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‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate

‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate

Sep 23, 2024 | 8:22am
WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower. The skyscraper-like corn is a part of rural America as much as cavernous red barns and placid cows. […]
Harrison: Time to fix Canada’s broken immigration system

Harrison: Time to fix Canada’s broken immigration system

Sep 22, 2024 | 7:18am
SASKATOON — Canada’s immigration program for asylum seekers remains an issue the provincial government wants to continue discussions on with Ottawa, with Minister of Immigration and Career Training Jeremy Harrison pushing the federal government to introduce reforms to prevent further strain on each jurisdiction’s services. Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada states that persons can seek […]
Sask Party hits back at Saskatchewan NDP

Sask Party hits back at Saskatchewan NDP

Sep 20, 2024 | 6:42am
SASKATOON — The Saskatchewan Party has indicated it will continue to focus on what it has done for the province rather than engage its opponents in the usual rhetoric this election season. The provincial election is set for Monday, Oct. 28. Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe challenged the Saskatchewan NDP to inform the provincial residents […]
Shawn Bane Jr. admits Riders ‘needed to be screamed at’ after lacklustre practice

Shawn Bane Jr. admits Riders ‘needed to be screamed at’ after lacklustre practice

Sep 19, 2024 | 8:42am
Saskatchewan Roughriders’ receiver Shawn Bane Jr. felt the statements made by head coach Corey Mace on Tuesday were deserved. “We probably needed to be screamed at a little bit. Sometimes it takes that just for you to get refocused. Sometimes depending on the moment in your life, you need a refocus, and that was just […]
Creating a film about the RCAF’s history was emotional, director says

Creating a film about the RCAF’s history was emotional, director says

Sep 19, 2024 | 8:20am
MOOSE JAW — Filmmaker Robert (Bob) Barrett spent nearly two years making a documentary about the Royal Canadian Air Force’s history, and one thing he discovered was its personnel are high-calibre role models for their communities. The Toronto-based documentarian began shooting “Wings of Honour: A Century of the Royal Canadian Air Force” in 2022, where […]
Saskatchewan Roughrider fans aren’t ‘fine’ with Miles Brown discipline

Saskatchewan Roughrider fans aren’t ‘fine’ with Miles Brown discipline

Sep 18, 2024 | 2:24pm
Saskatchewan Roughrider defensive lineman Miles Brown is lighter in the pocketbook for the second time in as many weeks.   The 27-year-old made contact with Winnipeg quarterback Chris Streveler on a second and short play late in the third quarter of the Labour Day rematch on September 7. On the play, Streveler lined up under […]
Where the provincial race stands as the horses head to the gate

Where the provincial race stands as the horses head to the gate

Sep 18, 2024 | 8:58am
REGINA – The horses are coming up to the starting gate, but how are things looking with respect to a provincial election? Sask Today spoke to Tom McIntosh, Professor on Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina, about where things stand right now in provincial politics. It is a unique time in provincial […]
‘We didn’t meet expectations’: Corey Mace halts Riders practice twice to send messages

‘We didn’t meet expectations’: Corey Mace halts Riders practice twice to send messages

Sep 18, 2024 | 8:27am
Saskatchewan Roughriders’ head coach Corey Mace did not like his team’s effort at practice on Tuesday. “We didn’t meet our expectations,” Mace said. “That’s something I think is my job to hold everybody to that expectation.” Mace stopped practice on two separate occasions, once on the field and the second time he sent the team to the locker room for a […]

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