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Earlier this year, Protein Industries Canada announced a project and partnership with agriculture companies to help improve plant-based products including cheese. Partnering with Daiya Foods, Ingredion, Ingredion Plant Based Specialties (IPBPS) and Lovingly Made Flour Mills; the goal is to use Canadian grown crops such as peas and faba beans to help improve the taste, texture, and overall quality of plant-based cheese.  

Kindersley, SK — Due to positive feedback from local residents, the Town of Kindersley has extended the deadline for its one-time Preventative Plumbing Subsidy. Homeowners now have until April 1, 2025, to apply for the program, aimed at disconnecting storm drainage systems like weeping tiles, sump pits, and eavestrough downspouts from the municipal sewer system.

Kindersley, SK — Saskatchewan RCMP’s Prince Albert Crime Reduction Team (CRT), in collaboration with the Kindersley RCMP Detachment, has laid charges against two individuals following a significant drug trafficking investigation in Kindersley.

On November 6, 2024, officers executed a search warrant on a vehicle and a residence located on 8th Street West in Kindersley. The operation resulted in the seizure of approximately $30,000 in cash, 354 grams of cocaine, a small quantity of fentanyl, 800 illegal cigarettes, and various drug trafficking-related items.

SASKATCHEWAN – Drivers are being urged to use extra caution on Saskatchewan highways following a string of collisions involving moose reported to RCMP within a brief 30-minute span on Friday evening.

Between 6:20 p.m. and 6:45 p.m., five separate incidents were reported in various parts of the province, including areas near Prince Albert in north-central Saskatchewan, as well as in the Rose Valley, Hudson Bay, Melfort/Kinistino, and Southey regions.

Great Plains College has announced that more than $213,000 in scholarships, bursaries, and awards have been distributed to 130 students this fall, providing a boost to those pursuing higher education.

Hometown Hero: Eston's own Rilyn Roadhouse guarding the net for Western Prairie Jr Klippers

When it comes to goalies in the Female Junior Hockey League, Rilyn Roadhouse has quickly earned a reputation as a force to be reckoned with. Born and raised in Eston, Saskatchewan, Rilyn has been skating since she was just four years old, developing her skills on the local rinks before making her mark in the junior league.

President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts are predicting.

The threat of the tariff is causing a lot of concern north of the border, where the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said such a tariff could take a $30-billion bite out of the Canadian economy.

A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged."

The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says Indigenous children across the country were forcibly removed from their homes and taken "to live with strangers — sometimes hundreds of kilometres from their families and Indigenous communities."

Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu.

The agency said in a statement Wednesday that testing at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirms the teen did contract the H5N1 avian flu, the same strain related to viruses found in B.C. flocks in an ongoing outbreak at poultry farms.

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is currently hosting its annual 2024 district meetings across Manitoba. They began in Arborg on Tuesday, November 12, and will wrap up in Swan River on Thursday, December 19.  

Jill Verwey, President of KAP says organizing and hosting the meetings is a requirement and part of their grassroots policy.