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Zambory said she has spoken with Health Minister Paul Merriman, requesting eligibility be extended to health-care workers who are not already eligible, arguing the variant could exacerbate a shortage of workers if a large number are forced to self-isolate.
“We have to be able to get some release in the system to be able to manage the health-care needs that are in front of us right now,” she said.
Her comments came a day after the Saskatchewan Medical Association, which represents the province’s doctors, issued a statement warning that the government’s refusal to tweak its vaccine plan “will result in more lost lives and long-term illness due to COVID-19, and put non-COVID patients at even greater risk given delays in the services and care they need.”
SASKATOON The Saskatchewan budget released Tuesday denied funding to the Prairie Harm Reduction safe consumption site in Saskatoon. The facility is a safe, clean place for people to consume drugs, under the supervision of staff who can offer social supports. “It’s somewhere safe where you don’t have to worry about dropping dread,” a person with an addiction, who didn’t want to share his name, told CTV News outside the site. “They’re making the cuts in the wrong places. Lives are more important.” The site is open Monday-to-Friday during the day. It applied for three options of funding to expand its hours:
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The provincial government will have to juggle demands for new funding in the face of strong fiscal headwinds, as it prepares to table another deficit budget on Tuesday.
Premier Scott Moe has framed the 2021-22 fiscal plan as a “recovery budget,” while both he and his finance minister have signalled that the government is likely to jettison the four-year balanced budget pledge it made during election season.
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Jim Farney, head of the politics and international studies department at the University of Regina, doubts the reversal will prove especially damaging for the Saskatchewan Party.
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