News Source: Regina Leader Post

Regina Making the Most of Winter with New Full Moon Festival, Suds & Sweaters, and Frost Festival

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

How do you take a new music and arts festival to a cosmic level right out of the gates? Schedule it in conjunction with a full moon, and build up to it with quarter moon and half moon celebrations. The Winter Moon Festival premiered last week in Regina; the focus of the multi-venue event music,

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Saskatchewan nursing union says recruitment plan to address worker shortage moving too slow

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

It doesn’t matter where you look, recruitment of workers and staffing are the challenges facing communities. This story from The Regina Leader-Post highlights the Saskatchewan’s provincial need for nurses. Those on the job are burning out at a faster and faster rate, and the impact on health care is becoming evident. What are they doing

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Regina City Committee Confronts Hypocrisy of Their Own City Center Development Priority

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

Regina’s City Council is taking steps to intentionally target development in the city’s core neighborhoods. And in a committee meeting this week, they raised some hard questions, like, if they’re trying to target core development city center, why are they incentivizing development in the greenfield areas? Why does it matter in Minot? We could ask

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‘Brain drain’: International medical grads in Saskatchewan struggle to become doctors

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

What if you left your home country, completed your education and professional training abroad, and then returned home only to discover you couldn’t get a license to work? What if, at the same time, there was a labor shortage of the expertise you hold? Well, that’s the problem Canada is having with medical doctors, and,

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Saskatchewan reaches new record for overdose deaths in 2022

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

The opioid addiction scourge knows no borders. It’s worth noting,  especially as we seek solutions locally, that we need to look far and wide for those managing this crisis most effectively. It’s also timely as Governor Burgum recently announced how the state will go about using as much as $62 million in resources paid from

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Sask. Provincial Tax Changes Redistribute Property Tax Burden

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

Our provincial neighbors to the North changed their tax code, and it’s creating a headache for rural municipalities. The change was simple, the province lowered the rate at which certain commercial properties could be taxed. It was a win for some businesses, and a loss for others. But there’s an important underlying factor at play;

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Compare Minot — City of Regina launches new website

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

In a case of compare Minot to others, the City of Regina launched a new website. It replaces the last website built in 2008. The cost: $1.2 million Canadian. If you use the City of Minot’s website, it’s worth taking a look to gather ideas and see what works. Check it out here: https://www.regina.ca

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Regina Fair adding Fortnite tournament to activities

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

Regina’s summer fair, known as Queen City Ex, is stepping into the world eSports at their event later this summer. In partnership with local gaming-focused businesses, the fair will host tournament style competitions in the game Fortnite with a top prize of $8,500. There’s a $40 entry fee with room for 640 competitors, but registration will

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Regina Flying Club aims to take on more students amid pilot shortage

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

Pilots — they’re yet another example of how labor shortages are choking our economy, and the problem doesn’t honor international boundaries. In Regina, one local flying club is taking the national issue up at a local level. They’re investing in their club with tools like flight simulators and expanding training scholarship opportunities to get new

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Regina’s residential construction industry in ‘deep recession’

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

In an insular world, it’s easy to think we’re the only people and place facing a down economy. It’s not so as this article from the Regina Leader Post points out. Also worth noting, the cause attached to the slow down; top-down policies that carry consequences into places they weren’t intended for. It’s a call

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Saskatchewan must act quickly in Chinese trade dispute

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

Have you noticed the global economy reorganizing in relation to all these trade conversations? Ask a soybean farmer if trade and tariff posturing and global politics matter in North Dakota; if they’re paying attention, they’ll tell you international politics matter on small North Dakota farms. And we’re not alone; our neighbors to the North are

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Regina city council eliminates permit fee for new street-painting program

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

How do you build community? In Regina, street painting is one activity that’s showing promise. How do you discourage street painting? By charging a large administration free. The City’s administration was proposing just such a fee, but the City Council said otherwise. To them, the benefit was worth more than the cost of the not-inconsequential

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Project Seeks Stories of Downtown Regina

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

The Tale of a Town is a national Canadian project to memorialize ‘Main Street’. And it’s using the art of storytelling and performances to capture the peoples’ recollections of Regina’s downtown through the years.

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In Downtown Regina, Windows Become Galleries

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

How do you create foot traffic, generate buzz, and get peoples’ minds off the never ending construction? In Regina, artists are working with shopkeepers to create galleries in storefront windows.

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€’Naked’€™ Saskatchewan Trekkers Blamed for Malaysian Earthquake

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

Know the laws of the country you’re visiting before you go. For two Saskatchewan travelers, the learning curve is steep; they’re blamed with angering a mountain spirit and causing an earthquake because of a picture taken atop the mountain. They were not naked by our standards.

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City of Regina Seeks Thoughts on Infill Housing

by: Josh Wolsky  |  

Rather than continue to grow out, forcing the construction of new roads and infrastructure, the City of Regina is making a conscious effort to expand housing from within the existing city. They’re calling the concept ‘infill housing’ and they’re looking for ways to incentivize the behavior.

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