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SASKATOON It looks like Saskatoon businesses are a step closer to being able to take their businesses outside again this spring. The Committee on Planning, Development and Community Services heard from local business leaders Monday morning who stressed the importance of extending the asphalt patio pilot program that was brought into effect last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ben Quattrini is the director at The Boutique on Broadway Avenue and likes the idea of using the space in front of his store to sell his product. “It just gives us more area to accept our customers and work with our customers and all of those things and more space during Covid is always a good thing,” Quattrini told CTV News. ....
REGINA Regina city council has offered a piece of land for significantly less than its appraised value to an unnamed purchaser. A purchaser is looking to buy a piece of land north of the City. The development is still confidential, but the rail line is expected to be used. “This could have dire results if it was out in the public, because any competitor that caught wind of it could potentially insert themselves on a very minor scale, which could ruin the compilation of land that’s required in order for something of this nature to go forward,” Mayor Sandra Masters said. ....
REGINA While Saskatchewan has seen hesitancy from residents to receive AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, one Regina doctor is encouraging people to take whichever vaccine is offered to them. If I weren’t vaccinated right now and I had the option [to] get AstraZeneca right now or wait two weeks for Pfizer, I would not hesitate to get the first of whatever it was I could be offered, Dr. Alex Wong, an infectious disease physician in Regina, told CTV News on Monday. If you get COVID, it’s literally the difference between you being at home with the sniffles and you being in the ICU, or in a box. ....
The first six months of an Indigenous-led outreach support team, Saweyihtotan, recorded 477 interactions, leading individuals to safe housing and providing meals for vulnerable people. ....