Premier Scott Moe said Tuesday he was concerned that no Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shipments would be coming to Saskatchewan or Canada next week and he suggested the premiers would like the prime minister to light a figurative firecracker under the powers that be at Pfizer.
Mayor Sandra Masters, far right, said she is not supporting the ban.(Matt Duguid/CBC)
LeBlanc further compared taking sponsorship money from oil and gas companies to the likes of naming a building after a pack of smokes or cannabis companies. We can not allow that to happen with fossil fuel companies, whose financial interest is to push the continued use of carbon-heavy technologies, carbon-heavy fuel sources. We need to distance ourselves from that and not allow them to gain legitimacy through their association with us, LeBlanc said.
Concerns of penalizing oil and gas workers
Mayor Sandra Masters, who voted against LeBlanc s motion, said she was having a hard time comparing Shell with sex work.
The Saskatchewan government is already working to stop the potential cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline approval in the United States, according.
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Minister of Health Paul Merriman speaks to media at the Legislative Building in Regina.(Michael Bell/The Canadian Press) comments
The Saskatchewan government continues to refrain from saying whether it will hold a public inquiry into the COVID-19 outbreak at Regina s Parkside Extendicare home, where 41 residents have died since late November.
The notion of an inquiry was first raised in mid-December by the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN), followed closely by the Saskatchewan NDP.
Last week, both groups renewed their calls for a fact-finding process, with SUN sending a formal letter to Premier Scott Moe. The letter asked that any probe cover how COVID-19 got into the home, how it spread so quickly and broadly, what was done to lessen its impact and what preventative measures should be in place at the home going forward.
Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP leader says the U.S. Capitol siege on Wednesday could happen in Saskatchewan, if conspiracy theories and misinformation go unchecked.