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Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched Canada as a reliable trading partner that "has what the world wants" before an international audience Monday in New York City.

Addressing the Council on Foreign Relations think tank before attending the UN General Assembly, Carney said Canada has the resources, talent and ingenuity the world needs in a time of political and economic turbulence.

"This is not a transition. This is a rupture," he said. "This is a sharp change in a short period of time, driven by a variety of factors. We have a determination to rise up and meet this."

Health care advocates say they're worried the Liberal government will backtrack on its promise to create a universal, single-payer pharmacare program.

Frédérique Chabot, executive director of Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, said conversations with government officials lead her to believe Ottawa is "seriously considering" a different approach that would instead provide coverage to people without private insurance.

As we enter the full swing of the fall run in Western Canada, beef cattle producers need to think about the right time to sell their calves while also considering the different marketing avenues, whether it's online, an auction mart, or direct from the ranch.

On top of these decisions, producers should fully understand certain terms to avoid potential income loss.

Because cow-calf producers usually only sell calves once a year, these terms can fall out of memory and should be reviewed.

One important term for many producers is price slide.

Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions stalled in 2024, putting the country’s 2030 climate target out of reach, according to the Canadian Climate Institute’s latest Early Estimate of National Emissions (EENE).

RCMP are asking the public for help in locating a missing 42-year-old woman who was last seen nearly three months ago.

Police say Dianne Penner was last spotted on June 26 at a residence in Langham, Sask. She was reported missing to Warman RCMP on Sept. 19.

Since then, officers have been checking locations Penner is known to frequent and following up on tips, but she has not been found.

Penner is described as five-foot-eight, weighing 110 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a dark-coloured hoodie.

Groundwork has officially begun on a new lithium demonstration plant just southwest of Stoughton, a project poised to test the viability of large-scale lithium production in southeast Saskatchewan. 

The facility, known as Project Aurora, is being developed by EMP Metals and its partner, Saltworks Technologies. The project is one of the first to receive support from the provincial government's new Saskatchewan Critical Mineral Innovation Incentive. 

A few games had to be postponed, but it was still a terrific weekend of football around West Central. Kerrobert and Unity added a tally into the win column looking at six-aside play, while in nine-aside play, the Delisle Rebels earned their first win of the season to create a logjam behind Humboldt.   

Emergency crews were called to a combine fire west of Laporte on Sunday afternoon.

The Chesterfield, Eatonia, and Newcombe (CEN) fire crews were dispatched around 4 p.m. after reports of a blaze on farm equipment.

Officials say the farmer was able to use their own equipment to largely contain the fire on the combine’s header, minimizing damage before crews arrived.

CEN firefighters assisted in putting out a field fire sparked by the incident and ensured the scene was safe.

No injuries were reported.

A major infrastructure project is about to break ground at the Kindersley Regional Park Golf Course. The purchase of a state-of-the-art irrigation system was announced in the spring prior to the course opening, and that equipment is rolling in with the end of the season nearing.

Kyle RCMP dealt with multiple complaints in the area between September 12 and 18, 2025, including theft, suspicious vehicles, traffic offences, and minor collisions.

On September 13, RCMP began an investigation into the theft of a purse from a rural location in the RM of Lacadena. On September 15, officers responded to a suspicious vehicle north of Kyle on Highway 4, and another suspicious person complaint came in on September 18.