Estevan

The federal riding of Terrebonne in Quebec has gone from the Liberals' win column back to the Bloc Québécois after a postelection vote validation process.

Bloc candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, who had represented the riding since 2021, said in a social media post that she came out with a lead of 44 votes and that a judicial recount will take place.

"For someone to be officially elected, you have to wait until the end of this process," Sinclair-Desgagné wrote in French. "I hope to have the honour of representing Terrebonne again in the coming years."

The housing market in Estevan is still chugging along, with the first quarter of 2025 actually hosting some impressive results. That's according to RE/MAX Branch Manager Linda Mack, who says her data shows strong growth in house sales.

"I did look at the first quarter of the year, and we are definitely up in sales. It's been the busiest quarter I've had in ten years, so when I looked at Estevan and about a half-hour radius around the city, I would say we were up about 30% in sales."

After rain and snow have been on the forecast for April in the southeast, the first weekend of May is now shaping up to be very summer-like. Temperatures will be soaring up to the near 30-degree mark, and the sun will be shining over a couple of days.

While this morning we woke up to some thick fog, Environment and Climate Change Canada Meteorologist Stephen Berg says that won't last for too long.

Conservative MP Damien Kurek is set to step aside to allow Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to run in a byelection in the Battle River—Crowfoot riding in Alberta.

Kurek says he is "temporarily" stepping aside as MP for the riding, which he has held since 2019.

The Conservative party confirms that Poilievre will run in the Battle River—Crowfoot byelection once it's called.

The Eagle Sky Estevan Bruins have announced that Drew Kocur will be moving into the role of full-time head coach and general manager.

Kocur will be starting his third season with the team this year, after holding the position of assistant coach and interim head coach/GM since he first joined in 2023.

Bruins’ Club President, Riley Tetreault, said the organization “is thrilled to have Kocur at the helm as head coach and GM.”

Alberta

The St. Mary River Irrigation District (SMRID) is notifying irrigators that they are now accepting water orders.

For the 2025 irrigation season, water allocation will remain at 12 inches at the farm gate based on the recent Irrigation Water Supply Forecast from Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation.

Crews have started flushing lines and are charging the system for water startup, expected to be available across the entire district by May 5th to 9th.

Crime rates in rural communities are consistently higher than in urban centres, suggests new data presented in a Statistics Canada report -- a long-term trend one criminologist says is unsurprising.

The report, published Tuesday, found the rate of police-reported crime in rural Canadian communities was 34 per cent higher than the urban rate. That disparity was especially pronounced across the Prairies and in rural British Columbia.

In the last issue we discussed warm and cold clouds, and we learned that most of our local precipitation is produced in cold clouds, which means that most of it starts off as snow, even in the summer.

This week we are going to look at the different types of precipitation we experience and examine how each type forms.

Next on our list of precipitation types is sleet or ice pellets.

This form of precipitation is created when raindrops freeze in the air before they reach the ground.

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The federal election could change future policy that affects the southeast, even as most of the federal parties seem to be staying in the same place, with a minority Liberal government. For the City of Estevan, those changes could affect funding, regulations, and more.

Mayor Tony Sernick is a little disappointed that there's not a lot new following the election.