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The Government of Saskatchewan is doing their best to make life more affordable for seniors living in a personal care home.

They announced that a $10 million investment included in the 2025-26 Provincial Budget will be starting this month to increase Personal Care Home Benefit by up to $1,000 per month. This also includes another $120 per month towards residents under Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID).

April’s Classroom of the Month took us to Westberry School, where Mrs. Dimitroff’s energetic kindergarten class was treated to a lunch full of fun, food, and sunshine! The Country 104 crew brought the party with games, pizza, bubbles, and sidewalk chalk—turning the schoolyard into a colourful celebration.

A big thanks to our amazing sponsors for making it all happen: Edge Realty, Rocky Mountain Equipment, Good to Go Trucking, Good to Go Rentals, GPE Fluids Management, CJV The Carpet People, Luk Plumbing Heating and Electric, and Kindersley Castle Building Centre!

The Liberals have won their fourth mandate this time under the leadership of leader Mark Carney.

When Mark Carney formed government as Canada's 24th Prime Minister on March 14, 2025, he selected 34-year-old Kody Blois from the Kings-Hants riding in Nova Scotia as the Federal Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Rural Economic Development.

Blois is heading back to Parliament after winning his riding last night. Expectations are that Carney could keep him in that role, but that will be determined when he announces his new cabinet in the days ahead.

A southwest man well-known in rodeo circles across western Canada will be spending the next three and a half years behind bars after his recent sentencing on sexual assault charges.

Maple Creek's Cody Robert Lane appeared in Red Deer Court of King's Bench on Thursday, April 17, where he received a guilty verdict and a 45-month sentence. 

The 29-year-old had been in and out of court since the incident took place on June 20, 2020. 

He was required to register on the sex offender registry and was ordered to provide a DNA sample. 

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will not have a seat in the next Parliament, after a stunning upset by Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in the riding of Carleton. 

Poilievre's loss raises a host of questions about his ability to continue with the Conservative party leadership, and the role he will play as the House of Commons reconvenes. 

In his concession speech on election night, Poilievre pledged that Conservatives will "do our constitutional duty of holding government to account and proposing better alternatives." 

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A fun volunteer led project involving Unity was highlighted by the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan on Sunday, for the start of National Volunteer Week around the country, running April 27-May 3.

The archival group is leading a project titled "Saskatchewan Then & Now" where volunteers are given an archived photograph and then asked to recreate it with a modern-day version.

Canadians didn’t have to wait long last night to find out who would form the next government.

It was confirmed Monday night that Liberal leader Mark Carney will be staying on as Prime Minister after his party's win in the 2025 Canadian Federal Election, called last night shortly after 8:00 PM here in Saskatchewan. The only question now is if the Liberals will form a majority or minority government, as Canadians won't know until later on Tuesday according to the Canadian Press.

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to unite the country and govern for all after Canadians handed the Liberals a fourth consecutive mandate in Monday's federal election.

"Who is ready," he shouted to cheers and applause and people chanting his name in a crowded hockey arena in Ottawa in the wee hours of the morning. "Who is ready? Who is ready to stand up for Canada with me? And who is ready to build Canada strong?"

Prime Minister Mark Carney will lead a minority government after a very close general election race that left the Liberals just three seats shy of a majority. 

Just before 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Elections Canada showed the Liberals projected to win 169 ridings after flipping one riding in Quebec from the Bloc Québécois earlier in the day. 

The Conservatives won 144 seats and will form the official Opposition again. The Bloc Québécois followed with 22 seats, the NDP with seven projected seats and the Green Party with one seat.