Tag Archives: Business & Economy
UPDATE: Services restored to La Ronge internet, phone, cell services
UPDATE: Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, SaskTel reported that all services had been restored in La Ronge, Weyakwin, Brabant Lake, Cigar Lake, Collins Bay, English Bay, Far Indian Reserve, Grandmother's...
Aug 22, 2024
‘We don’t want to be here’: Sask. CPKC workers frustrated by rail lockout
Just hours after Canadian Pacific Kansas City locked them out of their workplaces, many rail workers were out on the picket lines early on Thursday morning in Saskatoon, pleading for the union and com...
Aug 22, 2024
Grocery prices, Sask. economy could take a big hit in a rail dispute
The looming strike and lockout of rail workers could spell trouble for consumers and Saskatchewan's economy.The Teamsters representing workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City have served a strike noti...
Aug 21, 2024
Mayor encourages letter campaign as cultural event centre funding efforts continue
Prince Albert's mayor is asking the public to engage in a letter-writing campaign as the city continues to lobby the federal government to fund a portion of the proposed convention and cultural event ...
Aug 20, 2024
Prince Albert starting to feel the development boom, housing stats show
New numbers shared by the Saskatchewan government Friday spotlighted booming housing starts in Regina and Saskatoon, but skipped over Prince Albert. However, the city's own website shows that it is fe...
Aug 17, 2024
Casino applies to P.A. city hall for major expansion
The Northern Lights Casino is looking to city hall for the go ahead for a major expansion which would close to double the size of the building.Prince Albert city council will be asked on Monday to OK ...
Aug 16, 2024
‘Huge economic opportunity’: Sask. rare earth facility gets $16M boost
The Saskatchewan Research Council has secured a large government investment to help develop its rare earth processing facility in Saskatoon.Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada's minister of energy and resource...
Aug 15, 2024
New water treatment plant opens on Muskoday First Nation
Muskoday First Nation no longer has to solely rely on the Prince Albert Rural Water Utility to meet their water needs. Instead, a new state-of-the-art facility will provide safe and reliable water to ...
Aug 15, 2024
Company is working to ‘Cree’ate nuclear industry language for fluent speakers
The complexity of modern scientific terminology and the Cree language are sometimes at odds, but Vince Natomagan is aiming to find bridges of understanding between those two worlds."I have to think Cr...
Aug 15, 2024
MN-S calls on governments to halt secondary uranium mine on Patterson Lake
The Mtis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S) is concerned about the environmental stress facing Patterson Lake if a second Uranium mine is built to extract ore. As a result, they are calling on the federal and...
Aug 14, 2024
