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With less than a year to go until the 2026 World Cup, political tensions and U.S. policy threaten to pose problems as Canada, the United States and Mexico prepare to co-host the tournament.

Next year’s FIFA World Cup will be the biggest ever, with the three countries hosting a record 48 teams. Between June 11 and July 19, they will play 104 matches, most of them in the U.S.

Avery Shenfeld doesn't think the Bank of Canada will cut its benchmark interest rate at its decision on Wednesday, but if it does, he said it will be a "pleasant surprise."

"There's always a chance that they'll surprise with the rate cut," the chief economist of CIBC said.

Most economists are also expecting the Bank of Canada will hold its policy rate steady at 2.75 per cent for a third consecutive decision later this week.

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a request to hear an appeal from Achter Land and Cattle regarding an earlier court decision that found a thumbs-up emoji served as an agreement to a grain contract. South West Terminal launched a claim for damages after Achter Land and Cattle failed to deliver on the contract.

The Saskatchewan NDP says despite the Premier’s nonchalant attitude towards the trade war with the U.S., the province’s exports are beginning to take a hit.

The Opposition’s release says last week, “Moe suggested a strategy of pandering to Trump rather than keeping our ‘elbows up’ as other Canadian Premiers are doing.”

Now, Statistics Canada data indicates that there has been a 9.4 per cent reduction in Saskatchewan exports to the U.S. over the first five months of 2025, dropping from $2,388,894 in January to $1,776,630 in May.

Saskatchewan’s Healthy Beaches report is indicating that swimming is not advised at four of the province’s waterbodies.

Sunnyside Beach near Prince Albert National Park has an advisory for E. coli, as does Rowan’s Ravine Provincial Park Main Beach Area, as well as Buffalo Pound Provincial Park Beach.

There is also a cautionary notice for algae blooms present at Kipabiskau Beach near Tisdale.

The rest of the province’s beaches remain safe

The Canadian Nurses Association says it hopes the new "united Team Canada" approach at the Council of the Federation will lead to harmonization of nurses' licences across the country.

The association was among a number of health-care advocacy groups at the recent annual meeting of Canada's premiers.

While health care tends to take centre stage when the premiers meet, this year's gathering with Prime Minister Mark Carney was dominated by discussion of U.S. President Donald Trump's global trade war.

Most Canadians believe the country is making good progress on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, a new poll from Leger suggests.

"The extent to which people feel progress on reconciliation is being made or not has an important bearing on how they feel about the country," said Jack Jedwab, president and CEO of the Association for Canadian Studies, which commissioned the poll.

The survey of 1,580 respondents was conducted between June 20 and 22. A margin of error cannot be associated to the survey because online polls are not considered to be truly random samples.

With the proliferation of AI technology and the use of farms, a new meaning is coming to the phrase “smart farming”. Technology is becoming more and more part of the work for producers, with many of the latest innovations on display at farm shows, such as Ag In Motion last week. While there aren’t any autonomous operations in place that he knows of, Weyburn-area farmer Dale Paslawski knows that the embracing of more technology in the field is inevitable. 

This summer has been a busy construction season in east central Saskatchewan. The ongoing Highway 5 project from Saskatoon continues, as does work on Highway 2 north of Highway 16.  With all of the construction that is happening, the province’s Minister of Highways, David Marit, is reminding drivers to slow down, exercise caution, and obey all the signage in work zones.