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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Liberals trimming small-business tax rate to stanch political bleeding
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government says it will lower the small business tax rate to 10 per cent in January and to nine per cent in 2019, the start of a week-long effort to stanch the bleeding fr...
Oct 16, 2017
Nipawin farmer describes talk with federal finance minister
It's not every day a Saskatchewan farmer gets a call directly from the federal finance minister in response to a tweet, but that's what happened to Terry Youzwa this week. Youzwa, who farms outside Ni...
Sep 21, 2017 Terry Youzwa's view from his tractor during harvest from a tweet he sent directed at the prime minister and finance minister about tax changes. (Terry Youzwa/Twitter)
Director James Cameron opens pea processing plant in Sask.
It's a Titanic investment for Saskatchewan agriculture. Oscar-winning film director James Cameron and wife Suzy were in Vanscoy Monday to announce the formation of Verdient Foods Inc. Verdient's new p...
Sep 18, 2017 Film director James Cameron and wife Suzy Amis Cameron at the launch of Verdient Foods Inc. in Vanscoy on Sept. 18, 2017. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
‘The gov’t doesn’t care:’ Sask. farmer on tax reform
Jake Leguee's family has farmed between Fillmore and Weyburn for generations. But it could be harder for him to pass the land on to his own kids once the federal government reforms small business taxe...
Sep 07, 2017 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a visit to Gray, Sask., on April 27, 2017. (Lauren Golosky/980 CJME)
Brad Wall continues beef with A&W's hamburgers
Premier Brad Wall and restaurant chain A&W continue to beef over what is in their hamburgers. In August, Wall called out the fast food restaurant on Twitter for not exclusively using Canadian beef...
Sep 06, 2017
Dry weather leads to a poorer than expected Sask. crop
Farmer's in the province, especially in the southern parts, have faced some of the driest conditions ever in July. There was a lack of rain in many parts of the province, with Regina only getting 1.8 ...
Aug 03, 2017 Saskatchewan producers harvest at sunset. (Darren Sproat/Instagram)
'Almost too late' for rain for crops in dry southern Sask.
July is on the verge of setting a new record for dryness - and it's showing on farmers' fields. The Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan (APAS) said many crops are suffering due to hot weather and a...
Jul 28, 2017
Regina Farmers' Market vendors dealing with dry summer
The heat has been sticking around in Saskatchewan, meaning producers are finding other ways to keep their plants hydrated. July has been extremely dry in and around Regina, with virtually no rain thro...
Jul 27, 2017 Spring Creek Garden is one of the vendors at Regina Farmer's Market who are dealing with the dry conditions on July 26, 2017. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Crops advance but yield down in hot, dry south Sask.
Another week, another forecast of hot, dry weather for southern Saskatchewan. This comes as bad news for many farmers in the area who are in desperate need of rain. Rain and storms were forecasted las...
Jul 24, 2017
Crops decline as south Sask. sees little rain in July
If it feels like the Regina area hasn't seen any rain this month, that's because it practically hasn't According to Environment Canada, the Regina airport weather station has only recorded 0.2 millime...
Jul 20, 2017
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