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    Date: Jan 24, 2025
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Former employees at the Willowview Recovery Centre are sounding the alarm over opening delays at the facility as the province faces an on-going addictions crisis.

The 60-bed treatment facility was first announced by the Government of Saskatchewan in January last year to open in the spring of 2024.

The former senior admissions coordinator at the centre says she never admitted a single patient to in-patient or out-patient treatment before she quit her position last fall.

“My passion is helping others,” Mandy Challis told reporters Thursday. “I was really excited that a new treatment centre was coming to Saskatchewan. It was very much in need.”

“I was immediately concerned with the admissions. We had no opening date and we were building this [waiting] list,” she added.

The facility, operated by B.C. company EHN Canada, was to offer a 16-week in-patient treatment program.

Challis worked at the centre from May to October 2024. Her job was to take calls from those wishing to access care and screen them for eligibility.

When she left, she said the waitlist had reached over 200 people.

“If four, 60-bed treatment centres opened tomorrow in Saskatchewan, they would be immediately filled,” Challis said. “[This facility] has had a year of money being put into staffing with no clients when there are [local] organizations begging for donations.”

Reason for Delay

In November, the Saskatchewan NDP first raised concerns about the facility not being fully operational.

At the time, the government said delays in renovations made the space unusable for overnight treatment. On Nov. 28, Minister of Addictions and Mental Health Lori Carr called the delays unfortunate.

“But [the beds] will be open soon,” she added that day.

In response to the delays, EHN did open 30 out-patient spaces to allow some patients the ability to access treatment.

Trevor Cyr, a recovering addict himself, was an addictions support person at Willowview until he also quit last fall.

He echoed Challis’ concerns about the lack of in-patient beds available.

“I understand the impacts of addiction and the importance of treatment centers,” Cyr said. “If we had opened the day they said, there’s no way that facility would have been in proper running order.”

Social worker Rob Kraushar says she does not recommend addicts wishing to access care to Willowview with its current treatment model.

“I work with other organizations. We all come together to see what works best for people and what we can manage for them,” he explained.

Kraushar highlighted the growing crisis in the province.

“Sixty beds is a lot,” he said. “But it’s not enough. It’s a start but zero beds is not enough either.”

Calls for Investigation

At a press conference Thursday, the NDP called for an investigation into why the treatment centre remains not fully operational.

“What was already spent. What was invested?” asked NDP MLA Betty Nippi-Albright. “What was the proposal actually for? Like what did EHN want to do?”

The NDP shadow minister for mental health and addictions says the party has filed multiple freedom of information (FOI) requests with the government to get answers.

“The government can say, ‘This is how we’ve wasted taxpayer dollars in this province,” Nippi-Albright said. “There are people dying out there and [they] failed to take care of the most vulnerable and the ones seeking inpatient treatment.”

In a statement to CTV News, Carr said renovations continue to ensure the building is safe for patients.

“While renovations are undertaken, EHN is providing intensive day treatment services while they transition into overnight occupancy,” the statement went on to say.

The government added it will bring forward an update on those renovations “in the coming days.”



    Date: Jan 24, 2025
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NASA has recognized 10 global winners in its 2024 Space App Challenge and a group of University of Regina students are among those victorious.

In just 24 hours, the team of four created a project called Asteroid Destroyer.

“We took up the challenge for building a navigator for the Habitable World Observatory to be able to map and characterize exoplanets and be able to identify which they can send a probe to analyze it,” explained Sathyajit Loganathan, a member of the team.

The NASA Space Apps Challenge is an annual global competition that gives participants the opportunity to tackle challenges on Earth and in space.

The competition was held in Saskatoon earlier this month.

Almost 10,000 projects were submitted from all over the world and were judged by experts from NASA and other space agency partners.

“It feels great actually. Especially even CSA (Canadian Space Agency) recognized and posted about us on their social media. So that gave us some really well boosting confidence so that we can go further and participate in more competitions in future,” said Satyam Singh, another member of the team.

None of it would’ve been possible without the collaboration from each member.

“We have telescopes and telescopes can only look that way, and they can only measure the angle like that. So, one of my tasks was converting that into an X-Y-Z plane, so that these guys who were working on the front end … It’s better and more convenient for them to build out, like map out coordinates using that system,” team member Kapeesh Kaul explained.

“My role also entailed all the classifications based on what parameters we can classify exoplanets habitable or not.”

The team doesn’t have any NASA related projects on the go right now, but they hope to participate in future competitions, according to Loganathan.

“As we see human species progress and if there’s more realistic goals as everyone to achieve in [the] space arena or if everything moves forward faster, there’ll be more solutions to think about and solve.”



    Date: Jan 24, 2025
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The Saskatchewan government is moving forward with its plan to implement change room policies in schools across the province — but what those policies are will be up to school divisions to decide.

In a news release Thursday, the Ministry of Education announced it was requiring all school divisions to establish their own formal policies on the use of school change rooms that “upholds the privacy, dignity and comfort of all students.”

