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REGINA A 30-year-old Regina man is facing charges after a single vehicle crash that seriously injured a passenger. Police said that early Saturday morning the vehicle was exiting the Regina Bypass at Ninth Avenue North at a high speed. The vehicle hit a guardrail and light post, which damaged the vehicle and caused serious injuries to the passenger. The passenger, also a 30-year-old man was taken to hospital. The driver was arrested at the scene. The driver is charged with dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm. He will appear in court on Aug. 26. Share: ....
REGINA A local barber is out of work for two weeks after he said he did everything by the book, but it still wasn’t enough to protect him from self-isolation after a COVID-19 exposure. Randy Huhtala is stuck spending his days away from the barber shop he works at after he trimmed the beard of a customer that later found out they were exposed to COVID-19. Huhtala was wearing all the PPE required for a barber, but had to remove the customer’s mask in order to trim their facial hair. For contact identification, the government uses a period of 15 cumulative minutes over 24 hours to distinguish between brief and prolonged exposure. ....
PRINCE ALBERT Lawyers across Canada and estate-planning businesses are reporting an increase in business over the last year the compared to previous yearly averages. This time last year, March early-April everything went bananas. It really did go crazy, said CEO of Canadian Legal Will, Tom Hewson. Writing a will is an interesting thing because people generally procrastinate. Hewson said at the start of the pandemic his business tripled. It has since slowed down but remains about 35 per cent higher in a year-to-year average. Canadian Legal Wills surveyed 10,000 clients who used his service in the last year and 53 per cent of people said COVID-19 was a factor in making them write their will, Hewson said. ....
REGINA Two Regina doctors are painting a grim picture of the reality inside COVID-19 ICUs as Saskatchewan’s capital city continues to report record intensive care admissions. COVID-19 patients young and old are filling up intensive care beds in both of Regina’s hospitals. We’re seeing younger individuals, people with no medical history or medical comorbidities, families being admitted together, families of essential workers and essential workers, Dr. Eric Sy, a critical care physician at Regina’s General Hospital, told CTV News. The rise is being fuelled mostly by 31 patients in Regina ICUs. Dr. Sy said the situation has worsened over the past two to three weeks as case numbers in the Queen City started to rise. ....