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While fall is just a few weeks off, the Southeast College is already getting ready for its next school season. 

Tania Andrist, the executive director of innovation and applied research at the college, talks about their upcoming school year.

When Prime Minister Jean Chrétien got hit in the face with a pie 25 years ago, the only thing hurt was his pride.

A quarter-century later, Canada's security landscape has changed radically. Threats of violence against politicians have become far more common. What seemed like a harmless prank then looks more like a warning now.

"There is this view that you're a politician, it's all fair game," said Catherine McKenna — who was herself the target of multiple threats of violence while she served as a federal minister.

The Pan American Health Organization says Canada has the highest number of measles cases on the continent and more action is needed to address low vaccination rates.

The regional agency within the World Health Organization, which covers North and South America, says there has been an exponential rise in measles this year. 

As of Aug. 8, it recorded 10,139 confirmed measles cases across ten countries, representing a 33-fold increase compared to the same period in 2024, when there were 311 cases. 

Souris Valley Theatre said goodbye to its second and final musical of the season Friday night with Golden Gals Vacation, an original production by Randy Apostle that paid tribute to the sitcom The Golden Girls with a prairie twist.

Apostle said the sitcom’s enduring popularity made it an ideal project to adapt.

“When you go back and watch that show, it still stands up today—the risks they took, how funny they were, and the great leaps they made for women in comedy,” he said. “It’s always fun to be able to pay tribute to that.”

The southeast will once again play host to the ICED Conference, but this year it's looking to be bigger than ever before. The conference attracts guests and speakers from across Canada and the US, talking about technology and industry.

Gordon More, the Executive Director at the Southeast Techhub, says they've seen a lot of growth over the past couple of conferences.

Passengers around the world are feeling the effects after the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants with Air Canada announced its members were walking off the job after it was unable to reach an eleventh hour deal with the airline.

The strike officially began just before 1 a.m. ET on Saturday.

Keelin Pringnitz and her family, from Ottawa, were returning from a European vacation, but were left stranded after flights were cancelled.

A meeting between Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 postal workers has been delayed until next week due to the availability of federal mediators, the company says.

The two sides, which were set to meet Friday, will now meet on Aug. 20.

It's been two weeks since members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers rejected the employers' latest offers in a majority vote.

After more than a year and a half of negotiations, the two sides met with federal mediators earlier this week before agreeing to meet with each other.

Federated Co-operatives recently purchased the remaining shares in six agricultural retail outlets owned and operated by the Blair Family Group of Companies.

FCL Vice President of Energy & Ag Ron Healey, says the joint venture with the Blair family has been a positive, mutually beneficial partnership as Co-op continues to grow its ag retail footprint across Western Canada; now four local co-ops will take over the operation of the six Blair Crop Solution outlets.

Southeast College is looking ahead to a busy and exciting fall season, with new programs, community events, and unique learning opportunities for the region.

Executive Director of Innovation and Applied Research, Tania Andrist, says the college continues to grow its footprint in the energy and innovation space. Programs such as Power Engineering are already full with waitlists, while spots remain open in Industrial Mechanics and the Electrician program.

The ongoing wildfire situation in Northern Saskatchewan has seen some progress as rain has come down and fires are cooling off. As of Wednesday, the province's fire ban covering much of the northern part of the province has also been lifted.

Vice President of the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) Steve Roberts says that what were once the three most intense fires in the province, the Wolf, Shoe, and Ditch fires, are now all considered contained. This means they aren’t expected to grow, but they aren’t necessarily out.