April

Airfares continue to rise from last year — and soar above pre-pandemic levels

Airfares continue to rise from last year — and soar above pre-pandemic levels

Jul 16, 2024 | 10:41am
Statistics Canada says airfares rose two per cent year-over-year in June, and continued to soar above pre-pandemic levels. Figures from the consumer price index show the increase follows a 4.5 per cent year-over-year bump in May and a fairly flat April. Prices also stood nearly 19 per cent above what travellers paid for their plane […]
April snowstorms aren’t unusual

April snowstorms aren’t unusual

Apr 17, 2024 | 11:30am
We really can’t complain about the past winter we’ve had….yet we’re probably going to complain about the winter because we’re Canadian and we love talking about the weather. Despite complaining about winter temperatures, we love to brag about how cold it gets to others who come from (or live in) warm countries, even though they’ve […]

Sask government offers supplemental aid for producers who lost livestock in April snow storms

Jun 16, 2022 | 2:00pm

The Saskatchewan government has announced supplemental Disaster aid for farmers who suffered significant losses from recent spring storms. The support will help producers who lost livestock in April snow storms and did not qualify under original disaster assistance. The exective director of the provincial disaster aid program Noel McAvena, says the new program assists those […]

April weather stats show very dry and cooler than normal

May 5, 2021 | 5:31am

Environment Canada says precipitation in Regina last month was 77 percent below normal. Meteorologist Terri Lang says Regina had 5.6 millimeters of precipitation last month, well below the average of 24 millimeters. She adds it was cooler than normal. Lang says the average temperature in Regina in April was 3.9 degrees, 9-tenths of one degree […]