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With over half the pulses imported into India coming from Saskatchewan, Premier Scott Moe couldn’t understate the importance of the province’s relationship... Read more
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a Canada-India trade deal would be positive, especially if it eases tariffs on pulse crops that have hurt exports.
MONTREAL — An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population.
The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal reached the preliminary conclusion following a week of hearings in Montreal.
The panel says Canada had historically adopted a series... Read more
A stolen SUV fraudulently purchased in Saskatchewan was traced to Ghana, highlighting a broader trend of Canadian vehicles being shipped overseas.
MONTREAL — The lawyer for a homeless man who once attended al-Qaida training camps says his client has pleaded guilty in Montreal to threatening to bomb public transit.
Leonard Waxman says Mohamed Abdullah Warsame has also acknowledged having called a Passport Canada office from detention and... Read more
One of Regina’s extreme weather spaces, the Central Library, is closed for the weekend after its air conditioner stopped working.
Regina Public Libraries said in a social media post on Friday afternoon that the central branch was closed from 2 p.m. because staff had no way to control the... Read more
Standing at the kitchen window, Colleen Neufeld watched as the flames from what’s been called the Lobstick wildfire grow ever closer.
The sky looked like a typical prairie sunset, but it isn’t an orange glow from the sun.
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FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Opposition leader is calling on the Liberal government to put off the province's planned shift to a new virtual-health-care provider.
Glen Savoie, leader of the Progressive Conservatives, said Friday the government should reconsider the contract it signed with... Read more
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don’t have the documents to prove it.
The case was seen as the first major legal test of an election reform that has... Read more
ST. JOHN'S — The Newfoundland and Labrador government has dropped a lawsuit challenging the federal equalization program.
The province's former Liberal government filed the suit in 2024, claiming the program unfairly penalizes Newfoundland and Labrador.
However, the new Progressive Conservative... Read more
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney told Pope Leo XIV Canada wants to lead internationally on responsible AI.
The Prime Minister's Office says Carney talked to the pontiff today about artificial intelligence.
The PMO says they spoke about how AI must serve humanity, starting with protecting... Read more
MONTRÉAL — A group representing Quebec municipalities is calling on the next provincial government to boost funding for public transit agencies, which say they will need $20 billion by 2035 just to maintain their assets.
The chair of the Union des municipalités du Québec's large cities caucus says... Read more
A judge has found Regina physiotherapist Dipan Nareshbhai Chauhan guilty of sexually assaulting one of his patients.... Read more
Tourism Regina has a new idea to encourage people to visit the Queen City.
The organization is partnering with businesses and event organizers to launch a new promo card program. The card will work like a pre-paid credit card, to be used at participating Regina businesses. Tourism Regina will... Read more
VANCOUVER — The estimated cost of hosting World Cup matches in Vancouver has repeatedly increased and is now almost triple an initial estimate by the B.C. government. Here's how the increases have unfolded.
March 2022: The province estimates the total costs at approximately $240 to $260... Read more
REGINA — As Ottawa appears to inch closer to a trade deal with India, Premier Scott Moe says he hopes the agreement addresses punishing tariffs on pulse crops.
But Moe says if the deal doesn't remove the duties, it's something his province can work around.
Last year, India imposed a 30 per cent... Read more
SAINT-HYACINTHE — Bloc Québécois MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay has confirmed he'll resign his seat in the House of Commons to run for the Parti Québécois in the fall provincial election.
Savard-Tremblay says he'll sit as an Independent for the rest of the federal parliamentary session before... Read more
Canada Post says it lost $205 million before taxes in the first quarter of the year as the postal service moves forward with reforms meant to address its ongoing struggles.
The Crown corporation saw its revenue fall by $181 million or 14.3 per cent compared with the same three-month period in 2025... Read more
VICTORIA — Elections BC says it has found no evidence of deliberate violations in a Metro Vancouver riding that helped give the NDP government a one-seat majority after the 2024 provincial vote.
The agency says it is confident that "free, fair, and secure" voting took place in Surrey-Guildford, and... Read more
VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government says the cost of hosting World Cup matches in Vancouver has spiked again and could reach $729 million, with even the lowest projection now exceeding the highest estimate from last year.
But it says provincial net hosting costs could go down by more than $... Read more
A major fire broke out on Friday around noon in Saskatoon.
A blaze on Geary Crescent, in the city’s Hampton Village neighbourhood, spread to several other neighbouring homes and garages.
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OTTAWA — Canada Post says it lost $205 million before taxes in the first quarter of the year as the postal service moves forward with reforms meant to address its ongoing struggles.
The Crown corporation saw its revenue fall by $181 million or 14.3 per cent compared with the same three-month period... Read more
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says its framework setting limits on delays in criminal trials is flexible enough to accommodate increasingly complicated cases.
Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Friday the framework the court set out in 2016 in R. v. Jordan is adaptable enough to address the... Read more
EDMONTON — Elections Alberta says a massive hiring effort for the fall referendum on the province's place in Canada will get underway early next month.
The agency says 60,000 or more elections officers will be needed to hand count the votes, which provincial law dictates must be done within 48... Read more
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s policies are to blame for Canada entering recession territory.
Statistics Canada says the economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row to start the year, a benchmark some economists consider a technical... Read more
OTTAWA — Outgoing Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has launched a project to fund community-based mental health services in Northern and Indigenous communities.
The legacy project will be run with support from the Rideau Hall Foundation.
Simon, who launched a mental health learning and listening tour in 2024,... Read more
A man has been charged in connection with a police investigation into a “grandparent scam,” which began earlier this year.
Continued investigation, according to the... Read more
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney's policies are to blame for Canada entering recession territory.
Statistics Canada says the economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row to start the year, a benchmark some economists consider a technical... Read more
The Lobstick wildfire in the Nisbet Forest near Prince Albert continues to grow, having already charred more than 6,000 hectares, while local forestry operators warn of millions of dollars in potential economic losses.
The blaze, north of Duck Lake and southwest of MacDowall, prompted an evacuation... Read more
The Regina Red Sox will be back in action at Currie Field for their home opener on Saturday, as the defending Western Canadian Baseball League champs take on the Medicine Hat Mavericks.
The team is... Read more
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map Friday designed to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with just one of its two majority-Black House districts represented by Democrats.
Approval of the new House map came a month after the U.S.... Read more
MONTREAL — When Caroline Rivest broke her ankle a few years ago, a doctor prescribed her a powerful opioid for three months to help with the pain. She was hooked in no time.
After her prescription ran out, she turned to the black market to keep the withdrawal at bay.
“What struck me was that... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions Friday on President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files as she defended the... Read more
A fire in a home said to include four rental units on Central Avenue was put out on Thursday night by Saskatoon firefighters, who had trouble getting into the home because of clutter.
“Crews had a difficult time making entry due to the amount of contents in the home,” a release from the... Read more
A 21-year-old man is facing charges in a case that saw police track an allegedly stolen Land Rover from a seller in Saskatoon all the way to Ghana, in west Africa.
According to the Saskatoon Police Service, officers got a report about a fraud case back on Jan. 14. Police said a man from Alberta... Read more
BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue divers in Laos on Friday night safely evacuated the first of five local villagers who had been trapped in a cave for more than a week by floodwaters.
Lao and Thai rescue workers posted the news on social media, along with a video showing the first rescued villager with a lamp... Read more