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From lake to plate: Sask. Polytechnic bringing innovation to tired industry
Wild rice is an important economic crop for First Nations and Métis people across Western Canada. The industry is particularly significant in Northern Saskatchewan, where approximately 70 per cent of the Canadian crop originates. Considered a sacred grain to Indigenous Peoples for centuries, it was first introdu...
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Drug trafficking
Saskatchewan to test out technology that detects drones smuggling drugs into prisons
REGINA - Saskatchewan is taking aim at reducing the rise in drugs and weapons being dropped by drones into prison yards - sometimes right to an inmate's cell window."It's literally almost like Uber Eats," Jake Suelzle, who represents prison guards on the Prairies, said in an interview.He said the buzzing skyb...
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Councillors quit
Tensions flare as RM of Sherwood moves ahead with data centre agreement
A data centre project in the Rural Municipality of Sherwood is moving forward, following a raucous council meeting which saw people ejected from the gallery, protesters banging on windows and most of the public locked out during the discussion.Construction on the 300-megawatt Bell Canada AI data centre project just out...
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Must watch
Season 4 of docuseries focuses on wildfires in La Ronge area
Season Four of the acclaimed docuseries Guardians of the North launches Tuesday night and over the course of six episodes will focus on wildfires in the La Ronge area.The series, which represents a partnership between the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) and Wavelength Entertainment, can be followed on CityTV S...
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cost of living
High fuel prices driving up shipping costs for northern grocers
Whether it's Florida oranges, Colombian coffee or even homegrown items from another province, food has often travelled a long way before it reaches grocery stores in Canada.The supply chain gets even longer for communities in the Far North. Typically, groceries are loaded onto a truck and taken to a launch point in cit...
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Financial ties
Carney names members of new advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations
Prime Minister Mark Carney retooled an advisory committee on Canada-U.S. trade on Tuesday, adding a former Conservative leader and the former high commissioner to the United Kingdom to the team.The committee revives the Council on Canada-U.S. Relations established by former prime minister Justin Trudeau in January 2025...
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Canada

In the news today: Mexico pyramid shooting, Canada-U.S. trade, Tips on buying a car
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... B.C. tourists smile at Mexico pyramid. Behind them, a gunman, moments before killing A haunting photo of B.C. woman Barbara Welsh and her friends shows the moment ...
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'The day the music dies': Organists pipe up to save historical instrument
EDMONTON - Music from a pipe organ has filled a convocation hall at the University of Alberta for a century, but that may soon come to an end as the institution begins renovations that include removing the memorial instrument. Marnie Giesbrecht, profe...
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B.C. tourists smile at Mexico pyramid. Behind them, a gunman, moments before killing
It looks like a typical tourist photo, as British Columbia woman Barbara Welsh and her friends smile near the foot of the famous Pyramid of the Moon at the Teotihuacan site northeast of Mexico City on Monday. But in the background, clambering the pyram...
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Expert says it's time for Canada to amp up efforts to educate Americans on trade
HOUSTON - Piling his shopping bags into his vehicle's trunk outside a Houston grocery store last week, Texan Herman Moreno said he doesn't think Canada has any kind of trading relationship with Texas at all. "Canada better straighten up, bro," he said....
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How 're-wilding' can make Canada's cityscapes more climate resilient and bee friendly
TORONTO - The laneway beside Adam Barnes's house is, at first blush, unremarkable within Toronto's catalogue of backstreets: there are garages, a graffiti-tagged brick wall and a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. The curb used to be dominated...
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MPs approve Annette Ryan as the next Parliamentary Budget Officer in House vote
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament voted Tuesday to approve the appointment of Annette Ryan as Canada's next Parliamentary Budget Officer. MPs approved her appointment in a 164 to 153 vote, with Bloc Québécois and Conservatives voting against her nominatio...
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