Steven Wilson

The numbers are in for SGI’s traffic enforcement spotlight for March, which was on impaired driving. In all, 454 drivers were nabbed for an impaired driving offence. This included 312 administrative suspensions and 142 Criminal Code charges.  

This year will see Weyburn hosting the 20th edition of the biennial Saskatchewan Oil & Gas Show, and there is a full three days planned for those in attendance.  

The Governor General of Canada, the Right Honourable Mary Simon, will be making her first official visit to Saskatchewan early next week. The visit, which starts on Monday, will see her visiting Regina, Saskatoon, and more over the course of three days.  

A difference in language on the offer that will be going to the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation membership early next month. The STF issued a release late Wednesday stating the offer was a final offer from the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee, while a release from the provincial government shortly afterwards called it a tentative agreement.  

One year ago, the southeast saw the winds pick up, the temperature drop, and some flurries start to fall. That sort of weather isn’t always unusual in April, but what happened the next day was. The southeast ended up covered in a Colorado low, depositing snow in huge amounts.

Starting yesterday, and continuing into this morning, the temperatures started to drop, the winds picked up, and scattered flurries were falling. Sound familiar? 

A difference in language on the offer that will be going to the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation membership early next month. The STF issued a release late Wednesday stating the offer was a final offer from the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee, while a release from the provincial government shortly afterwards called it a tentative agreement.  

The provincial Ministry of Social Services has been under fire in recent weeks over expenses paid out for emergency hotel stays in Regina. The concerns were raised by the opposition NDP after they learned the rate charged by the Sunrise Motel, owned by Saskatchewan Party MLA Gary Grewal, was higher than the standard rate they charge. It was then learned the amount spent for emergency stays at the Sunrise, and the Thirftlodge, another hotel Grewal is an investor in, increased by nearly $730,000 since he was elected in 2020.  

The Saskatchewan NDP has been asking a lot of questions, and not getting a lot of answers, about expenses on hotel and motel rooms by the Ministry of Social Services since October of 2020. The questions all center around the expenses at two motels that are connected with Saskatchewan Party MLA Gary Grewal in Regina.  

There has been a lot of media attention in recent weeks to the coming emergence of cicadas in the United States. The insects in the United States emerge in cycles of 13 or 17 years and this year, what is known as the Great Southern Brood, the largest brood known that emerges every 13 years, and the Northern Illinois Brood, which emerges every 17 years, will emerge at the same time.  

The work-to-rule campaign by the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation will be suspended as of 11:59 p.m. tonight, as the STF and Government Trustee Bargaining Committee resume negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. The negotiations are expected to start on Tuesday.