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• $75.6 million for Saskatchewan Health Authority COVID pressures • $20 million for the Saskatchewan Small Business Emergency Payment Program • $17 million for Tourism supports • $14.2 million for Municipal Grants for Growth • $12.3 million for Public Safety response • $9.9 million for Custody Services • $5.5 million for the Chief Electoral Officer • $3.2 million for Court Service enhancements • $1.8 million for SaskPoly Dental Lab renovations • $500,000 for Conexus Arts Centre support The first $40 million of the $200 million contingency was allocated to the Sa...

Saskatchewan allocates $160 million of pandemic contingency money SHARE ON: Finance Minister Donna Harpauer presenting the provincial budget in June 2020. Government of Saskatchewan) The Saskatchewan Government has announced that they will be drawing down from the province’s health and public safety contingency. This funding will be going towards several items, which Finance Minister and Deputy Premier Donna Harpauer says will cover pandemic related costs, health system requirements, AgriInvest Program payments, and highways construction or winter maintenance. The Saskatchewan Health Autho...

  Regina– When government spending not allocated within an approved budget takes place, the government must use “special warrants.” On March 1, the Government of Saskatchewan announced a number of these warrants.   Typically the provincial Legislature meets in February, and a budget is released in March. However, the first sitting of this spring’s session will be on April 6, which will also be budget day.    In the meantime, the government said in a release, “To help protect Saskatchewan people and businesses through the global COVID-19 pandemic, the $200 million hea...

To help protect Saskatchewan people and businesses through the global COVID-19 pandemic, the $200 million health and public safety contingency has been drawn down, with $160 million in new . . .

The Saskatchewan government has emptied its $200-million health and public safety contingency fund. After spending $40 million in the first quarter of the 2020-21 fiscal year to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government announced Monday it had issued another $160 million in what it called “new contingency allocations.” The government issued February special warrants totaling $322.8 million. “These special warrants are needed for pandemic-related costs, as well as for health system requirements, AgriInvest Program payments, and highways construction and winter maintena...