Now here’s a headline we haven’t seen in a while. Saskatoon is experiencing a full-on building boom of premium office space. To a degree, this is stating the obvious for anyone who has been in the Bridge City’s downtown core lately. But, it is …
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Clear Your Head with Some Combine Time
We’re about to begin the greatest thinking period in Saskatchewan’s year. Harvest. In a digital age where information is free flowing: sometimes accurate, sometimes fake, it is often hard for most of us – but leaders especially – to find the time …
Discretionary Spending Continues to Rise
The month of May brought a reduction in retail spending but it also saw an increase in expenditures at restaurants and bars. So, it seems consumers are still spending they’re just shifting their buying habits. When retail sales were reported …
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Internationally-Recognized Medical Research Underway in Saskatoon
There’s promising research into a disease that is devastating the hog industry in China going on at the VIDO-InterVac facility in Saskatoon. The disease has claimed half the country’s breeding herd and could send global pork prices …
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A Bump on the Retail Road
Saskatchewan consumers took a little break in May. After several months of steady or strengthening retail spending, we saw a reversal in May as total revenues in this sector fell by three-quarters of a point in the month. That is also down about …
Bravo Cameco
It’s been a good run for Saskatoon-based Cameco. The uranium mining giant recently won a court case with the Canada Revenue Agency, one where the panel sided completely with the company. At stake was tax on hundreds of millions of dollars. The …
Vendasta Secures Large Financing for Saskatoon Expansion
Saskatoon technology firm Vendasta has emerged as one of the flagships of the province’s technology community. And it strengthened that position this week with the announcement that it has secured $40 million in venture capital to expand its client …
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Seeking Your Future Leaders
We’re in a time when succession planning has never been more important. In the next twelve months, the baby boom generation will be replaced by millennials as the largest cohort in the workplace. So….the transition is on. But how do you develop …
New Vehicle Sales Trend Building Momentum
After more than a year of steadily declining sales of new cars and trucks, motor vehicle dealers in this province are now enjoying a trend in the other direction. It’s been three months since this reversal of fortune. Back in February we saw …
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Discretionary Spending Remains Solid
It turns out we still like heading out for a beer. One of the key metric in assessing consumer confidence or to the test the mood of the average citizen is discretionary spending. And nowhere is that easier to test than in the local restaurant or …
