It will likely cost Saskatchewan natural gas customers less to heat their homes this winter. SaskEnergy last week proposed a rate decrease, just as people prepare to turn on their furnaces. The crown utility applied to the Saskatchewan Rate Review Panel to adjust its commodity rate from $5.21 per gigajoule to $4.55, as of Nov. […] Read more
Karen Briere
Stories by Karen Briere
Receiver open to offers on Sask. feedlot assets
The assets of a Saskatchewan feedlot are on the block after falling victim to tough times in the cattle sector. Pipestone Feeders Ltd. of Grenfell opened in 2002 and emptied for the last time in April when it went into receivership. It had capacity for 10,000 head. The receiver, BDO Canada Ltd., is accepting written […] Read more
Weather batters Viterra earnings
Lower seeded acreage and wet weather contributed to a 47 percent drop in year-over-year quarterly earnings, Canada’s largest grain handler said last week. Viterra Inc. reported net income of $63.5 million for its third quarter ending July 31, compared to $120.7 million in the same quarter last year. Year-to-date earnings were $93 million, compared to […] Read more
NDP leader confident party will save gun registry
Federal NDP leader Jack Layton says enough of his MPs will side with him on the long gun registry next week that the registry will be saved.Speaking to reporters in Regina, where the NDP caucus is meeting today and tomorrow, Layton said rural MPs are supporting his approach to the controversial bill.He had asked his […] Read more
Sask. NDP still at odds with federal NDP on long gun registry
Saskatchewan’s NDP will continue to disagree with the federal party about the long gun registry.The provincial party has since 1995 opposed federal gun control legislation and even took Ottawa to court over it.Federal NDP leader Jack Layton in Regina last week said enough of his MPs would vote Sept. 22 to save the registry so […] Read more
Moose Jaw plant to reopen as Thunder Creek Pork in Dec.
Renovations and upgrades are proceeding as planned at the newly named Thunder Creek Pork. The Moose Jaw, Sask., pork plant, known most recently as Moose Jaw Pork Packers, is expected to open in mid-December. Tony Martinez, vice-president of Donald’s Fine Foods/Britco Pork, said the new owners had originally picked River Valley Pork but that name […] Read more
Farmers give harvest to feed less fortunate
Murray Gogel believes in giving back to his community and helping those less fortunate. And while those are good reasons that anyone might offer to explain the donation of the proceeds from 40 acres of red lentils to a Regina organization, he has another important motive. “There’s a spiritual component,” he said. “Jesus Christ has […] Read more
Homeowners seek greater setback from wind towers
Residents worried that the turbines in a $60 million wind farm near Moosomin, Sask., will be too close to their homes are applying to the courts for changes. Work is already underway on the Red Lily Wind Farm but stopped Aug. 27 under an interim injunction. On Sept. 1, a Saskatoon judge allowed work to […] Read more
Visitors were big spenders at Farm Progress Show
Visitors to Regina’s Western Canada Farm Progress Show in June spent a lot of money, according to data collected at the 2010 show. A survey of 1,067 people found that, as a result of the show, buyers spent between $185 million and $380 million on items worth more than $5,000, including tractors, combines and other […] Read more
Sask. hires think-tank to analyze PotashCorp deal
The Conference Board of Canada will analyze the possible takeover of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. The provincial government had said it wanted an independent opinion of a takeover after Australia’s BHP Billiton last month launched a hostile bid for the world’s largest potash producer. Energy and resource minister Bill Boyd announced Sept. 2 the […] Read more
