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.
Sask health-care workers shouldn t have to beg for vaccines, union says cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory. (650 CKOM file photo)
The heads of both the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) and SEIU-West which represents thousands of health-care workers in the province agree it’s a good move to have health-care workers among the first in line to get the forthcoming COVID-19 vaccines.
“They are filtering through every virus (and) every sickness as they continue to do their work and they still have to live in the world. So I think it’s important for us to protect those frontline folks and then roll it out to folks who are a little bit further away from the actual outbreaks or the front end of the pandemic,” SEIU-West president Barbara Cape said Friday.