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Civil, respectful but still tough: Canada-U.S. trade under a Biden presidency
OTTAWA - Canada coped with nearly four years of Donald Trump rewriting or shredding the international trade rule book. But Canadian hope of a rosy return to rules-based bonhomie with its top trading p...
Oct 27, 2020
City of Saskatoon wraps up summer construction season
The City of Saskatoon is celebrating the end of another summer construction season highlighted by big projects. Wrapping up the two-year Sid Buckwold Bridge rehabilitation project two months early was...
Oct 22, 2020 (650 CKOM file photo)
Wood prices to drop, but will remain high into 2021 says homebuilder
A Saskatchewan home building company is predicting a reprieve from high wood prices by Christmas after COVID-19 caused a construction wood shortage across the country. "It's quite high, but we expect ...
Oct 14, 2020 (Warman Home Centre/Facebook)
Advocates call for change in housing fund after data shows skew to Ontario
VANCOUVER - A federal government fund providing financing for affordable housing projects needs to be rebuilt because it doesn't do enough to help provinces outside of Ontario, advocates say. Th...
Oct 09, 2020
Hearing over controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline resumes at B.C. Supreme Court
VANCOUVER - Arguments over the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for a natural gas pipeline in B.C. resumed in court on Friday with lawyers for Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs telli...
Oct 02, 2020
Infrastructure bank to invest $10 billion in priority areas for pandemic recovery
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic job...
Sep 30, 2020
'Not funny inside': Edmonton’s renovated, ridiculed library opens to the public
EDMONTON - Some Edmontonians who got a peek inside the city's new downtown library say it's what's inside that matters. The Stanley A. Milner Library opened its doors to the public Thursday, four year...
Sep 17, 2020
Vancouver airport upgrades stop as air travel declines because of COVID-19
RICHMOND, B.C. - The Vancouver Airport Authority is pulling the plug on some major infrastructure projects because it says the ongoing decline in air travel caused by the COVID-19 pandemic means ...
Sep 09, 2020
Construction complete on Sid Buckwold Bridge
A major Saskatoon construction project has come to a close. On Sunday, the Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge reopened to normal capacity. The work being done there lasted two years and costed $20 million. D...
Sep 06, 2020 (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Tech group makes pitch to Liberals as part of wider push to shape recovery plan
OTTAWA - A group of tech companies is making a pitch to the federal government to help startups grow as part of a COVID-19 recovery plan that Liberals are crafting, while some feminist groups are...
Sep 02, 2020
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