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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White House to maintain travel restrictions as Delta ravages unvaccinated Americans
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden didn't mince words Monday when asked whether his administration will be able to convince more holdout Americans to change their minds about getting the COVID-19 v...
Jul 26, 2021
Symmetry not guaranteed on border policy: envoy
WASHINGTON - Just because Canada and the United States worked closely together to restrict travel across their shared border doesn't mean they were always going to move in lockstep when the time came ...
Jul 23, 2021
North Portal relieved at border opening
When the news came out that the Canadian land border would be opening, even a crack, Kaylah Turner said she felt relief more than anything. Turner is the mayor of North Portal, the Saskatchewan villag...
Jul 21, 2021 Gateway Cities Golf Course's clubhouse is located on the American side of the border, but it's nine holes are on the Canadian side, leaving the course stuck in the middle of the closed border. (Submitted)
'Feels like a real airport:' YQR seeing business take off
Business is once again taking off at Regina's airport. "Domestic flights right now from WestJet and Air Canada are selling very well. In fact, our business is more than triple what it was less than 60...
Jul 21, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Despite Canada's easing, U.S. adds 30 days to travel restrictions at shared border
WASHINGTON - Canada's bilateral overtures to fully vaccinated American visitors went unrequited Wednesday as the Department of Homeland Security formally extended its travel restrictions at the Canada...
Jul 21, 2021
B.C. premier commits support for tourism industry reeling from wildfires, COVID-19
CASTLEGAR, B.C. - British Columbia's premier is vowing to continue supporting the tourism industry, which was hoping to begin its recovery from COVID-19 just as hundreds of wildfires ignited in the pr...
Jul 21, 2021
Regina airport looking for direct international access as border re-opens
On Monday, the federal government announced it would be opening the border to vaccinated Americans in three weeks, and about a month later for everyone else who's vaccinated. James Bogusz, head of the...
Jul 20, 2021 Regina Airport Authority CEO James Bogusz. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Challenges at southern border may be drag on efforts to reopen Canada-U.S. frontier
WASHINGTON - Canadians wondering why the United States doesn't appear to be rushing to ease travel restrictions at their shared border should cast a gaze further south, where the frontier with Mexico ...
Jul 20, 2021
Government expects foreign states' wariness of mix-and-max vaccination to 'evolve'
OTTAWA - Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is sounding a note of hope that Canadians who mixed and matched COVID-19 vaccines will not have a problem crossing borders in the months ahe...
Jul 20, 2021
Canadians say vaccination proof must be required of all travellers: poll
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians say proof of vaccination should be required of all essential and non-essential travellers. Fifty-eight per cent of respondents to an online survey ...
Jul 20, 2021
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