When Ottawa announced it would do something to help the ailing oil and gas industry in the wake of the COVID pandemic and subsequent price war, we were …
Oil Should be Included in Buy Local – Buy National Initiatives
The COVID pandemic has reinforced the reality of how deeply ingrained concepts such as global trade and just-in-time supply chains have become. And that …
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The Tech Behind Our Resilient Food Supply with Ag-West Bio
Today, we talked with Karen Churchill, Bev Stangeland, and Brad Bly of Ag-West Bio, Saskatchewan’s bioscience industry association and bioeconomy catalyst. In …
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Time to Enhance Financial Instruments for Local Government
Watching municipal governments around the province wrestle with budgets in the wake of the COVID19 outbreak, it is a stark reminder that the time is long past …
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Big Drop followed by Big Rebound
There is something of a consensus starting to build around what we can expect the provincial economy to do in the next year or two. In announcing the Bank of …
Biggest Economic Decline in History
We now have another update on the magnitude of damage COVID is causing the economy. These forecasts are going to be coming out frequently as the situation is …