May 2 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — Saskatchewan's Opposition says the government needs to share more of the wealth coming in from oil prices that continue to surge above what was forecast in the budget. The NDP is urging the Saskatchewan Party government to raise royalty rates by one per cent when benchmark oil prices exceed US$90 a barrel. Finance […]
Apr 28 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — An Independent member of the legislature has revived a 20-year-old scandal involving the Saskatchewan Party to show her concerns about a bill that aims to reform legislative security. Nadine Wilson suggested in the house Thursday that history could be repeated and staff spied on should the bill aimed at having security officers report […]
Apr 19 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Hospitals across Canada are facing a resurgence of patients with COVID-19 that some health officials say will likely continue for another month. Latest data from the Public Health Agency of Canada shows hospitalizations due to COVID-19 rose about 18 per cent across Canada between April 4 and April 11 — to 6,020 people needing beds. […]
Apr 11 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — Christine Enns said she was shocked when a rapid test showed she had tested positive for COVID-19. Enns, who received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine and a booster shot, already had the virus in early February and thought reinfection was rare. "I started feeling sick three to four days ago thinking, 'This feels […]
Apr 4 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — A new survey suggests Canadians are becoming more divided, with some saying issues have led them to reduce contact with friends or family. The national phone survey by the Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research at the University of Saskatchewan was done between March 7 and March 24. It asked 1,011 people […]
Apr 4 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — A new survey suggests more Canadians are becoming divided, with some saying issues have led them to reduce contact with friends or family. The national phone survey by the Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research at the University of Saskatchewan was done between March 7 and March 24. It asked 1,011 people […]
Apr 2 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — Dickson Delorme, who farms near the town of Foam Lake, Sask., says he stockpiled fuel weeks ago to prepare for the federal carbon tax increase. With seeding season about to start, many Saskatchewan farmers are looking to save where they can, as inflation, rising fuel and fertilizer prices and last year's near-record drought […]
Mar 23 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — Working out or going to a professional football game could cost more this fall with proposed new taxes outlined in Saskatchewan's budget. Starting in October, the province plans to add the six per cent provincial sales tax to admissions fees and entertainment, including Saskatchewan Roughriders CFL games, other sporting events, concerts, museums, rodeos […]
Mar 23 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — Working out or going to a professional football game could cost more this fall with proposed new taxes outlined in Saskatchewan's budget. Starting in October, the province plans to add the six per cent provincial sales tax to admissions fees and entertainment, including Saskatchewan Roughriders CFL games, other sporting events, concerts, museums, rodeos […]
Mar 5 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Yvonne Mirasty was nine years old when she was taken. "When my mom got home from work, we were gone." Along with her siblings, Mirasty was placed in the Timber Bay Children's Home, which the Northern Canada Evangelical Mission and later the Brethren in Christ Church ran between 1952 to 1994. The home in the […]
Feb 15 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — KEESEEKOOSE FIRST NATION — A First Nation in eastern Saskatchewan says it has found 54 potential graves believed to hold the remains of children who attended two former residential schools. Members of the Keeseekoose First Nation held each other and wept Tuesday as photos were revealed one by one of the locations from a ground-penetrating […]
Feb 9 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — Colin Hall's business was one of the first in Saskatchewan to require customers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination last summer. The co-owner of Bodhi Tree Yoga in Regina said he wanted to keep his customers safe and he knew governments, including Saskatchewan, would soon follow with their own policies. But come Monday, […]
Feb 8 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — Saskatchewan is lifting all of its pandemic public health orders in a phased approach that is to begin Monday with the removal of its COVID-19 vaccine passport policy. At the end of the month, it also plans to end its indoor mask mandate and the requirement for people to self-isolate if they test […]
Jan 31 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — Premier Scott Moe says Saskatchewan's proof of vaccination against COVID-19 has run its course, but he wouldn't commit Monday to removing the requirement before the public health order expires at the end of the month. Moe said the government doesn't make decisions overnight, but discusses them with health officials who provide input. "Looking […]
Jan 18 2022 — Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — REGINA — The Saskatchewan Health Authority says health-care services may be interrupted in the weeks ahead when a tide of COVID-19 hospitalizations and absenteeism among workers is expected to hit. Derek Miller, the authority's interim chief operating officer, says health teams are putting together plans for service slowdowns that could affect surgeries. In the first […]