Category Archives: Saskatchewan
Thirteen SaskEnergy employees fired due to ‘internal fuel theft’: Report
Thirteen SaskEnergy employees were terminated after an investigation into fuel thefts.According to a loss report tabled on Monday by Crown Investments Corporation, the thefts were centred primarily in...
Feb 02, 2026 According to the report, SaskEnergy’s internal audit department is conducting a review, and the company has also informed its external auditor. (Image Credit: Roman Hayter/650 CKOM)
New outdoor rink opens with community shinny in Lloydminster
The Kings Energy Group Outdoor Rink at the Cenovus Energy Hub officially opened over the weekend, welcoming local youth onto the ice for the first time with a friendly game of shinny. Players from the...
Feb 02, 2026 Players take part in a game of shinny on the ice at the Kings Energy Group Outdoor Rink at the Cenovus Energy Hub in Lloydminster on Jan. 31, 2026. (Image Credit: City of Lloydminster)
Meet the P.A. billet mom who helped raise generations of hockey players
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK. - Carole Ring has 40 sons.She brought two of them into the world herself. As for the other 38? The hockey world brought them to her.Over nearly five decades in Prince Albert, Ring...
Feb 02, 2026 Over the course of five decades, Carole Ring became a second mother to dozens of hockey players, including many who would go on to become NHL stars. Leon Draisaitl lived with Ring from 2012 to 2014. (Image Credit: submitted)
Ottawa's plan for GST relief set to cost $12.4 billion over 5 years, PBO says
The government's budget watchdog said Monday it expects the federal government's plan to increase the GST credit and offer a one-time payment to Canadians will cost Ottawa an estimated $12.4 billion o...
Feb 02, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney attends a media event at a grocery store in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Kicker Brett Lauther released by Sask. Roughriders after eight seasons
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are parting ways with kicker Brett Lauther.The team announced on Monday that Lauther has been released after eight seasons, which saw him appear in 114 regular-season game...
Feb 02, 2026 Lauther has been a member of the CFL club for the past eight seasons, appearing in 114 regular-season games and eight playoff games. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Groundhog Day 2026: Willie in Ontario, Fred in Quebec predict early spring’s arrival
HALIFAX - Canada's famous prognosticating rodents are predicting an early spring.Wiarton Willie, in Bruce County, Ont., and Fred la Marmotte, the famous groundhog in Quebec's Gaspsie region reportedly...
Feb 02, 2026 (Image Credit: The Canadian Press)
Ottawa wants to get banks, pension funds involved in affordable housing: minister
OTTAWA - The federal housing minister says he wants to ramp up the lagging pace of homebuilding in some provinces by bringing developers off the sidelines and into Ottawa's affordable housing projects...
Feb 01, 2026 Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Gregor Robertson has held the position since May 13, 2025. (Image Credit: The Canadian Press)
Sask. environment ministry working to preserve migration corridors for pronghorns
Saskatchewan's environment ministry is working alongside the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration to protect the province's pronghorn population by reducing threats to their seasonal migration.The ...
Feb 01, 2026 “Our province is blessed to be part of the pronghorn's Canadian range,” Darlene Rowden, Saskatchewan’s environment minister, said in a statement. (Image Credit: AP Photo/LM Otero)
Running back A.J. Ouellette will return to Roughriders for 2026 season
The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced on Sunday they re-signed American running back A.J. Ouellette to a one-year contract extension.One of the team's top performers on offence in 2025 had remained w...
Feb 01, 2026 Running back A.J. Ouellette was signed to a one-year contract on Feb. 1, the day of the free agency window opening. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Arts community responds to passing of respected artist
A woman whose artwork was inspired by the people and places she visited in northern Saskatchewan has passed away.Kathie Bird was 67. According to a statement from her family, she was surrounded by lov...
Feb 01, 2026 A photo of Kathie Bird from the opening of one of her many exhibitions. (Image Credit: File photo/ paNOW)