Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News

These Ukrainians want to thrive in Canada. For most of them, the future is uncertain
TORONTO - After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, nearly 300,000 Ukrainians were welcomed in communities across Canada as part of an emergency visa program that allowed those flee...
Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press Apr 03, 2026

New secularism law is looming over Way of the Cross marches on Good Friday in Quebec
MONTREAL - Christians across Quebec are about to face a new legal landscape on Good Friday, only a day after the provincial legislature adopted a law that could crack down on their annual Way of the C...
Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press Apr 03, 2026

'Absolute betrayal': First Nations blast Eby in leaked transcript of DRIPA meeting
A leaked transcript of a meeting between Indigenous leaders and British Columbia Premier David Eby, about his plan to suspend the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRI...
Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press Apr 03, 2026

Does your single friend excel? Try a PowerPoint dating pitch
VANCOUVER - Harjot Rai had three minutes to make his PowerPoint pitch. The subject? His cringing friend, Matt White. And the audience was a far cry from executives in a corporate boardroom. Instead, i...
Nono Shen, The Canadian Press Apr 03, 2026

Canada's Jeremy Hansen rockets toward the moon with Artemis II after engine burn
CAPE CANAVERAL - Canadian Jeremy Hansen is headed toward the moon as part of the Artemis II lunar mission after a nearly six-minute engine burn to bust out of orbit Thursday evening. Hansen, serving a...
Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press Apr 02, 2026

Eby faces 'complete opposition' after proposing suspension of DRIPA sections
British Columbia Premier David Eby says he will stake his government on suspending sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act for up to three years, calling it the "least inva...
Wolfgang Depner and Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press Apr 02, 2026

Vancouver police used Pokémon card sting. It was super effective!
VANCOUVER - Up until someone started using bear spray on unsuspecting victims trying to sell their Pokmon trading cards online, Vancouver police say they weren't aware of the resurgent collectible tre...
Nono Shen, The Canadian Press Apr 02, 2026

B.C. faces 'complete opposition' after telling First Nations of plan to suspend DRIPA
British Columbia's government has proposed suspending its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, according to two sources in a meeting between Premier David Eby and First Nations leaders...
Wolfgang Depner and Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press Apr 02, 2026

B.C. Appeals Court sides with First Nation over Aboriginal title on Nootka Island
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an "arbitrary boundary" to determine a First Nation's Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Isla...
Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press Apr 02, 2026

Tory MP echoes calls for Carney to apologize to Grassy Narrows over protest remarks
OTTAWA - The Conservative critic for Indigenous Services is adding his voice to calls for Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize to Grassy Narrows First Nation after he said he could "outlast" a prot...
Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press Apr 02, 2026










