Eligible lower-income workers helping Saskatchewan’s most vulnerable citizens through the COVID-19 pandemic can now apply to the Saskatchewan Temporary Wage Supplement Program. For each eligible worker, the temporary wage supplement is $400 for each four-week period, up to 16 weeks, for the period from March 15, 2020 to July 4, 2020. To be eligible, a […]
Saskatchewan’s drive-in theatres are opening before the start of the May long weekend ahead of the province’s second phase of their reopen plan scheduled for May 19. One of those theatres – the Prairie Dog Drive-In located in Carlyle – is kicking off their opening with a few changes that follow the province’s public health measures. […]
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has declared the outbreak at the Meadow Lake hospital to be over. The outbreak was declared on May 6th after a staff member had tested positive for COVID-19 through community-transmission. The regional medical health officer for the area says no cases were found in the area over the last 10 days, […]
With a COVID-19 case announced at Regina’s Pasqua Hospital on Thursday, the President of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses says it’s troubling that no outbreak situation was declared. Tracy Zambory said the patient who tested positive was moved around the hospital numerous times, and could have come into contact with as many as 100 people […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau started his speech on Friday morning from Ottawa about an extension to the Canada Wage Subsidy Program to help Canadians regain or keep employment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau confirmed that the program will be extended by another three months to the end of August. “Business owners: please take confidence from […]
RCMP say an officer suffered non life-threatening injuries after being shot in a rural area north of Biggar. Just before midnight on Thursday, officers were about to conduct a search warrant at a residence in a rural area 27 kilometres north of Biggar, when shots were fired in their direction and the officer was hit. […]
SGEU is calling on the provincial government to cover the pay for front-line workers that need to go into self-isolation. The union says at this time, workers are using their sick leave when their employers instruct them to go on self-isolation. In most cases, that would eat up two-thirds’ of the employee’s sick leave for […]
A Saskatchewan mayor says he was left shocked after his community was given less than 48-hours notice that their emergency room would be temporarily closing as part of response planning for the COVID-19 pandemic. Tyler Alexander said he was told Tuesday morning that emergency services would be suspended Thursday at the hospital in Davidson, a […]
Regina has its first reported case of COVID-19 since April 28. The case is one of five new ones (4 in La Loche) in Saskatchewan bringing the provincial total to 582 with 178 cases considered active. In addition, 13 people have recovered bringing the total to 398. As for the Regina case, the individual is […]
Four students at the University of Regina have been busy sewing masks for charity. SaskMasks started as a Facebook and Instagram initiative, but once word got out as to what the four were doing, the demand grew. Robyn Ham is a co-founder of SaskMasks and says they quickly had to adapt once word got out […]
