The Government of Saskatchewan is providing one-time emergency funding of $200,000 to the Regina Symphony Orchestra (RSO). The organization is facing financial challenges that threaten its future and this investment will help the RSO avoid insolvency and work toward financial stability. A staple of Regina’s arts community for more than a century, the RSO has a long history of connecting...
Housing starts up 62.1 per cent
According to Statistics Canada, Saskatchewan continues to see remarkable growth with housing starts increasing by 62.1 per cent over the last year. Saskatchewan also saw impressive figures in building construction investment as the province is third in the nation from December 2023, compared to December 2022. “This growth does not just happen on its own,” Trade and Export Development Minister...
Cycling promotion a waste of money: CTF
The City of Saskatoon has teamed up with the federal government to spend up to $100,000 to pay consultants to promote biking in the city, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). “Saskatoon residents don’t need the city to spend $100,000 to help them decide if they want to ride a bike,” said Gage Haubrich, CTF Prairie...
Beware of poisonous creatures while on vacation
Most Canadians are ill-prepared to deal with bites/ stings in tropical climates. Here are the three most common. SCORPIONS There are 1,600 species of scorpions which all have a poisonous stinger at the back of their bodies and two grasping pincers at the front. Most are about 2.5 cm long. They are found in deserts, subtropical and tropical areas, as...
With Clark out of the mayoralty race, who will run?
In June 2021, a house on Clarence Avenue exploded. It turned out to be a terrible personal tragedy as opposed to an infrastructure failure, but I didn’t know that yet when I drove over there to check it out the next morning. I had wondered about the cause (failed gas line? Inspection issue? Shifting ground? What?) because I sometimes write...
Need for growing your own food growing
For those of us who like to garden, we get pleasure from gardening, as well as the bonus of great homegrown food. Growing your own food in any capacity is getting more important with each day that passes. The United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021 entered into the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030....
CTV Saskatoon viewers get bad news
The news keeps getting worse and worse for those of us that have been loyal CTV Saskatoon viewers for years. We could watch “our people” morning, noon and night. On Feb. 8, Bell Canada announced it was eliminating 4,800 jobs in the country. Bell Media is a piece of that pie, with a teeny-weeny piece of it being CTV Saskatoon....
Vision for new TCU Place becomes clearer
A City of Saskatoon committee advanced the future expansion of TCU Place by deciding to purchase the YMCA building for just over $8.5 million at a mid-February meeting largely dedicated to the downtown event and entertainment district (DEED) project. Mayor Charlie Clark, after some discussion around the price, said he was confident the agreement with the YM ensures certainty for...
Ken Noskye’s Memorable Stories: Sweat-lodge ceremonies have a healing power
When Ken died in February 2021, we had an outpouring of messages from readers, with many telling us how much his columns meant to them. In light of that, we thought we would go back through our files and re-publish some of them. Ken would be flattered by the kind words readers expressed. We miss him as a friend and...
25,000 students study at U of S
The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a member of the U15, a group of the top research universities in Canada. The U of S hosts two unique national research facilities — the Canadian Light Source, which is one of the world’s leading synchrotron facilities, and VIDO-InterVac, a world leader in developing vaccines and technologies to fight infectious diseases...