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Saskatchewan has become much more than a land of rolling wheat fields and emerald forests. No longer relying solely on its economic backbone of agriculture, the province has even become more than the land of milk and honey - increasingly, it is the land of ore and money. Minerals make up a...

Whether it's potash, oil, uranium or forest products, Saskatchewan is rich in a variety of natural resources, which is moving our province into the forefront of economic growth and development. At the centre of that growth is Saskatchewan's mining industry. In 2011, the estimated value of...

Saskatoon has evolved into a major manufacturing centre, with 364 companies employing a workforce of 9,900 people, or 6.7 per cent of the region's total employment. The largest three sub-groups within the manufacturing centre are machinery manufacturing, fabricated metal product...

Consumer prices rose by two per cent in the year ended in April, slightly ahead of the annual pace seen the previous month. Statistics Canada said increases in transportation costs were the major factor in the uptick. They were 3.2 per cent higher. But energy prices increased 1.1 per cent in...

Canadians who get creeped out by web ads that seem to know a little too much about their personal habits should have access in the coming months to an opt-out tool that will help fight the effect of so-called behavioural advertising. IAB Canada, a non-profit association representing the...

TOKYO—Energy companies from China, South Korea and Japan have put aside political and commercial rivalries to ship billions of dollars worth of Canadian liquefied natural gas to Asian markets, but they will face stiff competition for supplies and customers from a raft of competing projects. In...

Windfarms for all, but without using steel or concrete Posted in Science, 16th May 2012 08:19 GMT Analysis Extremist green campaigning group WWF - endorsed by no less a body than the European Space Agency - has stated that economic growth should be abandoned, that citizens of the world's...

Sorry if it's not doom and glom..... Canada's economy added 58,200 mostly full-time jobs in April, almost six times what economists had forecast. It was the second month in a row that employment grew, following a jump of 82,300 in March, and far exceeded the 10,000 jobs that economists had...

Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union, which represents workers in Saskatchewan's mining and manufacturing industries. Premier Brad Wall calls federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair "very, very divisive" for expressing concern that Canada's overvalued petro-dollar is eliminating...

Bummer. I was looking forward to the end. NEW YORK—Archeologists working in Guatemala have found a small room amid Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society’s intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago...

Tom Mulcair's derision of oilsands is raising the ire of the West as he tries to pit one part of the country against the other Unusually, a premier is stepping forward to do battle with official Opposition leader Tom Mulcair over the pace of western Canadian resource development...

No ****ing **** Sherlock! His handler arguing with security to get him on a plane without a passport was the dead give away. The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of al-Qaeda last month to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner was actually a double agent who infiltrated the...

Yeah, lets grow jet fuel instead of food. **** the starving, I want to fly to Jamaica with ego-friendly jet fuels. The seeds for a new kind of jet biofuel are being grown right here in Saskatchewan. Biojet flight tests are currently taking place in Ottawa using a fuel blend derived from...

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is accusing federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair of dividing Canadians with his comments about the economy and energy. In a recent interview, Mulcair said the resource sector in western Canada is artificially driving up the dollar, making it tough on eastern...

Saskatchewan Immigration Minister Rob Norris says there is a "healthy tension" between the provincial and federal governments over a cap Ottawa has put in place that limits the number of immigrants allowed into the province. "We're not going to be discouraged, nor are we going to be...

REGINA — Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the federal government’s shelterbelt program at Indian Head played an important role in prairie agriculture but Ottawa no longer needs to be in the business of distributing trees for farmers to plant. “Farmers don’t farm like they did 100 years...

REGINA — For Saskatchewan’s Troy Kincaid — rig worker by profession but fishermen by hobby — the waters of Hawaii were recently the scene of an epic struggle between him and a 231-pound bigeye tuna. After 45 minutes, the 29-year-old was able to reel the fish in. The catch, that came on...

CAT LAKE, ONT.—Item 9 in the letter to members of the Cat Lake reserve from the children in Grade 6 is as blunt as it is painful. “It hurts us and shoomis and kokum (grandpa and grandma) when you’re doing drugs and you’re not at home.” Cat Lake is the epicentre of prescription drug addiction...

Saskatchewan's environment minister is fuming about a report that says the province isn't taking climate change seriously. Dustin Duncan says he's disappointed that the David Suzuki Foundation released the report without talking to the province about what it's doing to cut greenhouse gas...

Guess what? MORE pipe! Hooray!!! CALGARY—Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP KMP +1.11%said Thursday it will begin a $5 billion expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline, nearly tripling the capacity of crude oil it can ship to Canada's west coast—the latest project aimed at moving the country's...