Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Rail competition pilot may not be renewed amid parliamentary break
MONTREAL - An obscure but hard-fought - and hard-lobbied - battle over railway competition has steamed back to the surface. A pilot project mandating so-called extended interswitching that aims to giv...
Jan 20, 2025
Viterra-Bunge merger means less money for Sask. farmers: Grain Growers
A major agricultural association wants the government to rethink its approval of the Viterra-Bunge merger. The federal government gave the move the green light earlier this week, but Kyle Larkin, exec...
Jan 16, 2025 Kyle Larkin with the Grain Growers of Canada said he’s extremely disappointed with the final decision from the Federal Government and is urging Ottawa to reconsider. (980 CJME file photo)
As fruit buds swell, B.C. farmers hit by 2024 deep freeze hope for better harvest
Peter Simonsen says buds on the peach trees at his farm in Naramata, B.C., are already starting to swell early. But that makes him nervous. "They seem healthy and good, but I'm a little worried, becau...
Jan 15, 2025
Exhibitors excited as Western Canadian Crop Production Show begins
The Western Canadian Crop Production Show will welcome thousands to Saskatoon's Prairieland Park over the next three days. Leigh Ann Hurlburt, the park's agriculture manager, said it will be a very bu...
Jan 14, 2025
Western Canadian Crop Production Show opens Tuesday in Saskatoon
The Western Canadian Crop Production Show is set to get underway in Saskatoon on Tuesday. The show, which runs until Thursday at Prairieland Park, will give farmers and industry workers the opportunit...
Jan 13, 2025
2024 a year of challenges and triumphs for Saskatchewan farmers
Farmers are looking back at 2024 in Saskatchewan as a year that had both challenges and triumphs. When it comes to the weather that agriculture producers experienced, Shaun Haney, the founder and CEO ...
Jan 04, 2025 Shaun Haney said Canadian farmers are optimistic about raising efficiency and productivity for 2025.(Nicole Garn/980 CJME)
Sask. Appeal Court upholds thumbs-up emoji verdict in grain contract dispute
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. - Saskatchewan's highest court has given a thumbs-down to an appeal in a legal case involving the use of an emoji. The Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan has upheld a verdict that fo...
Dec 20, 2024 In March 2021, the grain buyer with South West Terminal sent a text of the contract to the farmer for a delivery of flax, and the farmer responded with a thumbs-up emoji but no accompanying text. (The Canadian Press)
How U.S. tariffs could affect Canada's agriculture industry, consumer prices
As Donald Trump's inauguration looms, Canada's agriculture industry is waiting with bated breath to see whether the sweeping tariffs he's threatened will come to pass. If they do, producers would have...
Dec 10, 2024
Alberta releases new rules and no-go zones on wind and solar projects
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has confirmed new rules for wind and solar energy projects it says are needed to protect the environment, food security and the province's scenery. The new regulation...
Dec 06, 2024
Saskatchewan mid-year financial update projects $743M deficit, more than twice budget
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Party government is projecting a deficit that's more than double what it predicted in its budget, largely due to higher crop insurance payouts following a difficult farming s...
Nov 28, 2024
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