A concerned citizens group in Moose Jaw is starting a public awareness campaign to tackle what it calls the city’s crisis of crystal meth addiction. The group, called the Moose Jaw Crystal Meth Strategy Committee, is comprised of 11 people representing agencies that include the city’s police, social services, the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), city council and the Moose Jaw Transition House, among other human service groups. Project co-ordinator Mary Lee Booth said the committee is eager to get started, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to hit pause for 2020. The committee first formed in June 2019 after a popular open house earlier that year.
Thanks to his work as chief of the White Bear First Nation, shared with that community’s leaders in the 1990s, Indigenous-led casinos are regular fixtures today: Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), their regulating body, earned $270 million in the last fiscal year, employs more than 1,600 people, manages seven year-round casinos, and is also celebrating its 25th anniversary. But as Shepherd, now a band councillor, looks back he’s reminded that the tidy, yearly milestones offer only half a picture. Earlier events in the 90s point to familiar themes when governments interact with Indigenous people: Heavy-handed police power; minimal government support for First Nations; betrayed commitments.
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REGINA 327 employees from Casinos Regina and Moose Jaw have received layoff notices which take effect Monday. 238 unionized workers and 89 non-union employees will be impacted. The layoffs come as the two government operated casinos prepare to temporarily close at midnight, Friday night. Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation spokesperson Shanna Schulhauser said the temporary layoffs are being made under the public emergency provisions in the Saskatchewan Employment Act. Casinos and bingo halls have been ordered to close to help slow the spread of COVID-19. 251 additional permanent employees have been off the job since March. “Sask. Gaming Is being met with even greater challenges than we were at the end of March and this has resulted in the corporation needing to make some considerable changes, not just to gaming floor and back of house staff and management, but also to corporate staff too,” Schulhauser said.
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