A new stamp is out featuring a longtime Indigenous chief in southern Saskatchewan. Yesterday in Fort Qu’Appelle, Canada Post unveiled a stamp for Chief Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier, the former chief of the Okanese First Nation near Fort Qu’Appelle. Part of a delegation that went to the Vatican earlier this year to speak with Pope Francis […]
Three Indigenous leaders are being honoured with their likeness being represented on stamps sold by Canada Post. The first of the three was unveiled today in Regina, as Harry Daniels was honoured. Daniels, from Regina Beach, spent 40 years advocating for Métis rights before he died in 2004. Daniels’s widow, Cheryl Storkson, said seeing her […]
Canada Post is recognizing five editorial cartoonists with stamps and one of them has a local flavour. Brian Gable is now the editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail, but back in the 80’s he spent seven years with the Regina Leader-Post. He is humbled by the honor. “There was utter shock and disbelief when […]
Canada Post has moved up deadlines for parcel delivery within Canada in response to unprecedented holiday demand caused by COVID-19 but is still telling Canadians to expect delays. While all deadlines for mail remain unchanged, the local deadline is Friday for Priority, Xpresspost, flat rate box and regular parcel services. The regional deadline is Friday […]
Police, Fire, EMS and Hazmat responded to a Canada Post mail processing facility Tuesday morning after getting a report of a suspicious package leaking its contents. The Saskatoon Fire Department had those at the facility shelter in place until fire fighters arrived. Everyone but one person was evacuated by emergency personnel, and that one person […]
It’s now crunch time to get Christmas presents in the mail. Canada Post says this time of year there is typically a 30 to 35 percent increase in the amount of mail being delivered, with that going up more this year with Black Friday and Cyber Monday being so close to the holidays this year. […]
With summer getting underway, Canada Post is reminding pet owners to keep their dogs away from mail carriers. Since more pets are spending time outdoors during the warm months, the possibility for a dog to attack a mail carrier increases. Canada Post hopes pet owners can keep their dogs away from mail boxes, screen doors, […]
