Western Standard News Update | Saskatchewan spends nearly $300,000 on fake rocks | 28 Jul 2026

In this Western Standard News Update, Chief Editor Dave Naylor covers an incredible survival story after a hiker impaled himself with a trekking pole on Montana’s highest peak and still hiked 10 miles to safety. Naylor also looks at Ontario completing its Etobicoke transmission line under budget and on time, a Queen’s Park report on Doug Ford’s premiership, Ottawa’s $15-million monument to sexual minorities launching in August, and Saskatchewan spending nearly $300,000 on three large fake plastic rocks.