After Alberta issued an emergency alert about the possibility of rolling blackouts because of high power demands on their grid during the extreme cold, Saskatchewan fired up their coal and gas plants to provide Alberta with an extra 153 MW of electricity through the night. Sask
Regina’s fire department was notified around 3:40am on Friday, February 9th about a fire at a historic downtown church, Blessed Sacrement Parish. If you know this person contact RPS at 306.777.6500 or Crime Stoppers at 1.800.222.8477
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Austin got his trike stolen last year.
@reginapolice
successfully tracked it down, but it had been spray bombed and trashed.
@DutchCycle
fully restored Austin’s bike and surprised him with it this weekend 🙌🫶
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The Saskatchewan Premier announced on social media the province will stop collecting the carbon tax for the Feds as of the Jan 1, 2024 unless Ottawa gives Saskatchewan the same carbon tax exemption it just gave Atlantic Canada on their home heating sources.
Canada’s news system is so messed up right now, Saskatchewan’s capital city voted our garbage company’s social media for the best online news against the government funded CBC, and Bell Media owned CTV. Yes, we are a literal garbage removal company.
In one of the greatest online trolls in Regina history the meme community voted us Prairie Dog Magazine’s 2023 category award winner in “Best Online News” and “Best Social Media” 😂 🥳
🍻 You can celebrate this momentous cultural achievement with our “Garbage News Mug” available
Turns out Regina’s abandoned road construction projects can make the perfect habitat for Canada’s official mammal. 🇨🇦 🦫 🚧
📸 sassy_insk [Instagram]
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The CRA will be auditing Saskatchewan’s books for not remitting the carbon tax to the feds on home heating. The province’s minister for crown corporations says he’s not worried about it.
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Dancing Bob only has his bicycle to get around town, and recently had a nasty fall on some ice. His friends reached out to
@DutchCycle
who surprised Bob with some studded tires for Christmas 🎄🎅 🙌
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@tourism_yqr
is hiring a Manager, Marketing & Communications to join our team within the City of Regina. This person will lead marketing campaigns to elevate Regina as a destination and attract visitors to our vibrant city.
Apply today and make an impact!
We posted one Instagram dm from a nurse sharing how bad the drug crisis is in the city’s hospitals. This precipitated 30+ more professionals in the health care system and in corrections revealing how their institutions are essentially being used as safe injection sites. Regina
ArriveCan was originally budgeted for $80,000 but ended up 750 times over budget at $60 million, according to the best estimation of Canada’s Auditor General.
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On April Fool’s Day, Canadian Members of Parliament will give themselves a pay increase making them the second highest earning politicians in the world (After the U.S) at a base salary of $203,100. The Feds will also be increasing the consumer carbon tax on April Fool’s by 23%.
The Feds just tabled their $535B 2024-25 fiscal year budget with a $40B deficit and no estimate to balance it in this decade. They’ll print $53B in new spending and increase capital gains tax to 66.6%. Canada is $1.4+ trillion in debt, and the annual interest costs the government
Only in Canada is this guy eligible for day parole.
Robert Pickton (Age 74) is Canada’s deadliest serial killer, serial rapist, and possible cannibal. He was arrested in 2002 and in 2007 convicted of six counts of second-degree murder by the Supreme Court.
He was handed
Maybe for every day in March that SGI and RPS are focusing on breathalyzing every driver they pull over, we should just post all the public intoxication/open drug use content we get dm’d.
Regina’s Taco Bell had an hour long lineup in both the dine-in and drive-through yesterday from their opening at 10:30am right until they closed at midnight.
City barriers have been sitting over a pothole at Nollet & Berenson Ave for so long the neighborhood has begun decorating them 🚧🎄🚧
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😭 lmao we did it again.
Within 24 hours of our first meme trolling Regina’s visitor rest stop, City Hall sent in crews to clean it up. 🫡
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The fed’s environment minister, Steven Guildbeault, called Saskatchewan’s Premier Moe “immoral” for his protest of the Liberal government’s carbon tax law. Guildbeault was arrested in 2001 at a protest against the then Liberal government’s climate policies.
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🐐🌾 The City of Regina has started using goats as a chemical free way to help manage noxious weeds. The goats will be in a temporary fenced area and they’re accompanied by a skilled handler and trained dogs 24/7. Residents are reminded to “look but don’t touch” and allow the