Regina’s Momentum Café has announced a new bakery expansion, just weeks after the five year anniversary of their opening. Getting to this point was not always easy. The COVID-19 pandemic was in full force when Momentum opened their doors in 2021, just south of the […]
As reading week arrives at the University of Regina (U of R) and midterm season slows, stress and anxiety about school remain prevalent for two students on campus. Czarina Pagador, a second-year politics and international studies student, feels the heavy weight of midterms. Over the […]
University of Regina (U of R) professor Kerri Finlay says she is looking forward to sharing her research into water quality for livestock to farmers at this year’s Canadian Western Agribition (CWA). “It’s always really good to be able to get out and actually […]
Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation, located 65 kilometers east of Regina, did not have a polling station in its community, resulting in a lack of accessibility for voting for band members living on-reserve. Standing Buffalo is in the Regina – Qu’Appelle electoral district. There was a […]
Jared Valdes sighs and rubs his eyes. It has been a challenge to run a federal election campaign during the Covid-19 pandemic. “Am I looking forward to it ending? I am and I’m not,” he says with a laugh. Valdes is the campaign manager for […]
Veteran Politician Andrew Scheer Year Seventeen as Member of Parliament By Stephen Lylyk on September 20, 2021 Citizens park at Ecole Monseigneur De Laval, Pavillion secondary des Quatre-Vents on Election Day anticipating to cast their votes in the Regina Quapelle District on Election day 2021 […]
Young voters play a crucial role in our democratic process. With the next generation of voters becoming eligible to submit their ballot, the youth voter turnout is still surprisingly low. In the 2019 federal election, only 54 percent of citizens aged 18-24 exercised their right […]
Regina’s old Costco has been transformed into a democratic hub this week. The warehouse is just over 11, 000 square metres. This makes it the largest polling station in Canadian voting history, according to Marie France Kenny from Elections Canada. Wait times on election day […]
Most University of Regina students have chosen to vote in person this election. Although mail-in ballots are becoming more and more popular between electors across the country, U of R students still prefer the old methods. “I like getting out there, getting involved and being […]
Despite the September seventeenth mask mandate that was recently put into effect, the common concern amongst voter’s remains the same on this election day – is it safe for me to enter the polling stations to cast my ballot during the pandemic? Though according […]
The University of Regina halls were quiet election Monday as many students visited the polls to vote. The vacant classrooms differed greatly from the 2019 election, when students lined out the door to vote on campus. For the 2021 election, many students felt polls were […]
The Canadian election holds today, Monday 20th September 2021, and is one for my books. I’m currently experiencing this in Saskatchewan. Although I have traveled to about ten countries for work and vacation, I have never witnessed an election. I am excited to finally get […]
Federal election became one of the most important in Canadian history. According to Statistics Canada, 75 per cent of immigrants voted in the 2019 election. All Canadian residents with citizenship have a chance to vote. Immigrants who resided in Canada for 1,095 days have […]
