Federal Politics

Proposed La Ronge housing program includes cash payment incentives

Given the need to address a housing shortage in La Ronge and the region as a whole, town council is moving forward with a strategy to help guide residential land development and encourage housing cons...

Jan 20, 2025

Federal cabinet braces for trade war as Donald Trump is inaugurated

OTTAWA - Federal cabinet ministers are gathering in Montebello, Que., today as Donald Trump returns to the White House. Trump has pledged to sign an executive order on inauguration day to impose 25 pe...

Jan 20, 2025

Canadian leaders descend on Washington for Trump’s inauguration

Canadian politicians are descending on Washington, D.C., amid threats of 25 per cent tariffs when Donald Trump returns to the White House.Many are going to an event at the Canadian Embassy, which sits...

Jan 19, 2025

Saskatchewan watching closely for tariffs threatened by Trump

Canadian and Saskatchewanian lawmakers, manufacturers and economists will be watching closely this week as Donald Trump closes his fist around U.S. power.The U.S president-elect has repeatedly threate...

Jan 19, 2025

Liberal leadership race crystallizes as candidates make opening pitches

The experienced hand who can fix the economy. The tough negotiator who can take on a Donald Trump White House. The millennial long-hauler who can rebuild the party. That's how candidates competing for...

Jan 18, 2025

Canada prepares counter-tariffs; Sask NDP says threat emphasizes need to focus on northern economy

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ottawa is ready to retaliate if US president-elect Donald Trump slaps Canada with devastating new tariffsTrudeau says his government "will respond'' and "not hesitat...

Jan 17, 2025

Customs and Immigration Union questions Sask. border security plan

A few days after the Government of Saskatchewan unveiled its border security plan, the head of the Customs and Immigration Union - which represents workers at the border - was still scratching his hea...

Jan 17, 2025

All eyes are on Freeland after Carney enters the race to replace Trudeau

OTTAWA - Chrystia Freeland is pledging not to back down from Donald Trump's tariff threats should she be the next leader of the Liberal party and prime minister of Canada.Freeland wrote an op-ed in th...

Jan 17, 2025

Moe, Trudeau and premiers tout coming together to face tariff threat

Most of the country's premiers stuck to a Team Canada narrative after the meeting on U.S. relations and the threat of tariffs on Wednesday in Ottawa.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out saying they ...

Jan 16, 2025

Trudeau says Trump's comments on 51st state 'flattering' but a 'non-starter'

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says talk of Canada becoming the 51st state is a distraction from more pressing threats of U.S tariffs on Canada and their likely impact.In an interview that aired Sunday...

Jan 12, 2025