The cost of fuel has dipped a little bit in the last number of days and currently, we are seeing prices coming in around $1.22 per litre and there's a number of different factors to thank for that.

"The restart of the Petro-Can refinery in Edmonton, that has been down for quite some time, going back to the middle part of May," explained Dan McTeague, a Senior Petroleum Analyst with GasBuddy.com. "There was still shortness in supply. We've seen prices narrow a little bit, both as a result of that refinery fully coming back online and of course, we are also seeing some decreases in the price of oil. Down roughly about $5 a barrel."

Even though we got a slight dip, we are still higher than normal. Much higher actually.

"This time last year you were low at a dollar a litre and right now, of course, you're looking between a $1.18 and a $1.25 so you're much higher and that's not just true for Saskatchewan, the entire country's [high now]," McTeague said.

Thanks to a global trade war, we can blame that for having higher and higher prices, especially with the dollar down.

"Of course because Canada absolutely refuses to send enough oil to sell it globally, we're taking major discounts on our oil which in turn is leading to a weaker Candian dollar," McTeague said. "Let's not forget that we price all our commodities, like gasoline, in US dollars. So weaker dollar despite higher oil means that Canadians lose their purchasing power."

We usually see gas prices change before a long weekend, but we'll have to see if that stays true for the August long weekend coming up.