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There were no injuries reported after a collision Wednesday afternoon involving two semis at the corner of southbound Highway 75 and Provincial Road 243, just north of the U.S. border crossing, in the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin.

According to RCMP, officers from the Emerson detachment arrived at the scene around 4:30pm.

Agriculture is one of the largest industries in the province, and simultaneously one of the most dangerous. As seeding and calving season gets underway, safety is once again top of mind for local farmers and their employees.  

Ryan Jacobson is the Chief Executive Officer with the Saskatchewan Safety Council (SSC) and formerly operated an agricultural farm in southeast Saskatchewan. He explains that every industry experiences gaps in safety protocols. 

Few details are known this morning, but Altona Rhineland Emergency Services (ARES) was called to a fire at the Altona/Rhineland Waste Disposal site Wednesday evening. The facility is located northeast of town, and smoke could be seen billowing from the blaze as the sun set.

As separatist discontent bubbles up anew in Alberta, experts say a vote to sever ties with Canada would pitch the country into unexplored territory on everything from money to First Nations and national parks.

“You’re in terra incognita. You’re off the map when we get to that stage of the proceedings,” said law professor Eric Adams.

“A lot of things are going to be broken on the way out the door.”

The creators of tomorrow are again having the opportunity to present their pieces in a professional setting through the Gallery in the Park Student Art Show running through Saturday, May 10th in Altona. Students from W.C. Miller Collegiate, Mennonite Collegiate Institute in Gretna and Morden Collegiate have works installed inside the Schwartz House.

One of those is Miller Grade 12 student Aivery Schellenberg who has entered a piece for the first time, an acrylic painting titled "The Battle of the Mind".

After the Second World War came to a close, Canada pulled itself away from Great Britain and planted itself firmly within a North American political and economic compact that generated prosperity for much of the western world for decades.

But as the world marks 80 years since the end of the war in Europe, an increasingly unstable geopolitical climate — and an administration in Washington bent on fighting a trade war with much of the world — has Canada looking back to the continent as a way to preserve peace and prosperity.

The Municipality of Rhineland has been singled out, twice, by the Manitoba Good Roads Association.
    
At its recent annual awards presentation, the Municipality received two awards.
    
The first is the Provincial Shield for the best maintained system of rural municipal roads in District 2.
    
The second award is the Judges Shield for the most improved municipal roads in District 2.
    

The grassroots group behind Altona's Field of Dreams project is being inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame for their work in getting the Access Field built.
    
They are Ken Wiebe, Gord Sawatzky, Ben Dueck and the late Menno Friesen. 

Winkler Minor Basketball wrapped up another year and Executive Director Wes Ens couldn't be happier or prouder of how it all went. 

Observers say the American government’s move toward deregulation could have sweeping consequences for Canadians.

A new policy paper warns Canadian agriculture to prepare for changing U.S. domestic policies that seek efficiencies through deregulation.

The paper from Agri-Food Economic Systems said this could include food inspection.

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