Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News

RCMP say $56-million cryptocurrency seizure is biggest in Canadian history
MONTREAL - The RCMP say their seizure of $56 million worth of cryptocurrency from an online platform is the largest in Canadian history. The national police force says the exchange platform - TradeOgr...
Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Canada Post sending new offers to union with aim to move talks forward
OTTAWA - Canada Post says it will be sending new offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in an effort to move negotiations forward. The Crown corporation says the new terms will allow the two s...
Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Return on fall budget investments will help drive down deficit: Champagne
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says the returns from Ottawa's capital spending plans in the upcoming fall budget will help to pay down the deficit in later years. He told The Can...
Craig Lord, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Conservatives table bill to make murdering an intimate partner a first-degree crime
OTTAWA - The Conservatives have introduced a private members' bill in the House of Commons that would make the murder of an intimate partner a first-degree crime. Conservative public safety critic Fra...
Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Republican alleges FBI has names of Epstein clients, including 'billionaire' Canadian
WASHINGTON - A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday alleged the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has the names of some of the late Jeffrey Epstein's clients, including a "billionaire from Canada." Rep...
Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Quebec to stop offering COVID vaccine for free to most people, shots cost up to $180
Vaccines against COVID-19 will no longer be free of charge to the general population in Quebec starting this fall. The province's Health Department confirmed the new policy in an email today. Only cer...
Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Quebec politician to close Facebook page, unable to filter hate-filled posts
MONTREAL - A member of Quebec's legislature says she's taking down her professional Facebook page because she's unable to filter the hateful comments it regularly attracts. Christine Labrie of leftist...
Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Nova Scotia's Donald Oliver, first Black man named to Senate, dies at 86
HALIFAX - Donald Oliver, the first Black man appointed to the Senate of Canada, has died at the age of 86. Oliver's family in Nova Scotia confirmed the retired senator died Wednesday from a chronic he...
Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Think tank calls on Ottawa to abandon single-payer pharmacare model
OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...
Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Canada's 2030 emissions target is out of reach after progress stalled in 2024: report
OTTAWA - Canada's short-term targets for reducing its emissions are now out of reach after emission levels remained unchanged last year, and recent federal policies have set back Canada's progress, Ca...
Nick Murray, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025












