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SaskatchewanNorth American Helium has opened Canada's largest helium purification facility in southwest Saskatchewan. The Stewart Valley facility is expected to increase the province's annual helium output by 40 per cent. North American Helium says Stewart Valley facility is just the beginningLaura Gillis · CBC News · Posted: Oct 15, 2026 7:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 15Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The new helium purification facility in Stewart Valley, Sask., is the largest in Canada. It opened on Oct. 15, 2026. (Shawn Mullin/CBC)North American Helium has opened Canada's largest helium purification facility in southwest Saskatchewan. The new facility near Stewart Valley is set to produce approximately 73 million cubic feet of helium each year, the company says. That will increase Saskatchewan's annual helium output by more than 40 per cent, according to a release from the provincial Ministry of Energy and Resources.

A weather alert has been issued for Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton. Environment Canada has placed those three cities under a yellow frost advisory ahead of cold conditions overnight.

On Monday, Albertans vote on whether to stay in Canada or hold another binding referendum on quitting Canada. If the vote goes as polls suggest, a majority of Albertans will mark an X to stay in Confederation, and Premier Danielle Smith has said if that’s so, she expects everyone to accept it and move on. Leaders of the independence movement contest that. And political watchers are divided about whether separation — previously a fringe sentiment — will now be a prominent, permanent feature of Alberta’s political landscape, as in Quebec. Julian Castro-Rea, a political-science professor at the University of Alberta who studies the separation debates in Quebec and Alberta, believes as long as Alberta feels alienated from the Canadian capital — feeling that Ottawa benefits from Alberta’s resource economy without giving back — the movement will have fuel. “Even if the referendum is lost, the westernization will still be around, because it’s kind of a way which, traditionally, Albertans have related to the rest of Canada,” says Castro-Rea, who believes western alienation may remain indefinitely. Story continues below advertisement