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The Town of Cabri is going to have its first-ever woman elected to the Mayoral seat. 

Norma Pederson has been acclaimed as the Mayor of Cabri and is the first woman ever to lead the government of the town in its 112-year history. 

Pederson for her part is immensely grateful for the chance to lead her community in the upcoming term. 

"I just think it's a complete honour," said Pederson. "I look forward to what the next four years will bring."

There is a new partnership delivering the Soy Quality Program to Canadian producers.  

Nathan Gerelus is the manager of National Affairs at the Canadian Grain Commission, based in Winnipeg, and he says, 

“We are excited to have recently partnered with Soy Canada to deliver the Soy Quality Program, and that will start with this year's 2024 harvest.” 

The Manitoba Beef and Forage Conference is set to take place Wednesday at the William Glesby Centre in Portage La Prairie, where a full range of Agri business booths will be on hand for producers across the prairies to explore. 

The conference is a popular event to hear from local producers and industry experts across the region discussing the application of research on the farm.  Forage and livestock specialist Shawn Cabak is one of the speakers and notes the venue will be full of agribusiness booths for producers to visit. 

With the Saskatchewan provincial election now concluded, West Central Saskatchewan residents are gearing up for the upcoming municipal election season. Across the region, communities are preparing for local elections that could bring fresh faces to council chambers or reinforce the stability of long-serving local representatives.

A construction worker who was robbed, shot, and left for dead last week remains in a Saskatoon hospital awaiting further surgeries as he begins a long road to recovery.

Early on Oct. 24, Orlan Peterson was working alone on White Star Road, roughly 14 kilometres north of Prince Albert, when a group of armed suspects entered the property, shot him, robbed him, and stole his work truck.

Dinsmore Composite School's junior girls volleyball team made a strong showing at the West Central District Volleyball Championships held in Outlook on Saturday, October 26. The team, consisting of Makenzie Crofts, Macey Edstrom, Sadie Noonan, Abigail Pajunen, Charity Pajunen, Sidney Keeler, Jade Beattie, Adele Sol, and Ali Morrison, took on some of the largest schools in the division, including Kindersley, Rosetown, and the host team from Outlook.

A former Canadian Olympian who once competed in snowboarding for Team Canada is now facing charges of an entirely different kind. Authorities announced Thursday that Ryan James Wedding, 43, is wanted for allegedly orchestrating a transnational drug trafficking ring that specialized in cocaine shipments across the Americas, alongside charges of murder. The FBI has issued a $50,000 reward for information leading to Wedding's arrest and extradition.

From Olympian to Alleged Drug Kingpin

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says its investigation into an Ontario facility processing plant-based milk found it was not adhering to Health Canada’s policies on listeria prevention.

The facility is still shut down after a listeria outbreak last summer linked to the plant infected at least 20 people in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Alberta and led to three deaths.

Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison has confirmed a report that Canada is alleging an Indian cabinet minister and close adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered intelligence-gathering operations targeting Canadians.

The Washington Post first reported that Canadian officials alleged Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah was behind a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting Sikh separatists in Canada.

Morrison told MPs at the national security committee Tuesday that he was the one who confirmed Shah's name to that newspaper.

The Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) wrapped up their inaugural cow-calf survey and is sharing some of the results with people around the country.

The BCRC, funded thanks to check-offs from cattle sales in Canada, put on the survey to find how producers are working with their cattle and what practices could be adopted in the future.