Trap Game
Mustangs go for 12th straight in rescheduled contest with Ice Wolves
The Melfort Mustangs will look to pick up their 12th win in a row Tuesday night, when they travel to La Ronge for a rescheduled contest with the Ice Wolves.Melfort is coming off a weekend sweep of the league-best Flin Flon Bombers, which included the Mustangs handing Flin Flon their first home loss of the season."...
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Time-old debate
Time Change? Saskatchewan's been over it since the '60s
As British Columbia joins a growing global movement away from Daylight Saving Time (DST), Saskatchewan's once-controversial stance appears increasingly ahead of its time.For six decades, Saskatchewan stood apart in Canada as the only province that didn't 'fall back' by an hour in November to extend evening daylight, or...
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Trap Game
Mustangs go for 12th straight in rescheduled contest with Ice Wolves
The Melfort Mustangs will look to pick up their 12th win in a row Tuesday night, when they travel to La Ronge for a rescheduled contest with the Ice Wolves.Melfort is coming off a weekend sweep of the league-best Flin Flon Bombers, which included the Mustangs handing Flin Flon their first home loss of the season."...
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Lone occupant uninjured
Rollover south of Nipawin Monday night
The Nipawin Fire Department was called out to a rollover south of Codette Monday night. The single vehicle crash happened on Highway 35 just before 7:30 p.m. "Snow was heavy at the time making visibility difficult," the department said on its social media pages. The lone occupant of the vehicle was uninjured....
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Goal attained
Bleich signs with Trojans in Tisdale
Parker Bleich of Nipawin has signed with the Tisdale Trojans and will turn his focus to the U18 AAA hockey ranks next season.Bleich, 15, is a product of the Nipawin Minor Hockey Association and most recently the Northeast Wolfpack U15 AA organization. The Trojans announced last week that the Saskatchewan U18 AAA Hockey...
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Collision happened on Sunday
Two-vehicle crash in Nipawin sends one person to hospital
After a slow February, the Nipawin Fire Department (NFD) was kept busy as the calendar flipped to March. They were called to a two-vehicle crash in Nipawin just after lunch on Sunday. One driver was taken to hospital by EMS as a precaution. It marks the 11th motor vehicle collision response by the NFD this year. The ca...
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Five homemade devices placed
Tire deflation devices scattered around Nipawin
RCMP in Nipawin are looking into the placement of homemade tire deflation devices around the community. Police were called Sunday morning about the devices on several streets within Nipawin, and at the entrance to the RCMP detachment parking lot. RCMP immediately patrolled the streets in Nipawin and areas around other ...
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Five winners
Hawks, Mustangs dominate SJHL Players of the Month list
The Nipawin Hawks and Melfort Mustangs dominated the Players of the Month list in the SJHL for February. The SGEU MVP of the Month is Nipawin's Mason Karakochuk, after an impressive 12 goals and 12 assists in just 12 games. Teammate Eric Hoiness is the Bourgault Forward of the Month for February, with five goals and 15...
Mar 02, 2026
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Saskatchewan
Time-old debate
Time Change? Saskatchewan's been over it since the '60s
As British Columbia joins a growing global movement away from Daylight Saving Time (DST), Saskatchewan's once-controversial stance appears increasingly ahead of its time.For six decades, Saskatchewan stood apart in Canada as the only province that didn't 'fall back' by an hour in November to extend evening daylight, or...
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Prince Albert pulp mill
BMI signs deal with American tenant for part of old Prince Albert pulp mill
The first of multiple new tenants that are planned for the old pulp mill north of Prince Albert has been announced. BMI, the new owners, and Plum Gas Solution, an American company based in Michigan but with offices in Calgary and Drayton Valley, announced they signed an MOU on Tuesday. "As soon as we purchased t...
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International politics
'The national integrity is at risk right now': Sask. lawyer responds to U.S. incursion in Iran
A woman who moved from Iran to Canada two years ago, and currently works in Saskatchewan as a lawyer, says the situation in her home country is far more complicated than what's being portrayed in the media and not every Iranian is in favor of an American-led incursion.The woman who asked to be identified only as S.M. o...
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parole revoked multiple times
Conditions issued for hockey coach Bernie Lynch's release from prison
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S&P/TSX composite down over 1,000 points, price of oil rises
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Wilkie care home abuse trial adjoured to July for closing arguments
A former care worker accused of abusing vulnerable residents at a Wilkie group home will return to court this summer for closing arguments.Jaclyn Elias is charged with assault, sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon and uttering threats in connection with alleged incidents at Prairie Branches' Wilkie Group Home N...
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Trap Game
Mustangs go for 12th straight in rescheduled contest with Ice Wolves
The Melfort Mustangs will look to pick up their 12th win in a row Tuesday night, when they travel to La Ronge for a rescheduled contest with the Ice Wolves.Melfort is coming off a weekend sweep of the league-best Flin Flon Bombers, which included the Mustangs handing Flin Flon their first home loss of the season."...
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Goal attained
Bleich signs with Trojans in Tisdale
Parker Bleich of Nipawin has signed with the Tisdale Trojans and will turn his focus to the U18 AAA hockey ranks next season.Bleich, 15, is a product of the Nipawin Minor Hockey Association and most recently the Northeast Wolfpack U15 AA organization. The Trojans announced last week that the Saskatchewan U18 AAA Hockey...
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Five winners
Hawks, Mustangs dominate SJHL Players of the Month list
The Nipawin Hawks and Melfort Mustangs dominated the Players of the Month list in the SJHL for February. The SGEU MVP of the Month is Nipawin's Mason Karakochuk, after an impressive 12 goals and 12 assists in just 12 games. Teammate Eric Hoiness is the Bourgault Forward of the Month for February, with five goals and 15...
