The City of Regina is cutting back on mosquito control measures this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to the health crisis, Mayor Michael Fougere said earlier this month that the city was facing between $7.7- $20.7 million in losses, depending on when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Instead of proactively treating bodies of water, […]
Saskatchewan NDP leader Ryan Meili wants frontline workers in the province to receive a wage top-up. Specifically, he feels low-income essential workers who are at a significant risk during the pandemic should be receiving a “much-deserved raise” while putting in long hours and extra work in stressful circumstances. Meili hopes the province can ensure they are not leaving […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nearly 10,000 businesses have applied for the federal government’s wage-subsidy program to help them deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergency measure will cover 75 per cent of wages for employers that have seen sharp declines in revenue since the novel coronavirus hit Canada hard in March, up to $847 […]
University of Regina Political Scientist Jim Farney believes it is in the governments best interest to hold some sort of sitting this spring. Since the COVID-19 concerns in Saskatchewan began, the province has not held any sort of sitting, which is the longest stretch of any provincial government in Canada. Farney said the Sask Party and opposition […]
A COVID-19 vaccine created at the University of Saskatchewan’s VIDO-Intervac has tested safe in two ferrets. VIDO Intervac Director Dr. Volker Gerdts says they used the prototype vaccine on the ferrets twice and there were no issues. He says these are very positive results, with the next step being to actually infect the ferrets with […]
Canadian companies that have been struggling to keep paying their workers during the COVID-19 pandemic can begin to apply for Ottawa’s wage subsidy program on Monday. The $73-billion aid package will provide qualifying companies with a 75 per cent subsidy going toward each worker’s wages, with the government asking to top up the remaining […]
The 50th edition of the Canadian Western Agribition is scheduled to take place November 30th- December 5th, 2020, at Evraz Place, and organizers of the event are planning for business as usual, despite concerns over COVID-19. Agribition CEO Chris Lane says it’s important to keep planning until otherwise told not to. “There’s a lot of […]
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, gas prices around the world are at their lowest point in more than a decade. Dan McTeague, the President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, says the cause of the price drop is a combination of a couple of things. The first thing is an extreme drop in demand. […]
The province says four new cases of COVID-19 have been reported on Sunday bringing the total of cases to 353. Of the four new cases, three are from the far north with the other one in Regina. Of the 61 active cases in the province, 32 are in the far north while nine are in […]
A Regina man has been bringing smiles to his neighbours during the COVID-29 pandemic. Graeme Parson sets up his “pun-demic” board at the end of his driveway daily, which features a dad joke, or a pun, to try and cheer up people passing by. Parsons says when he started the idea, he couldn’t have imagined […]
