A Saskatchewan judge says an emoji can amount to a contractual agreement and ordered a farmer to pay more than $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after responding to a text message with a thumbs-up image. The Court of King’s Bench decision said a grain buyer with South West Terminal sent a…

Saskatchewan’s education minister has suspended Planned Parenthood from making presentations in classrooms after the organization took “inappropriate” sexual material to a high school. Dustin Duncan said Thursday that the material, a pamphlet, was recently obtained by a Grade 9 student at the school in Lumsden, north of Regina. It included graphic, sexual words beginning with…

An educational assistant in Saskatchewan has been fired for posting an article to a private Facebook group about parents keeping their kids home on June 1 in protest against Pride Month in schools. Leah Maier worked with Kindergarten to Grade 5 students at P.J. Gillen School, an elementary school in Esterhazy, for five years prior…

Commentary Saskatchewan, one of the world’s leading sources of uranium production, recently announced a significant achievement. “Saskatchewan is now the second largest producer of uranium in the world!” Premier Scott Moe tweeted on June 15. “Ranked third in 2021, Saskatchewan has now passed Namibia and Australia making our province a front-runner in supplying a reliable,…

Saskatchewan politicians have rapidly increased international travel since COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were loosened as Premier Scott Moe remains laser-focused on global markets. A Canadian Press analysis of publicly available data on out-of-province ministerial expenses shows a more than 33 percent increase in spending on international trips for Moe and his ministers from 2018 to 2022….

Hundreds of people in Saskatchewan are still unable to return home as crews continue to battle wildfires in the province’s northern region. The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says it’s tackling 23 active wildfires in the north, including five fires that are not contained and three of them requiring crews to protect property. The agency says…

Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault has warned Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe that it will be illegal to run coal-fired power plants after 2030 unless they are equipped with carbon capture systems. Guilbeault said on May 17 that the federal government has already regulated the ban on coal through the Canadian Environmental Protection Act…

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said “come get me” after the federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault on May 17 said the province would be in violation of the criminal code if it continues operating coal-fired electrical generation plants post 2030. Guilbeault on May 17 had warned Moe that it will be illegal to run…

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said “come get me” after the federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault on May 17 said the province would be in violation of the criminal code if it continues operating coal-fired electrical generation plants post 2030. Guilbeault on May 17 had warned Moe that it will be illegal to run…

Mounties in Saskatchewan have used forensic genealogy to identify human remains found in a field as belonging to an Alberta woman who had not been seen for more than two years. RCMP say a human skull was found in Morris, a rural municipality southeast of Saskatoon, by people looking for shed antlers in 2021. The…