Murray Wood: Sask. farmers pay the price for Ottawa's gopher ban
Gophers are chewing through crops and profits, and farmers blame Ottawa's strychnine ban. They say the damage is out of ...
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'It's brutal:' employer frustrated with SaskJobs site update
Since the SaskJobs website was recently taken over by the federal government, a Saskatchewan employer says it has changed from being user-friendly to confusing. David Powell, who helps manage The Ice ...
May 09, 2018 SaskJobs.ca has now been integrated into the national job bank, but the changes have raised some concerns May 9, 2018, (Screengrab/Department of Employment and Social Development Canada)
Annual maintenance and repairs underway at Co-op Refinery
There is more than a spring clean going on at the Co-op Refinery Complex over the next few weeks as the annual turnaround maintenance gets underway. This is when the refinery's equipment is taken off ...
Apr 05, 2018 (980 CJME file photo)
First Sask. H&M to open at Regina's Cornwall Centre in March
Saskatchewan's first H&M store now has an opening date. The clothing store, located in Regina's Cornwall Centre, will open at 11 a.m. on March 29. The first 500 people in line will receive an H&am...
Feb 27, 2018 Sign advertising grand opening of clothing store H&M at the Cornwall Centre in Regina Feb. 27, 2018. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
‘Unstoppable’ labour market adds jobs for 12th month, drops jobless rate to 5.9%
OTTAWA - A wave of job creation last month knocked the unemployment rate down to 5.9 per cent - its lowest level in nearly a decade. The economy churned out another 79,500 net new jobs in November and...
Dec 01, 2017
Brandt bringing new life to Saskatoon's shuttered Mitsubishi-Hitachi plant
A tentative deal has been reached that could save the former Mitsubishi-Hitachi facility in Saskatoon from being sold off. The Brandt Group of Companies announced a deal Friday with US-based industria...
Mar 24, 2017
Sask. leading Canada in job growth: StatsCan
Saskatchewan is leading the way after Canada's job numbers received a boost last month. Statistics Canada's latest labour survey reported 563,600 people were employed in the province - an incre...
Mar 13, 2017
Fewer real estate, construction jobs as Sask. loses 11,000 jobs in one year
There are 11,000 fewer jobs in Saskatchewan since last year - and most of those are in the real estate and construction industries. That's according to the latest numbers from Stats Canada, which comp...
Nov 04, 2016
Sask. minimum wage hikes up 22 cents
Minimum wage earners in the province received a boost of 22 cents more an hour this weekend. On Oct. 1, the hourly wage went up for workers to $10.72 from $10.50. While most workers who spoke with 650...
Oct 01, 2016
Saskatchewan unemployment numbers continue to rise
The number of people collecting employment insurance (EI) in Saskatchewan has increased by 37 per cent compared to last year. The latest numbers released by Statistics Canada show that the number of p...
Feb 19, 2016
Saskatchewan unemployment numbers continue to rise
The number of people collecting employment insurance (EI) in Saskatchewan has increased by 37 per cent compared to last year. The latest numbers released by Statistics Canada show that the number of p...
Feb 19, 2016
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