Dangerous wind chills of minus 40 or colder have prompted Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) to issue an extreme cold warning for Regina and much of southern Saskatchewan.

According to ECCC’s website, the sub minus 40 wind chills are expected for the “next few days,” along with overnight lows in the minus 30 range.

Moose Jaw, Swift Current, Yorkton, Weyburn and Estevan are also included in the warning that extends into Saskatoon and central Saskatchewan.

Temperatures are expected to moderate for most by Thursday, ECCC says.

“Snow pushing in from the United States will likely keep regions between the international border and the Trans-Canada Highway above extreme cold thresholds Tuesday morning. However, areas to the north, in the vicinity of the Yellowhead, will continue with the bitterly cold temperatures into Wednesday morning,” ECCC said on its website on Monday.

Current advisories can be read here.

Regina is expecting a high of minus 24 on Monday, according to ECCC’s morning forecast.

The normal daytime high for Feb. 3 is about minus nine.

Saskatchewan’s premier urged de-escalation in the looming trade war with the United States, one day before a sweeping 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods was set to take effect.

However, later in the day Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the tariff on all Canadian goods was going to be delayed for 30 days, after multiple conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump. According to Trudeau, it was the two leaders first time speaking since Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20.

In a press conference Monday morning, Premier Scott Moe expressed dismay at seeing the decades of relatively free trade on the continent come under threat, and a willingness to placate the American President with a proposal to beef up security at the border by placing Canadian Forces troops along the 49th parallel.

“What do we need to do as we move forward,” Moe asked, saying he’s called on Canada’s intergovernmental affairs minister Dominic Leblanc to reconsider the retaliatory tariffs.

“If we find ourselves in a broad tariff war, or trade war, where everything that is flowing north and south is subject to tariffs, Canadians will lose,” he said. “We are an exporting province, and we are an exporting nation, and we should not be heading that direction.”

Moe says he’s heading to Washington this week, and he hoped to see Canada negotiate an extension on the imposition of tariffs like the one announced for Mexico earlier in the day.

“We have to implore on one individual; one individual — President Trump — that seems bent on using these tariffs in some way, shape or form, to destabilize the investment environment that we have in North America, to destabilize the energy and food security that we have been able to acquire in North America over the course of the last number of decades and maybe even the century, and the significant role that Saskatchewan plays in this,” said Moe.

“The North American integrated economy across that 49th parallel is no accident,” he said.

While he lamented the use of tariffs as a political tool, Moe seemed to agree with Trump on the issue of border security.

The premier suggested pulling the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) under the umbrella of the military so troops can be placed along the border and allowing the CBSA’s current budget to be counted toward the country’s military funding commitments.

“It’s not about obeying … But changing the mind of one individual,” said Moe.

“This is a beneficial relationship, and has proven to be, for many, many decades.”

A proposed property tax increase of 8.5 per cent is part of the initial 2025 City of Regina budget up for consideration.

The preliminary budget was released Monday in an online agenda for an Executive Committee meeting set for Wednesday.

The preliminary increase of 8.5 per cent is equivalent to $204 more per year ($17/month) for the average assessed residential property, according to the city.

A proposed utility rate increase of 5.82 per cent was also announced. The city says that would be $116 more per year ($10/month) for the average home. Brining the combined total proposed increase to 14.32 per cent.

The average assessed residential property is valued at $315,000 and the average utility account uses 15 cubic meters of water per month ($131/month), the city said.

“A number of factors contributed to the [proposed] increase in the preliminary mill rate and utility rate,” the agenda report read. “Notably, several capital investments in crucial infrastructure, which have been deferred for years, must be addressed to provide needed services to the community.”

“Further, service partners such as Regina Police Service (RPS) have requested funding increases from the City,” it added.

One of the country’s most wanted fugitives was arrested in Saskatoon on Friday on a Canada-wide warrant for homicide.

Jabreel Elmi, 30, was arrested by Saskatoon police in an apartment in the 10 block of Assiniboine Drive on Friday. In a news release Monday, the Saskatoon Police Service said it executed the search warrant on behalf of an outside agency.

Elmi, who was number 24 on the Bolo Program’s 25 most wanted fugitives list, was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for a 2021 homicide in Toronto.

Grocery shopping has become a new battle ground in the developing trade war with the United States.

A “Buy Canadian” movement is sweeping the nation after U.S. President Donald Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs on most Canadian goods, that were schedule to come into effect on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to social media Monday afternoon saying after a phone call with Trump, the proposed tariffs have been paused for 30 days.

In the meantime, grocery shoppers CTV News spoke to say they’re making a conscious effort to check where their products come from.

“I have been looking for Canadian labels, of course,” Jim Abel told CTV News.

“As Canadians we have to stick up for ourselves.”

“I think what you need to do is just look and see online what is Canadian, and just go and buy Canadian stuff,” Shawn Melkert said.

Many people are taking to social media to recommend Canadian–made alternatives to American products.

Jason Aebig, CEO of Saskatoon’s Chamber of Commerce, says it can be difficult for a consumer to determine if a product is Canadian-made, since the Canadian and American supply chains are highly integrated.

“There are products that will cross the border several times before they get to the end state,” Aebig said in an interview with CTV News.

“A part or a component is done in Canada, it is shipped to the U.S. for the next piece, and then the last piece is put on in Canada. And as a result, it’s country of origin labeling may be a Canadian-made product, even though it would have traversed the border several times.”

Aebig notes there has been a push for retailers to highlight Canadian-made products on their shelves to help eliminate the guesswork for shoppers.

He also said small businesses and consumers will likely see the impacts of the tariffs immediately.

“It’s really our smallest service and retail businesses that are going to feel it, and the consumers of those businesses,” he said.

“Virtually all of them will rely in one way, shape, or form on U.S. inventory or inputs to deliver what they do. And if those are more costly, frankly, they’ll have no choice but to pass those higher costs onto consumers, because they don’t have the margins or the capacity to absorb those higher costs.”

Aebig said trade wars often result in “significant losses” for both sides.

Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault

A judge will decide if a Warman, Sask. man who broke into a woman’s condo and sexually assaulted her, should be added to the national sex offender registry.

On June 3, 2019, Joseph Yaremko forced his way into a random woman’s condo in Saskatoon’s Stonebridge neighbourhood while trying to run from police.

Yaremko threatened the woman with a knife, sexually assaulted her multiple times and forced her to do drugs, court heard.

The woman, who was 21 at the time, was eventually able to escape and call police.

On Dec. 23, 2021, a judge found Yaremko guilty of sexual assault with a weapon and forcible confinement.

Residents of the Glen Elm Mobile Home Community in east Regina are sharing their concerns after several people received a notice, informing them that they have until April to move out of their homes.

Hanna Kervel has been a resident of the community for 27 years. She is concerned for her neighbors having to pack up and leave on such short notice.

“Some of the homes are beautiful, but I don’t think you’re going to be able to sell it,” she said.

Canada and the United States appear to have avoided a costly tariff war for now after leaders of both countries found some common ground during a call on Monday.

The tariffs have been delayed for 30 days, according to a post on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s X account.

U.S. President Donald Trump had ordered 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports, with the exception of energy, which would be subject to a 10 per cent tariff. In response, Trudeau announced counter tariffs on $30 billion in American goods, primed to rise to $155 billion later this month.

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