Premier Scott Moe initially pitched sweeping rules for school changerooms in the run up to the Oct. 28 election, after an online publication ran a story outlining concerns about two 12-year-old trans students using a girls’ change room at a southeastern Saskatchewan school. The two students in the story were later identified on social media as the children of NDP MLA Jared Clarke.

Responding to the story at the time, Moe it would be his “first order of business” to ban “biological boys” from changing alongside “biological girls.” He recanted that stance after the election, and Clarke later called on Moe to apologize for putting his children in the crosshairs of public scrutiny.

The announcement Thursday marks a significant shift in tone on the issue, centering privacy, comfort and dignity.

“Ultimately, what is important for us to ensure that every student in Saskatchewan has a safe learning environment,” Minister of Education Everett Hindley told CTV News.

“That when they go to school, that they feel they are accommodated, and they feel it is a safe space.”

The Ministry of Education says it expects school divisions to come up with policies in collaboration with the relevant parties, such as students, parents and teachers.

The decision was welcomed by the Saskatchewan School Boards Association.

“[Its] essentially respectful of the autonomy of boards of education, which is something our organization has long lobbied,” Shawn Davidson explained. “That’s a hill that we stand on, very loudly, that our structure is set up the way it is for a very good reason.”

“The locally elected school boards did appreciate the opportunity to handle these issues locally,” Hindley added. “To make decisions and [conduct] consultation with parents and with citizens within their school divisions.”

In the government’s announcement, it noted that it will continue to monitor the situation to ensure that local input is being respected and heard.

Some say the decision is a relief that the matter is coming back to local school divisions but feel that it never should have been up for debate in the first place.

“My relief is that we have clear guidance from the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code that gender identity is a protected ground,” explained University of Regina Associate Professor j skelton. “And its clear that everyone has a right to use spaces that best represent their gender identity, so we have some clear guidance there.”

“I hear this as saying, ‘School divisions, tell us how you’re going to operationalize that.’”

School divisions will need to have their policies in place, communicated to stakeholders and publicly available by June 30, 2025.



    Date: Jan 24, 2025
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Police in Prince Albert are seeking tips to locate a suspect after a shooting at a vehicle early Friday morning.

Around 6:40 a.m. police say they responded to a weapons call at 28th Street East and Dunn Drive, where a man discharged a firearm at the complainant before fleeing.

Arriving officers located the complainant who was unharmed, but the vehicle sustained damage, with the bullet striking the rear driver’s side door.

Police say the victim was sitting in his vehicle when another vehicle approached from the 900 block of 28th Street East. The suspect exited his vehicle, approached the complainant’s vehicle, and began banging his fists on the driver window.

The suspect then allegedly brandished a firearm and the complainant began to drive away before the suspect discharged the firearm, hitting the complainant’s vehicle.

The suspect, described as a male wearing a mask and driving a white Dodge Ram, fled the area.

Anyone with information about the incident is ask to contact police.


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    Date: Jan 24, 2025
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Two people were sent to hospital after an incident involving chlorine gas at Spadina Crescent and 21st Street East Friday afternoon.

At around 12:13 p.m., fire crews responded to a report of a hazmat incident involving the accidental mixing of chlorine and muriatic acid, Saskatoon Fire Department (SFD) said in a release.

Hazmat crews arrived on scene to find the contaminated areas had been evacuated, according to the fire department. Two individuals were transported to hospital by ambulance, but their condition is currently unknown.

SFD says the release of chlorine gas was contained and the hazmat crew began to ventilate the area.

In an update shortly after 3 p.m., the fire department declared the scene all clear and confirmed that the air quality was safe.


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    Date: Jan 24, 2025
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The recent pausing of two highly anticipated construction projects near Regina are doing nothing to discourage Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe from his government’s goal of attracting investment into the province.

On Friday, Jan. 17, Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) CEO Heather Ryan announced her company’s canola crush and renewable diesel projects were being put on hold.

The decision was due to several factors including political uncertainty, potential shifts in low-carbon public policy, and rising costs.

The Integrated Agriculture Complex was proposed as a partnership between FCL and Regina-based AGT Foods.

Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Moe furthered the idea that an expected change in federal governance is leading to some investments being put on ice.

“There’s uncertainty around the future of the clean fuel standard, but there’s also other ways that they’re able to reduce the carbon content of the fuel that they produce,” Moe said.

Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulations were first promised by the federal government in 2016 – but weren’t implemented until 2022.

The regulations are designed to reduce emissions from every stage of producing gasoline and diesel while also driving investment into biofuels and infrastructure for electric vehicles.

“I think that’s what you see happening here is a potential uncertainty of policies that have been brought in that is changing some of the investment decisions, specifically with FCL,” Moe added.

The premier pointed to other projects that are going forward, including Cargill’s canola crush plant being constructed west of the city, which is slated to open later this year.

Louis Dreyfus and Richardson Pioneer in Yorkton are also expanding their capacities.

With these ongoing projects and expansions, the province is confident that it will reach its canola crush target.

