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Saskatchewan producers will benefit from major enhancements to the AgriStability program for the 2025 program year, aimed at strengthening support amid trade uncertainty and ongoing drought conditions.

Federal, provincial, and territorial agriculture ministers met virtually last week and agreed to increase the compensation rate from 80 per cent to 90 per cent, and doubled the maximum payment cap from $3 million to $6 million per operation.

Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Daryl Harrison announced the changes yesterday on a farm at Rush Lake.

The Town of Watrous and the Resort Village of Manitou Beach continue to use their Facebook sites to post closure notices for the Watrous Hospital’s emergency department. 

The SHA has issued a statement that the emergency service in Watrous is once again closed, the time from 4:00 pm to midnight on July 22. Patients are advised to reroute to Royal University Hospital or the Humboldt Hospital. 

Saskatchewan is moving forward in its efforts to reduce or eliminate interprovincial trade barriers with a pair of agreements. 

Premier Scott Moe and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew signed off on a memorandum of understanding designed to enhance interprovincial trade.  

In its 2025 operational review, mining giant BHP announced a delay in entering production and for its proposed second phase startup at its Jansen potash site.  

The company, whose first venture into potash production is at the Jansen site, estimates its capital expenditure to have risen to the $7 to $7.4 billion US range, up from its original estimate of $5.7 billion. That’s part of the decision for the return to the original schedule for first production of mid-2027 as opposed to the final quarter of 2026.  

Dayna Brons was a remarkable young woman who dedicated her career to looking after the well-being of others through athletic therapy and support. Her love of sport, her family, her community and her Humboldt Broncos charges were well known. 

Local resident Alyssa Hergott stepped up in a big way over the last week, volunteering her time and efforts to support firefighting and relief operations amid the ongoing wildfires in northern Saskatchewan. 

She returned on Sunday after helping for a week. 

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The founding CEO of the five-year-old organization will stay on until January 2026

Seeds Canada is looking for a new chief executive officer after Barry Senft announced he is stepping down from the role he’s held for about four years.

Senft will continue to serve as CEO until the end of January 2026.

“I think after five years, it’s time for new leadership,” he said during the 2025 Seeds Canada conference in Quebec City.

He said someone with more seeds experience would make sense now that the organization is up and running.

As five former Canadian world junior hockey players await a ruling in their sexual assault trial, legal experts say videos shown in court of the complainant saying she was OK with what had happened highlight a broader misunderstanding of consent and sexual assault law in Canada.

Two cellphone videos in which the woman says she’s “OK with this” and that “it was all consensual” were presented as evidence during the trial of Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, and Callan Foote.

Several Conservative MPs are criticizing the Crown's approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the Freedom Convoy protests, with the party's deputy leader calling it an act of "political vengeance."

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief in April for their roles in organizing the demonstration, which blockaded streets around Parliament Hill for more than three weeks in early 2022.

Barber was also convicted of counselling others to disobey a court order.