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In an effort to ensure Regina’s downtown is safe and inclusive for everyone, a new team will hit the pavement in June, focused on providing help and access to supports for those in need.
The Community Support Program currently set up as an 18-month pilot will see a team of four individuals trained in areas like mediation, mental health, deescalation, first aid, overdose intervention, trauma support and culturally informed practices. The team will be connected to community service agencies, allowing them to get vulnerable people the help they need.
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The Saskatchewan government committed $52 million to a new remand expansion at Saskatoon’s provincial jail this year, but it may not eliminate the need for 30-person dorm-like settings.
The provincial budget released on Tuesday included the funding pledge for the previously announced $120 million remand expansion to add capacity for more than 400 new beds. Announced last June, it’s expected to be completed in 2024.
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In an interview on Wednesday, Minister of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety Christine Tell said the government continues to try to reduce the number of people on remand, “But … we’re not successful enough and this issue of remand is a challenge right across the country and it has been a challenge in Saskatchewan for a number of years.”
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“We as council hear all the time that we have problems with crime, we have gangs, all of these situations that are present in the city,” he told the meeting. “We have to do something about it. We have an organization, the John Howard Society that wants to do something about it.”
Ogrodnick argued it would be better to have vulnerable youth living in a supportive, supervised facility than renting an apartment themselves, something he said could very well happen “if we don’t approve this.”
The proposed location of the care home beside Kinsmen Park is shown in red. (Council Agenda Package/City of P.A.)