Tag Archives: Business & Economy
Downtown businesses ready for Santa Claus parade
The downtown is ready for the annual Santa Claus parade. The parade is set to get underway this Saturday at 11 a.m. The event, which is organized by the Prince Albert Downtown Business Improvement Dis...
Nov 29, 2019 Last year's Santa Claus parade saw a good number of people turnout. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Teamsters say they have reached a tentative deal with CN, work set to resume
MONTREAL - Teamsters Canada says it has reached a tentative agreement with Canadian National Railway Co. to renew the collective agreement for over 3,000 conductors, trainpersons and yard workers. The...
Nov 26, 2019
What's the future for P.A. Quality Inn?
The Prince Albert YWCA wants community groups to come together to discuss the best future use of the closed-down Quality Inn hotel in the downtown, if it becomes a city asset. With the city set to tak...
Nov 25, 2019 What might the closed-down Quality Inn become if the city takes it over? (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
Local man says he found insects in son's formula
A Prince Albert man says he got an unwelcome surprise earlier this month when his wife opened a can of powdered baby formula to feed their one-year-old son."When she opened the seal, there were two bl...
Nov 25, 2019 A Prince Albert man says his wife found these two small bugs in a can of President's Choice powdered baby formula. (submitted photo/Motasem Zidan)
Feds won't explain claim pipeline expansion will raise $500M in tax revenue
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau will not explain how his department estimated that finishing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will bring another $500 million in corporate tax revenue into ...
Nov 25, 2019
Hamlet of Elk Ridge seeks Resort Village status
Elk Ridge resort is widely known as a great tourist destination, but in recent years more people are choosing to stay and live in the area. As a result of that growth, a process has been rolling out f...
Nov 22, 2019 A photo taken at Elk Ridge in the fall of 2019. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
Hoback calls Freeland a friend but doubts Ottawa-Western Canadian detente
The MP for Prince Albert, Conservative Randy Hoback, considers the new deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs as a friend. However, he's not convinced Chrystia Freeland's new ...
Nov 21, 2019 MP for Prince Albert Randy Hoback during the recent election campaign. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
PAEX annual general meeting deals with a range of business
Members of the Prince Albert Exhibition Association got to see the organization's books Wednesday night at their annual general meeting.For the fiscal year of 2019 the organization is reporting a loss...
Nov 21, 2019 The Prince Albert Exhibition put on their annual general meeting Thursday night. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Parkland Ambulance celebrates milestone anniversary
It has been 45 years since Parkland Ambulance Care started serving Prince Albert and the surrounding area.The service began November 21 of 1974 by Barry and Wayne Dutchak. Parkland had a simple beginn...
Nov 21, 2019 Lyle Karasiuk shows the differences between an old and new defibrillator. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Local Tims hits the screen
The key intersection at Second Ave.W. and 15th St.W. in Prince Albert is set to get a whole lot of screen time, and no, we're not talking about the city's forthcoming digital billboard. A corner of P....
Nov 19, 2019 One of P.A.'s Tim Hortons restaurants is featured in a new TV ad campaign. (Tim Hortons)
