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  SASKATOON -- After months of instructions from the province regarding public health guidelines, businesses will soon be in the drivers seat. On Sunday restaurants, stores and other businesses can choose to remove the mandatory mask mandate. “It should be left up to business because not all businesses are the same nature,” said the owner of Techedge Tauseeq Aziz. “We have shoplifting at a higher rate in this so there were points where we did not want to have masks on our customers,...

Posted: Jun 01, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: June 1 Signs of the times from Eighth Street East in Saskatoon.(Dan Zakreski/CBC) comments Cierra Sieben-Chuback calls it "Pot Street." Sieben-Chuback owns Living Skies Cannabis, one of the original six cannabis stores that opened in the city when the federal government legalized recreational cannabis in October 2018. She opened her flagship store downtown. Since then, she has opened three new stores in the past year, including one on Eighth St...

The number of retail cannabis stores in Saskatoon has tripled after the province removed the original cap on permits in the fall of 2020.