Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News

Statistics Canada set to release December jobs data
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to release labour force figures for December this morning. A Reuters survey of economists expects Canada lost 5,000 jobs last month, driving the unemployment rate up ...
Canadian Press Jan 09, 2026

Protesters, ICE face off with tensions high in Minneapolis after fatal shooting
MINNEAPOLIS - Protesters in Minneapolis shouted during a tense standoff with masked federal agents Thursday as public anger over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026

Carney to travel to Qatar next week alongside trips to China, Switzerland
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Doha, Qatar on Jan. 18 for a bilateral visit as he seeks to broaden trade relations and drum up foreign investment. It's part of a broader diplomatic...
Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026

What Trump's aspiration to conquer Greenland means for Canada
OTTAWA - Canada's closest physical neighbours are in an escalating dispute that risks breaking the military alliance that has protected the nations of the North Atlantic for decades. U.S. President Do...
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026

Kashechewan First Nation evacuation plans will prioritize 500 vulnerable people: feds
Indigenous Services Canada says the evacuation of 500 vulnerable people from a remote First Nation in northern Ontario will happen "as early as possible," as the community deals with failures in its w...
Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026

Protesters, ICE face off as tensions simmer in Minneapolis after fatal shooting
MINNEAPOLIS - Protesters in Minneapolis shouted during a tense standoff with masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers Thursday as public anger over the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE a...
Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026

Fisheries Department grants authorization for port expansion in Contrecoeur, Que.
MONTRAL - Fisheries and Oceans Canada has granted authorization to the Montreal Port Authority to expand a container port terminal northeast of the city in the habitat of an endangered fish species. T...
Stéphane Blais, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026

Conservative MP accuses students of free speech attack after campus event cancelled
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Garnett Genuis accused a student group at York University of attacking free speech after he was denied permission to hold an event there - but the university's student centre ...
Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026

Protesters, ICE faceoff as tensions simmer in Minneapolis after fatal shooting
MINNEAPOLIS - Protesters shouted during a tense standoff with masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as anger from Minneapolis residents simmers following the fatal shooting of a woman on...
Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026

New charges against man with al-Qaida ties as lawyer raises mental health concerns
MONTREAL - A homeless man who had attended al-Qaida training camps and is charged with allegedly threatening to bomb public transit in Montreal is now also accused of issuing a threat from jail to blo...
Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press Jan 08, 2026










