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Mar 5, 2021 2:21 PM
Michael Parker, executive director of Nēwo-Yôtina Friendship Centre, shows off the new safe consumption site on March 5, 2021. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
The second safe drug consumption site in Saskatchewan will soon open its doors.
The Nēwo-Yôtina Friendship Centre in Regina has been given preliminary approval to provide a space for people to use drugs under supervision.
Saskatchewan’s first facility to do that, Prairie Harm Reduction, opened in Saskatoon in October.
Michael Parker, the Regina facility’s executive director, said there is some final vetting to go through. After that, operators of the site aim to be open in two weeks.
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Regina Police Chief Evan Bray (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
For many people, the bar is set pretty low for the new year to be better than the last one.
With a COVID-19 vaccine program gearing up and the possible end of the pandemic in sight, Regina’s police chief, Evan Bray, said it’s hard to completely understand what the new normal is going to look like.
“There is going to be a day, hopefully in the not too distant future, where we can gather without masks and we can kind of go back to some form of normalcy,” said Bray. “But I think we’re all affected. The generation that is living right now will look and live differently going forward even if it’s just the use of hand sanitizer and washing your hands.”
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Starting in March, the daily work of Leader-Post photographers was dominated by the increasing threat of COVID-19.
The images collected throughout the ongoing pandemic from the emergence of personal protective equipment (PPE) to testing and vaccines capture a city and province in the various stages of coping with a deadly virus in 2020.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Photos of the year: COVID-19 in Sask. Back to video Saskatchewan’s Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab speaks to media during a news conference regarding Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in Regina, Saskatchewan on Mar 11, 2020. On frame left is John Ash, SHA Executive Director of Acute Care. On frame right is Saskatchewan Health Minister Jim Reiter.