Tag Archives: Business & Economy

Stability and local support needed: Sask and P.A. chambers respond to throne speech
The best stimulus is certainty, so if there's going to be a federal election make it quick: that's the take from the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce following Wednesday's Liberal government throne sp...
Sep 25, 2020

Multiple people isolating on site at McClean Lake
More contacts are now being isolated as a precaution after an employee at the McClean Lake uranium mill in northern Saskatchewan tested positive for COVID-19.So far, there remains just one positive ca...
Sep 23, 2020

COVID-19 case reported at McClean Lake uranium mill site
A case of COVID-19 has been identified on the McClean Lake uranium mill in northern Saskatchewan.Orano Canada confirmed Sunday one of their employees tested positive and is in isolation at the mill ca...
Sep 21, 2020

University dental clinic to open amid quiet start for new P.A. campus
The COVID-19 pandemic means there are very few students physically present on the new Prince Albert campus, (as is the case on campuses across the country), but it hasn't stopped the much-awaited new ...
Sep 18, 2020

Peat moss harvesting near La Ronge could start in 2022
If all goes as planned, Lambert Peat Moss Inc. will begin developing land 15 kilometres south of Air Ronge in 2021 with harvesting activities starting in 2022. "When the project is up and running, its...
Sep 15, 2020

Kenney says cross-country Energy East pipeline remains a possibility
CALGARY - Alberta's premier says new federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole was just stating the obvious when he indicated the Energy East pipeline project was off the table in a conversation with t...
Sep 15, 2020

KidSport to benefit from Co-op Fuel Good Day
For every litre of fuel sold today at the Air Ronge and La Ronge Lake Country Co-op Gas Bars, 10 cents will be donated to La Ronge and Area KidSport. It's all part of the cooperative's Fuel Good Day, ...
Sep 15, 2020

Council approves sale of shuttered downtown hotel
Once one of Prince Albert's top hotels, now a boarded-up shell of its former self, it appears the shuttered downtown Quality Inn is getting a third act. Prince Albert city council unanimously approved...
Sep 09, 2020

Canada's top lawyer hopes to inspire more indigenous youth
The first indigenous president of the Canadian Bar Association has a Saskatchewan connection. Brad Regehr was born and raised in Manitoba but is a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (Sandy Bay...
Sep 06, 2020
Residents receive letter about Lambert peat moss project near La Ronge
Lambert Peat Moss Inc. has sent a letter to residents of the tri-communities outlining plans for extraction. The letter shows four sections of land where Lambert is proposing to harvest peat for the p...
Sep 04, 2020