REGINA Regina’s third community fridge opened in the Heritage neighbourhood on Wednesday morning. The community fridge is a small structure housing free food in a fridge, freezer and pantry. The food is available to anyone who needs it, 24-hours a day. It is located at 1510 12th Avenue, in the alley next to Carmichael Outreach. “There’s definitely food insecurity in Regina, like all across North America. People don’t have access to affordable food, to healthy food,” Sara Maria Daubisse, a volunteer with Regina Community Fridge 12th Avenue, said. There are two other community fridges in Regina, one in the Cathedral neighbourhood and one in North Central. Daubisse said they are ‘filled and used every day.’
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The failure of the provincial government to provide any funding at all to a safe drug consumption site speaks volumes about a government that is more concerned with its base than doing the right thing to attack the drug pandemic ravaging parts of Saskatchewan.
Last year a record 345 people are said to have died from drug overdoses in this province. This number compares with the COVID-19 deaths in 2020 in Saskatchewan of 445.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic is foremost in people’s minds, somehow the drug overdose pandemic has flown under the radar for many.
Editorial: Government made wise choice to spend in budget, but could have gone further Could spending have stretched a little further or been spent a little more efficiently to address two more crises in this province?
Author of the article: Regina Leader-Post Editorial Board, Saskatoon StarPhoenix editorial board
Publishing date: Apr 09, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Donna Harpauer, minister of finance, speaks at an embargoed press conference on Budget Day at the Legislative Building in Regina on April 6, 2021. The government presented a budget with both record spending and deficits. Photo by Michael Bell /The Canadian Press
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Welcome to budgeting in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic where governments no longer need to worry about the size of their deficit.
Editorial: Government made wise choice to spend in budget, but could have gone further Could spending have stretched a little further or been spent a little more efficiently to address two more crises in this province?
Author of the article: Regina Leader-Post Editorial Board
Publishing date: Apr 09, 2021 • 10 hours ago • 3 minute read • Donna Harpauer, minister of finance, speaks at an embargoed press conference on Budget Day at the Legislative Building in Regina on April 6, 2021. The government presented a budget with both record spending and deficits. Photo by Michael Bell /The Canadian Press
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Welcome to budgeting in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic where governments no longer need to worry about the size of their deficit.