Business & Investment, Construction, Economic Indicators, Economic Sectors, Immigration, Investment, Jobs
December 11, 2012
New numbers from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation show the province’s urban housing starts were up 53.6 per cent in November 2012 over November 2011. This landed Saskatchewan in first place among the provinces in terms of percentage growth, well ...
Business & Investment, Economic Indicators, Economic Sectors, Immigration, Jobs, Quality of Life
December 11, 2012
There were 948,055 hits on the saskjobs.ca website in November 2012. This was an increase of 17.6 per cent from November 2011. Employers posted a total of 14,035 jobs on saskjobs.ca in November, which was an increase of 4.0 per ...
Business & Investment, Economic Indicators, Economic Sectors, Investment, Trade & Export
December 11, 2012
Saskatchewan is number two in the country for merchandising exports for the first 11 months of the year, compared to the same time last year. According to new numbers from Statistics Canada, exports increased 10.1 per cent over that time ...
Business & Investment, Economic Sectors, Innovation, Investment, Mining, Post-Secondary Education, Quality of Life, R & D, Trade & Export
December 06, 2012
When four patients wandered away from one Alberta hospital over a two week period last August, the event sparked massive police and volunteer searches. Closer to home, when a 77-year-old man disappeared from a Regina-area care home late last year, ...
Business & Investment, Economic Sectors, Innovation, Investment, Trade & Export
December 04, 2012
Regina start-up Ten Tree Apparel is riding a rocket. In the eight-month period since launching in January 2012, the clothing company that plants 10 trees for every item sold put more than 100,000 saplings into the ground. Partners Kalen Emsley ...