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Feb 5, 2021 7:09 AM
Regina mayor Sandra Masters working in her office at City Hall on Dec. 21, 2020. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME)
If the WHL drops the puck in a hub city this year, Regina Mayor Sandra Masters wants it to happen in the Queen City.
“The City of Regina has a long and storied history as it relates to WHL and hockey in general in our cultural and economic landscape, but in terms of being able to providing food services and space in hotel to create those bubbles, it would help our hospitality industry,” Masters said, noting she has written a letter in support of the idea to WHL Commissioner Ron Robison.
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The City of Regina is asking residents to provide feedback on its transit and paratransit services with an online survey.
Residents have before Feb. 23 to complete a survey at Regina.ca/transitplan.
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The city is also encouraging residents who don’t use Regina Transit to share their thoughts to help identify barriers to using the service.
The feedback will be used to develop a transit master plan, which will inform the city’s short and long-term decision making over the next 25 years. A second phase of community engagement will happen in the fall to get feedback on concepts that may be included in the plan.
Sometimes elected officials will make truly baffling, head-scratching decisions that will leave you questioning their common sense. Such was the case last week when the City of Regina’s executive committee, which is comprised of all members of city council, voted in favour of an amended motion that would prevent the city from soliciting or accepting sponsorship or advertising from companies or organizations whose business is principally derived from the sale or production of fossil fuels. The amended motion passed 7-4. It should be noted that new Regina Mayor Sandra Masters voted against the motion. Also among the four dissenters is former Estevan resident Terina Shaw, who is in her first term as the councillor for Ward 7, and likely knows a thing or two about the value of the energy sector, thanks to her time down here.
For the most part, elected officials do a good job, but sometimes you have to wonder what they are thinking. They have a tough job. They have to make some incredibly difficult decisions. Some of . . .
Saskatchewan’s premier had strong words for councillors, after Regina’s Executive Committee passed a motion to restrict energy companies ability to advertise with the City.