Tag Archives: Business & Economy

It's official, the best the Battlefords has to offer have been announced. Finalists for the Battlefords Business Excellence Committee (BBEX) Awards have been named and will celebrate the 30th year of ...

A child care provider from the Battlefords is hoping a government incentive to provide tuition-free early childhood educator (ECE) training will help alleviate a shortage of workers and daycare spaces...

Tourism Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Distance Learning Centre (Sask DLC) have reached a new agreement to support Grade 10-12 students learning about the province's tourism industry through online...

A Prince Albert man was recently recognized by the Business Elite Awards, an international organization, as one of Canada's 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs. Paul Langlois, born and raised in Prince Albert, ...

A group of local business owners sat around a table at the local A&W restaurant recently pondering the question: How does the city grow? They were brought together by the North Battleford Economic...

A new design focused on accessibility was unveiled in Prince Albert's Yard District Monday which will become a model for changes to SaskTel's retail stores over time. The Crown corporation jumped on t...

Railway workers, their union and their employers are all waiting today for a decision from the Canada Industrial Relations Board that will determine what's next for the labour dispute that ground trai...

The lockout of over 9,000 railway workers only lasted a day before being forced to binding arbitration. For local farmers like Heath Gabruch, it's a relief. "It's good that they did decide to do that,...

The federal government is intervening in a countrywide work stoppage at Canada's two biggest railways, but railworkers are pushing back against Ottawa's move to get them back on the job. In the culmin...

Canada's two largest railroads will roll their trains again after the government intervened to end a shutdown that arose from a labor dispute. After Canadian National and CPKC failed to reach new agre...