Rare earth metal industry to leverage Saskatchewan's existing mining connections
With rare earth metals likely to be an emerging industry in Saskatchewan, the province's existing industries could see benefits from a new sector opening up.
The Saskatchewan Research Council announced earlier this week that their Rare Earth Processing Facility is the first in North America to produce rare earth metals at a commercial scale.
Saskatchewan Growth Plan showing progress of commerce, healthcare in provincial update
The province has released an update for its Saskatchewan Growth Plan, which is a series of goals the provincial government has set for itself leading into 2030.
In their update, they documented some of the items that have made progress, met their goals, or have fallen behind since the plan was made back in 2020.
Estevan MLA Lori Carr says that the growth plan shows Saskatchewan is making good progress in a number of areas.
Provincial and federal governments expanding grants for childcare wages
More money is going to childcare in Saskatchewan from both the provincial and federal governments in order to boost the recruiting and retaining of staff.
$8.4 million is coming from both governments in the form of early learning and child care workforce enhancement grants, with an additional $1 million adding up to a total of around $53 million to the Early Childhood Educator wage enhancement grant.
On average this change represents an extra $1 an hour increase to the ECE wage enhancement grant maximums for all certification levels.
Elections Saskatchewan sending info to 800,000 voters for fall election
The provincial election is drawing closer with Saskatchewan residents voting for their MLAs this fall.
Getting all of the 800,000 registered voters to prepare for the election is a tough task, which Elections Saskatchewan is working on during the leadup.
Spokesperson Tim Kydd talks about some of the work they're doing over the next couple of months.
Provincial and federal governments expanding grants for childcare wages
More money is going to childcare in Saskatchewan from both the provincial and federal governments in order to boost the recruiting and retaining of staff.
$8.4 million is coming from both governments in the form of early learning and child care workforce enhancement grants, with an additional $1 million adding up to a total of around $53 million to the Early Childhood Educator wage enhancement grant.
On average this change represents an extra $1 an hour increase to the ECE wage enhancement grant maximums for all certification levels.
SaskPower establishes SaskNuclear for development of small modular reactors
SaskPower has announced they are creating a new subsidiary in SaskNuclear to manage their work on producing small modular reactors (SMR).
Their work is seeing one SMR built in the Estevan area, with more possibly to come following that unit's construction after 2030.
The new subsidiary will be focused on the regulatory and business processes involved in nuclear development.
SaskPower establishes SaskNuclear for development of small modular reactors
SaskPower has announced they are creating a new subsidiary in SaskNuclear to manage their work on producing small modular reactors (SMR).
Their work is seeing one SMR built in the Estevan area, with more possibly to come following that unit's construction after 2030.
The new subsidiary will be focused on the regulatory and business processes involved in nuclear development.
Province announces investment for 5,000 more childcare spaces
The federal and provincial governments have announced a combined investment of $71.3 million which will allocate over 5,000 child care spaces across the province over 2024-25.
This is part of the ongoing funding that has paid for child care spaces across the province, beginning in 2023.
The province says that so far 1,537 of these child care spaces have been allocated to new child care facilities or added to existing facilities in 27 Saskatchewan communities and 36 organizations.
Saskpower teaming up with Sask DLC for power engineering courses
Saskatchewan students will have more opportunities to get involved with the power industry as SaskPower and the Saskatchewan Distance Learning Corporation (DLC) are teaming up for online courses.
Those focus on 5th and 4th class power engineering, with the classes previously offered by SaskPower but now going through the DLC program.
SaskPower Spokesperson Joel Cherry talks about what the classes bring to Saskatchewan students.
SaskPower teaming up with Sask DLC for power engineering courses
Saskatchewan students will have more opportunities to get involved with the power industry as SaskPower and the Saskatchewan Distance Learning Corporation (DLC) are teaming up for online courses.
Those focus on 5th and 4th class power engineering, with the classes previously offered by SaskPower but now going through the DLC program.
SaskPower Spokesperson Joel Cherry talks about what the classes bring to Saskatchewan students.