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The Saskatchewan Party government and agencies under its control are increasingly bringing to mind an image of blinkered dray horses trudging along a well-trodden route, utterly oblivious to changes happening in the world around them.
The latest example is the laughably weak response by the Provincial Capital Commission to a recent court ruling involving impingement of Indigenous charter rights to religion, free expression and assembly. The PCC demonstrated an astounding disregard for acting in good faith toward reconciliation.
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Police say tickets have been an effective tool in health order enforcement There has to be some means of transmitting to people that their own conduct has a barring on the well being of other people.
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Publishing date: Mar 12, 2021 • March 12, 2021 • 3 minute read • An anti-mask demonstrator has words with a peace officer at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in Regina, Saskatchewan on Mar. 9, 2021. Police say the majority of interactions are peaceful, but their enforcement targets leaders and organizers as a means of deterrence. Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post
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The overwhelming majority of Saskatchewan residents have complied with Public Health Orders (PHO) through the COVID-19 pandemic, but Regina police admit there are a few repeat offenders.
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Moe is loosening restrictions at a time when Saskatchewan continues to have the highest per capita rate of active COVID cases in Canada, along with the highest per capita rate of new cases. In addition, the number of variant cases in our province is rising. The disease is beginning to make its presence felt in Saskatchewan schools. Most health-care unions are opposed to easing restrictions. Moe’s decision will be positive for the economy, but one has to wonder what price will be paid and if it’s a price we can afford?
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Government relations spokesperson Shaylyn McMahon said this week the ministry “is considering options for an online system where municipal finances would be publicly available, including … on Saskatchewan.ca.”
MacKay acknowledged 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic likely left the province scrambling on some fronts with unprecedented workloads.
McMahon alluded to that in her response to the Leader-Post, saying project timelines needed adjustment “as the ministry’s focus was on supporting municipalities through the pandemic.”
But MacKay underscored it’s fairly simple to publicly post “basic PDF (portable document format) files” to the web. “It’s not rocket science,” he said.