, Indigenous and provincial government organizations.”
Read more:... Read more
An interprovincial investigation involving several Saskatchewan police agencies has led to the arrest of two people in connection with an Ontario murder case.
According to the Regina Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police contacted the local agency and the Saskatchewan RCMP in late September... Read more
CALGARY — A new report from the Calgary Chamber of Commerce says Alberta's economic prospects hinge on its ability to attract newcomers into the workforce.
The group released the survey less than two weeks before Albertans vote on 10 referendum questions, half of which deal with immigration.... Read more
EDMONTON — A prominent Alberta separatist has shared an online claim that the provincial NDP used its access to the province's voter list to request hundreds of thousands mail-in ballots for this month's referendum. The claim includes an edited video of NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi talking about the... Read more
OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada says the number of arrest and detention cases involving Canadians citizens has jumped 60 per cent.
The department's annual report on consular cases, published today, tracks an increase in arrests between April 2025 and March 2026, despite a 25 per cent decline in... Read more