Mar 02, 2026
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Season sweep
Hawks flightless in loss to Terriers
The Hawks were swept in their season series versus Yorkton after Friday's 7-2 rout of Nipawin in Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) play.The loss was the Hawks fourth in a row away from the Centennial Arena and Nipawin has now dropped to 13 wins and 13 losses this season including two of those at Westland Arena.Y...
Feb 28, 2026
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Another Massive Test Coming
Mustangs finally beat Bombers, win 10th in a row
The Melfort Mustangs accomplished something on Friday that they hadn't yet been able to do all season.Melfort hosted the league-best Flin Flon Bombers and defeated them, doing so by a 4-3 score."Obviously, a big win, a huge one for the team, and one that we've had marked on our calendars since we last saw them, be...
Feb 28, 2026
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Masters provincial curling underway in Tisdale
The best senior curlers in Saskatchewan are in Tisdale this weekend.The Tisdale Curling Club is hosting this year's men's and women's Masters Provincial Championships."It's always exciting to bring in new folks from different clubs and kind of showcase our facility. There are some really good curlers in this field...
Feb 28, 2026
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Northeast Profiles
It’s a Co-op Thing
Building, Feeding, Fuelling, Growing and Helping Keep Our Communities Safe
At Prairie North Co-op (PNC) we often say that we are proud to serve our members with products and services that help build, feed, fuel and grow the communities in which we live and do business. Now we can add "help keep our members and communities safe' through our commitment to a strong safety culture to that li...
Aug 26, 2025
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Guide dogs
CNIB in need of volunteers to foster future service dogs across Canada
It's a rewarding experience filled with unconditional love and the opportunity to change the life of someone who is blind. Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Guide Dogs is urgently looking for volunteers to raise future guide dogs for people who are blind, Deafblind, or have low vision."There's a hug...
Jul 23, 2025
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Innovation at Work
Prairie North Co-op Retrofit Serves Rural Members
At Prairie North Co-operative, the vision is to be the trusted first choice in the community. Sometimes achieving that vision requires thinking outside the box and taking an innovative approach to problem solving. In 2019, the Prairie North Co-op Agro Fuel team began to offer a number of bulk oil products to its rural ...
Jul 10, 2025
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Saskatchewan to support pulse protein centre in India
Pulses, which include lentils, chickpeas, peas, and beans, are central to both Saskatchewan and India's agri-food sectors. Pulses are also healthy and...
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Improved access to China prompts call for market diversification
The Wheat Growers Association is welcoming China's final ruling to sharply lower the anti-dumping tariff on Canadian canola seed.The reduction of 5.9 ...
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Review of Canadian wheat breeding system confirms gaps and risks
The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition (CWRC) has completed its review of the Canadian wheat breeding innovation system. It was conducted by Synthesis ...
Feb 26, 2026
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Canada
Suspect in Vancouver Starbucks stabbing in 2023 testifies at his murder trial
VANCOUVER - A man accused of murder in a fatal stabbing at a Vancouver Starbucks has been called to testify at his trial after his defense lawyer argued he was suffering mental illness on the day of the killing. Inderdeep Singh Gosal, 34, pleaded not g...
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How sticky-fingered thieves use hot glue to find break-in targets in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are warning apartment residents of thieves using strands of hot glue to select which units they will break into. Vancouver police say that 10 apartment units in five separate buildings in the city and nearby Burnaby repo...
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Witnesses called at civil trial for Quebec cardinal suing accuser for defamation
MONTREAL - Cardinal Marc Ouellet is back in Quebec Superior Court as he tries to clear his name in the wake of an allegation of sexual misconduct. Lawyers for Ouellet called several witnesses today in his defamation suit against a woman who named him ...
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Pierre Poilievre set to give speech in London during first official trip overseas
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to speak at a think tank in London, England, today. He is on his first official trip abroad as Opposition leader with stops planned in both the U.K. and Germany. In London today he will deliver the M...
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Rising foreign investment in Canada doesn't tell the whole story, economists say
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the flow of foreign direct investment into the economy came close to a two-decade high last year, while economists caution the volume of capital entering Canada isn't the only metric that matters. Agency data released la...
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Quebec hotels reporting lacklustre bookings for March break week
MONTRÉAL - Hotels across Quebec are reporting a relatively quiet March break week. A survey by the province's main hotel association shows there are fewer overall bookings this week compared with last year's March break, with most primary and secondary...
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World
Macron orders France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean
PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday ordered France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the ongoing war in the Middle East. Macron s...
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Georgia school shooting suspect's father convicted of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter
WINDER, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia man whose teenage son is accused of killing two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Tuesday. Colin Gray also was found guilty of all ot...
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Iranian drones hit the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia, while hundreds are reported dead in Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital with a drone early Tuesday as it kept hitting targets around the region, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what U.S. President Do...
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Supreme Court blocks law against schools outing transgender students to their parents in California
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell religious parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student's approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group. ...
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Supreme Court preserves only GOP-held congressional district in New York City for 2026 elections
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Republicans in ruling that the boundaries of the only GOP-held congressional district in New York City do not not need to be redrawn for the 2026 elections, despite a court ruling that the distri...
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US half marathon women's leaders guided off course in error. One asks officials to 'make it right'
ATLANTA (AP) - The runner who was leading the women's race at the U.S. half marathon championships until she was mistakenly led off the course by a guide vehicle is calling for USA Track & Field to make right an outcome that cost her a spot in the ...
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