Author Archives: Syndicated Content

China purchases American soybeans: sources
Two trade sources say China’s state-owned COFCO bought three U.S. soybean cargoes, the country’s first purchases from this year’s U.S. harvest, shortly before a summit of leaders Don...
Doug Falconer Oct 29, 2025

Closing grain prices Wednesday, October 29
Durum: 282.27 Feed Barley: 203.59 Canola:  ...
Ryan Young Oct 29, 2025

Drug crimes up for first time in 12 years, bucking long-term national trend: StatCan
Statistics Canada says the rate of police-reported drug crime is up for the first time in 12 years but remains well below a "historic peak" recorded in 2011, with cannabis legalization being a major f...
Canadian Press Oct 29, 2025

Melissa partly to blame for wet, windy Halloween in the Maritimes and eastern Quebec
HALIFAX - Residents of the Maritimes and eastern Quebec can expect strong gusts and heavy rain on Friday, but a senior meteorologist says Hurricane Melissa is only partly to blame. The latest forecast...
Canadian Press Oct 29, 2025

Federal officials are not sure when immigration levels plan is coming
OTTAWA - Immigration department officials do not know if Prime Minister Mark Carney's promise to include Canada's new immigration plan in the federal budget next week will be the full scope of the ann...
David Baxter, The Canadian Press Oct 29, 2025

'Call 1-800-Doug-Ford': Ontario, N.B. courting Quebec doctors unhappy with pay law
MONTREAL - Ontario and New Brunswick are openly courting Quebec doctors upset over a recent provincial law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians. While Premier Franois Legault critic...
Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press Oct 29, 2025

Red shirts and red-rimmed eyes: 740,000 Alberta students back to classes post-strike
There were red shirts, red-rimmed eyes - and a lot of questions - as more than 740,000 students returned to classes in Alberta on Wednesday after a provincewide teachers strike. In Calgary, about two ...
Fakiha Baig and Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press Oct 29, 2025

Bank of Canada governor says AI could be both good and bad for Canada's economy
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada says it doesn't know how new artificial intelligence products will affect the Canadian economy. Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says the technology has the potential f...
Justin Escoto, The Canadian Press Oct 29, 2025

Merasty's public speaking visit to Yorkton postponed
YORKTON — A visit to Yorkton by Saskatchewan men’s health advocate Christopher Merasty has been postponed. Merasty was scheduled to be at the Gallagher Centre's west meeting room Oct. ...
SaskToday staff Oct 29, 2025

Federal officials not sure when immigration levels plan is coming
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said in his pre-budget speech last week that the upcoming federal budget will include "Canada's new immigration plan," but immigration department officials don't kn...
David Baxter, The Canadian Press Oct 29, 2025












