The provincial government has announced illness in care procedures to keep students safe when returning to school in about two weeks time. Schools will need to identify a space that can be used as an isolation area for students or staff who show symptoms for COVID-19 while at the school and who can’t leave the […]
A person who has tested positive has visited several businesses last week in Regina while likely still infectious according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority. The person visited the Harbour Landing Walmart the morning of July 29th from 9 until 9:30. The person also visited Bismallah Halal meat and groceries and the Golden Mile Superstore on […]
A Tim Hortons restaurant in east Regina closed on Thursday after a staff member tested positive due to COVID-19. In a statement from the company, they say the location on 1490 Park Street is closing temporarily. They did not give the identity of the employee or the most recent hours they worked at the store. […]
The Saskatchewan NDP is asking the provincial government redo their homework. Leader Ryan Meili says the back to school plan doesn’t have enough clarity and puts the responsibility for reopening schools on the school divisions, so he is urging the government to revise and resubmit their plan. In the plan released on Tuesday, class sizes […]
All 27 of Saskatchewan’s school divisions have released their plans for a safe return to school. This comes after much criticism of the provincial government’s initial back-to-school plan released on Tuesday. For Regina Public Schools, the school division will be installing plexi-glass screens at administrative offices and similar spaces, and will also be supplying hand […]
The owner of the famous Moosehead Inn at Kenosee Lake says despite a COVID-19 transmission scare a couple of weeks ago, the resort village is still a safe place to unwind and enjoy the summer weather. Dale Orsted says this year has been financially difficult with a lack of tourists coming to his bar. Orsted […]
After Saskatchewan’s government expanded the front-line worker wage top-up to include staff at integrated care homes, three of Saskatchewan’s health care unions have come forward to say the funding falls short. CUPE local 5430 Vice President Pearl Blommaert says the funding still doesn’t include acute care workers across the province. Blommaert says this is about […]
The provincial government announced 17 more cases of COVID-19 on Saskatchewan Day Monday. Of those 17 cases, nine of them so far have been determined to be from Hutterite from colonies across Saskatchewan. Six of the new cases come from the south, while five were found in the central, four people in the north tested […]
MONTREAL — Air Transat plans to cancel all flights from Western Canada to sun destinations and the United States this winter, with refunds en route to customers — a policy 180 in the COVID-19 era. The airline is scrubbing all southbound routes that were slated to take off from Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria, […]
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is advising the public of possible COVID-19 exposures in northwest Saskatchewan. First, those who attended the post office in Leask, about an hour northwest of Saskatoon, from July 20th to the 24th are being asked to self-monitor for their symptoms or seek a testing referral after a confirmed COVID-19 positive case […]