“I think it’s fair to say that we still will meet our 75 per cent crush target here in the province. We were poised to go far beyond that, and actually to some degree, maybe even becoming an economic importer in Canada … because of the crush capacity that we would have,” Moe added.

“I think that, in fairness, [we] would be striving to attract those investments. There’s some that are not gone away, but are on pause, and can be looked at some point in the future when or if the market changes, if the policy changes, whatever that might be.”

The Viterra-Bunge merger was also a topic of conversation, with Moe saying his government received an assurance that Bunge’s acquisition of the Regina-based agriculture firm would not lead to cuts but rather an expansion of the new company’s presence in Saskatchewan and western Canada.

“Now, I think they’ll be looking at what the opportunities are for the crush plant that was announced by Viterra previously, as we make a decision whether they’re going to continue to move forward with that, our hopes that they certainly do,” Moe added.

Prior to Moe’s availability with reporters, Opposition NDP Leader Carla Beck criticized Moe for his lack of comment on FCL’s pause – painting the governing party as “more focused on looks than substance.”

“The Sask. Party are the first ones there with their golden shovels for the photo-op but are now in hiding as billions of dollars and thousands of jobs go up in smoke,” Beck said in a statement on Jan. 17.

FCL’s Integrated Agriculture Complex was slated to create 2,500 jobs in its construction phase.

An array of organizations representing Saskatchewan producers have also expressed concerns over the Bunge/Viterra merger – with a University of Saskatchewan study estimating the merger will lead to an $800 million loss annually for producers.


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    Date: Jan 24, 2025
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A blowing snow advisory has extended to southern Saskatchewan, including Regina, as well as many central parts of the province on Friday, with Highway Hotline advising drivers of multiple areas with poor conditions.

According to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) on Friday, poor visibility from blowing snow is expected in some areas during the day, leading to hazardous travel conditions.

Areas under the advisory in the morning included the R.M’s of Biggar, Gull Lake, Kindersley, Maple Creek, Piapot, and Swift Current, among others.

Around 2:45 p.m., the advisory extended to Regina, Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Meadow Lake, and surrounding areas.


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    Date: Jan 24, 2025
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would retaliate against U.S. tariffs if he were elected prime minister, potentially matching them dollar for dollar.

In an interview with CTV News Atlantic’s Todd Battis, Poilievre, providing details of his plan for the first time, said he would target American products and services Canada doesn’t need or can make in-house if President Donald Trump implemented his much-talked-about 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports.

“We’re both going to lose as Americans and Canadians if we get in a trade war,” he said. “We can buy elsewhere to maximize the impact on Americans and minimize the impact on Canadians.”

When asked if the retaliation could be dollar for dollar, Poilievre said, “I would say so. It has to hit hard. We have to be very pinpoint and surgical.”

President Trump has proposed implementing the tariffs on Feb. 1. According to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, roughly $3.6 billion in goods cross the border every day.

The Chamber also says 2.3 million Canadian jobs are tied to U.S. exports.

Poilievre, who is visiting the Maritimes this week, said if he were prime minister he would pass an emergency “bring-it-home” tax cut to stimulate economic growth in the country. He also suggested he would eliminate barriers for interprovincial trade.

“We have freer trade now with the Americans than ourselves,” he said. “We have to knock down those barriers. If (America is) going to be an unreliable trade partner, we’ve got to find ways to sell more to ourselves and the world.”

Poilievre said his goal as prime minister would be to approve resource and energy projects as quickly as possible, laying out a plan to repel Bill C-69. He also expressed support for a project similar to the defunct Energy East pipeline.

“I’d strongly support an east-west pipeline,” he said. “That particular project probably won’t be resuscitated, but the idea of selling western oil to eastern refineries is impeccable.

“The alternative is we continue to sell at a discount in the west and buy at a premium in the east and lose money millions of times every single day is economic suicide and stupidity.”

Earlier this week, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston issued a memo to his caucus outlining his vision for the province to become more self-sufficient by, among other things, focusing on energy developments. He also suggested that, no matter what party forms the next government, the province could probably expect fewer transfer payments.

Poilievre said, if elected, he wouldn’t propose cuts to transfer payments.

“My plan is to enrich the Maritime provinces,” he said. “There’s no reason why the Maritime provinces can’t move into the ‘have’ category.”




    Date: Jun 14, 2024
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Congratulations Kal Smith On Winning the 2024 Country Thunder Saskatchewan Contest!! A big thank you to everyone who participated in this exciting contest and to our proud sponsor: Titan Attachments!


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    Date: Jun 14, 2024
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Congratulations Kal Smith On Winning COUNTRY THUNDER SASKATCHEWAN 2024 Contest!!
Make sure to claim your prize before it expires!!!

CONTEST PRIZE EXPIRE DATE: Jun 14 2024 16:37:05


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    Date: Jun 07, 2024
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Congratulations Britney Davis On Winning the 2024 Country Thunder Saskatchewan Contest!!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this contest and our proud sponsor: Titan Attachments!


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