Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government’s emergency wage-subsidy program will be extended beyond its early-June endpoint. The program covers 75 per cent of worker pay up to $847 a week to try to help employers keep employees on the job in the face of steep declines in revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says the most likely scenario for the league is a cancelled 2020 season during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ambrosie made the admission for the first time while testifying to a House of Commons standing committee on finance on Thursday. Ambrosie appeared via video during a panel on arts, culture, sports and charitable […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he does not agree that oil and gas in Canada is dead. Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet and Green parliamentary leader Elizabeth May both claim the oil price shock that has devastated Canada’s oil patch in recent weeks should be the final sign that the industry cannot and should not […]
Scott Friskie has been an optometrist for 25 years and says it is something that like many other occupations, you have to evolve with the current and latest innovations in the business, but he never thought he would have to experience something like this. Friskie and the staff at Spectrum Eye Centre on Star Lite […]
The Re-Open Saskatchewan plan has started. On Monday, Phase 1 of a five-phase plan to get the economy back on its feet got underway Monday as some medical services like dentistry and optometry resumed with conditions still attached as to what protocols must be adhered to. It is a day that the CEO of the […]
The five-phase plan to re-open Saskatchewan slowly begins Monday. That plan allows public access to previously restricted medical services: dentistry, optometry, physical therapy, optician services, podiatry, occupational therapy and chiropractic treatment. It also provides specific guidelines related to parks and campgrounds, boat launches, fishing and golf courses. On Friday, the government said that more information in the […]
It is very quiet at the Regina Airport these days. Regina Airport Authority President and CEO James Bogusz knew his facility would be hit hard when travel restrictions were announced by the federal government in mid-March, but the effects of that decision are now starting to show. “It’s very quiet in here right now.” Bogusz […]
The Petroleum Services Association of Canada has revised its 2020 Canadian drilling forecast to an almost 50-year record low of 3,100 oil and gas wells, a level not seen since 2,900 wells were drilled in 1972. PSAC interim CEO Elizabeth Aquin says more than $7 billion of capital investment in the energy sector has been […]
Cargill said Wednesday it will start to reopen its beef processing plant at High River, Alta. on Monday after the plant was forced to close down because hundreds of workers had become infected with the coronavirus. In a statement, Cargill said it would resume operations after a 14-day temporary shutdown, with one shift a day […]
Fears that crude oil prices slammed by a global economic “train wreck” will remain low for some time are forcing Calgary-based companies to write off billions of dollars in value from their oil and gas resources. Husky Energy Inc. announced a $1.7-billion first quarter loss on Wednesday, including impairments of $1.1 billion after tax due […]
