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Canada's premiers are heading into to a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Saskatoon Monday armed with their wish lists for major "nation-building" projects that could buttress the economy in the face of a U.S. trade war.

Carney asked the premiers to each pass on five suggestions for national infrastructure projects, and Monday's meeting will aim to identify the ones that will make the final cut to be fast tracked using legislation Ottawa may introduce as early as this week.

Canada Post has rejected a request from the union representing about 55,000 of its workers to send their ongoing labour dispute to binding arbitration.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers made the request in a statement Saturday, saying it was inviting Canada Post to a fair, final and binding arbitration process to resolve negotiations that have dragged on for months without producing a new collective agreement. 

After a smoky weekend, the southeast is being greeted by showers to start off this week, beginning with a system today. Environment and Climate Change Canada Meteorologist Danielle Desjardins takes a look at the system bringing a bit more moisture.

As Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre argues the government's plan to speed up key infrastructure projects doesn't go far enough, some Indigenous leaders are accusing Ottawa of not giving them enough time to weigh in.

The government is developing a bill to fast-track what it calls nation-building projects with a streamlined regulatory approval process as a substitute for reviews under the Impact Assessment Act, also known as C-69.

While the federal government and cities across Canada are making strides on expanding the housing supply, the provinces still need to get serious about building quality homes, a new report released Thursday argues.

No province earned a grade higher than C+ in the report assembled by the Task Force for Housing and Climate, a non-governmental body that was struck in 2023 with backing from the philanthropic Clean Economy Fund.

The task force's "report card" evaluated governments based on their policies for building homes quickly and sustainably.

The Regional Park Pass Lending Program will return to the Estevan Public Library from June 16 to September 15. This summer, 20 passes will be available locally, offering free access to nearly 100 regional parks across Saskatchewan.

“You can have it for a week,” said Jason Redshaw, manager of the Estevan Public Library. “But the bulk of them, people will pick up in the morning and normally return later on in the day just to get down to Woodlawn Park.”

Several days of clear sky and high temperatures are in the forecast in the southeast, and with the weekend on the horizon, there's no doubt that we are all going to get our fair share of sunshine.

Dr. Jasmine Hasselback, chair of Sun Smart Saskatchewan, sheds some light on the questions people have when the UV index soars.

Q: Do you need to burn to develop a tan?

Ottawa probably can't help overhaul how municipalities raise funds in the near future, because the federal government is now focused on major, nation-building projects, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday

"We're building on what has worked. We're learning lessons from what hasn't," Carney said at an event held by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

The group represents cities and towns that have lobbied Ottawa for years to give them more independent means of financing their operations.