Pratyush Dayal

International students and advocacy groups in Canada say Ottawa’s temporary removal of the cap on hours the students can work off campus each week should be made permanent.

Saskatchewan could be the location for the new biggest uranium mining project in Canada. NexGen Energy is the first company in more than 20 years to receive full provincial environmental assessment approval for a greenfield uranium project in Saskatchewan.

Critics say Saskatchewan and Canada should ban fur farming for public health reasons and to prevent cruelty, but a pro-fur advocate says the industry is a proud Canadian tradition and an important part of the country’s economy.

Jignesh Padia has been trying to relocate his mother permanently from the U.K. to Regina for the past seven years, but the wait seems endless. Ottawa says the backlog of applications like Padia’s sits “under 76,000.”

In speaking with community organizations, CBC News found that Canada’s drug crisis is affecting a largely unchecked population of users – newcomers – and we don’t even know how severe the issue is. Now, experts are calling not only for better data collection, but also more attention to the realities that lead newcomers to use drugs, and culturally-specific care that could help them escape it.

Many people who shared a meal of bear meat, harvested from northern Saskatchewan, at a family gathering in South Dakota were infected with trichinellosis, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Experts say it’s a common occurrence in wild meat.

The Saskatoon non-profit helped at-risk youth through art and employment opportunities, and created more than 60 large-scale mural projects since its inception in 2001, including along Broadway and on the parkade wall of St. Paul's Hospital.

Overall, farmers are reporting great harvests because it was a year without heat domes, extreme flooding or early frosts, which have ruined harvests in the past. But the uncertainty of climate change lingers.

In the past decade, cities in Canada including Essex have lost weeks' worth of winter snow days each year due to climate change. They've been replaced by dozens of days of rain, melt and mud, according to a new analysis by Climate Central, a climate research and communications non-profit.

Fewer international students made their way to Windsor and Canada this year due to the recent immigration changes. That is having an impact on the local businesses that depended on them historically.