Category Archives: News
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for September, by Canadian city
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent in September. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions,...
Oct 10, 2025
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for September, by province
OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent in September. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador...
Oct 10, 2025
National employment numbers for September from Statistics Canada, at a glance
OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's September employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 7.1 per cent (7.1) Employment rate: 60.6 per cent (60.5) Participation ...
Oct 10, 2025
Opinion: Agriculture has always been economic driver
YORKTON - When one looks at the modern machinery of a Canadian Prairie harvest it seems almost like something out of a Robert A. Heinlein, or Isaac Asimov novel I might have read as a youth in the lat...
Oct 10, 2025
Yorkton Chamber hosts leadership expert Jennifer Barroll at annual business dinner
YORKTON - Business leaders, entrepreneurs and community members gathered in Yorkton for an evening of inspiration and connection as the Chamber of Commerce hosted its 26th annual Business Dinner, feat...
Oct 09, 2025 2025 Yorkton Business Dinner (Photo: Tanner Wallace-Scribner)
Sask. NDP renews push for rent control as province defends housing strategy
REGINA - As average rent prices fall across much of Canada, Saskatchewan once again saw an increase which has sparked calls from the provincial NDP for rent control. A new report from Rentals.ca shows...
Oct 09, 2025 A rental sign is seen outside a building in Ottawa, Thursday, April 30, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
RCMP investigating suspicious death in Yorkton
YORKTON - RCMP have launched an investigation after a man was found dead outside a home in Yorkton. Police say officers were called to a residence on Victoria Avenue around 3:10 p.m. on Oct. 7, where ...
Oct 08, 2025 A File photo of an RCMP Cruiser. (Harvard Media News)
Youth arrested after firearm threat at Ebb and Flow First Nation school
STE. ROSE DU LAC - A 15-year-old is facing multiple charges after allegedly pointing a firearm at a student outside a school in Ebb and Flow First Nation. Ste. Rose du Lac RCMP were called around 11 a...
Oct 08, 2025 A photo of the firearm police believed was used. (Photo: Manitoba RCMP)
RCMP investigating serious assault in Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation
WUSKWI SIPIHK FIRST NATION - Manitoba RCMP Major Crime Services has launched an investigation after a man was found seriously injured following an assault in Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation earlier this mo...
Oct 08, 2025
Dauphin RCMP arrest man following road rage incident involving knife
DAUPHIN - Dauphin RCMP have arrested a man after a road rage incident early Wednesday morning. Mounties say the incident began shortly after 12:45 a.m. on October 8 when officers received a report of ...
Oct 08, 2025
