One man is facing several charges, including driving while impaired, following investigation into a stolen vehicle in Regina.

According to Regina Police Service (RPS), officers responded to a report about the vehicle on Wednesday around 1 p.m. and attended the 3600 block of East Haughton Road.

A vehicle matching the description was found travelling northbound on Woodland Grove. Police say they attempted a traffic stop but the suspect continued driving.

The vehicle was then seen travelling eastbound on Arcola Avenue a short time later, where it pulled over, police said.

RPS claims the driver left the vehicle and attempted to run away, but officers were able to take him into custody around 1:30 p.m.

A 28-year-old man has been charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, impaired operation of a conveyance by alcohol, exceeding 80mg of alcohol within two hours of operating a vehicle, theft of a motor vehicle, flight from a peace officer, and failure to comply with a probation order.

He is scheduled to make his first court appearance on April 29.

Regina’s Urgent Care Centre (UCC) will once again have its operating hours cut short on Friday.

It will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. before returning to its regular 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. schedule on Saturday.

“These service adjustments are due to physician availability and to proactively ensure the availability of services for our patients,” read a public service announcement from the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA).

Despite originally being envisioned and advertised as a centre that would operate 24/7, Regina’s UCC has failed to do so since it first opened in July 2024.

The SHA has reported persistent issues with physician availability at the UCC, but the province has still stated its desire to build a second urgent care centre in Regina as well as a second one in Saskatoon.

The SHA advised people experiencing medical emergencies to contact 9-1-1 or proceed to the nearest emergency department at Regina General Hospital or Pasqua Hospital.

For non-emergency care, SHA recommended accessing information and care by calling Healthline 811, visiting a walk-in clinic, or connecting with a pharmacy.

A Regina physician is facing accusations of unprofessional conduct after prescribing sleeping pills to patients under false pretenses, and using them himself.

Dr. James Coruzzi admitted to six charges including improper prescribing, dishonesty and breaches of undertaking.

The charges alleged Coruzzi prescribed Zolpidem (better known as Ambien) to patients but then kept the medication for his own use.

According to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (CPSS), four of the charges related to the methods by which Coruzzi acquired the medication, either through prescribing to patients himself or asking other physicians to prescribe the drugs under false pretenses.

Coruzzi had a pre-existing agreement with the College not to prescribe Ambien except to patients in a hospital setting and not to obtain Ambien from any prescriber other than a psychiatrist or family physician, so two of the charges were consequences of breaking that agreement.

The charges Coruzzi admitted to are not criminal.

During its March 27 meeting, the CPSS Council accepted an undertaking from Coruzzi and imposed an in-person reprimand, a suspension for six months retroactive to Nov. 7, 2025, a successful completion of an ethics course, and a fine totalling $12,711.35 to be paid before May 27, 2027.

Coruzzi’s medical license will remain suspended if the costs are not paid in full.

Healthcare for Saskatchewan women continues to be a dilemma, leading many to turn to nurse practitioners. For women across the province, nurse practitioners say availability continues to be an issue.

“Not only access, but just quality of care,” said Dana Yee, a nurse practitioner at Revive IV & Wellness. “We just need to do whatever we can so that more people can see more providers and have safe, quality care, not just more access. It’s way more complex than people think of how to fix the issue, because it’s broken.”

As a private practitioner, Yee says the public system has gaps in the number of providers available, as well as time constraints due to short doctors’ appointments,

Yee offers hour-long appointments, which she says allows enough time for patients to voice all of their concerns and create a plan.

“I think the biggest thing that I hear is women not being heard, feeling that they go to any kind of health care provider, whether it’s their own provider or one that they just see,” she said. “They’re [the patients] taking on these huge symptoms of extreme pain issues in their cycle, mood issues, hormonal changes, and they’re not being heard. They’re being completely normalized.”

Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill says that appointment lengths are up to individual practitioners.

“Physicians are compensated under a variety of different models in the province, whether that’s on a contract or on a fee for service basis,” he said on Wednesday morning. “Really, appointment lengths are up to the individual practitioner.”

In early March, the province opened up another round of nurse practitioner intakes in search of primary care for patients. That deadline passed in late March, which looks to recruit nurse practitioners that will ensure that every Saskatchewan family has access to a primary care provider by the end of 2028.

“This is not an ‘either or’ situation, this is an ‘and’ conversation that we need to have in our province,” he said. “We need more physicians and we need more nurse practitioners. I think that’s exactly why we’ve seen a lot of interest in expanding the role of nurse practitioners, but also the availability of nurse practitioners in the province.”

The latest provincial budget has set aside funding for additional nurse practitioner contracts and is putting a million dollars towards a pilot project to enable select nurse practitioners, in order to hire additional primary team members to increase access for patients.

According to Yee, common reasons for patients to visit Revive IV & Wellness are youth that need contraceptive care, women of childbearing age with cycle changes and fertility issues, women that need prenatal care, and those in perimenopause and menopause stages of their life.

The Sask. Party and the NDP find themselves quarrelling once more about the provincial government, more than three weeks after the budget was unveiled.

On Thursday morning, the NDP once again called into question the province’s claim about Saskatchewan being the most affordable place to live – saying this was undermined by the province’s budget document itself.

“For months, Scott Moe has been repeating his claim that Saskatchewan is the most affordable place to live, all while Saskatchewan residents pay more in taxes and power bills than in Vancouver,” NDP MLA Sally Housser said.

“Maybe he forgot to read his own budget — or maybe this is just more Sask. Party math.”

Housser specifically pointed to a graph comparing the cost of taxes, utilities and housing across 10 municipalities across Canada – saying that a family of four in Saskatchewan making $75,000 a year is paying more than $1,100 more annually in provincial taxes and electricity than a family in Vancouver.

The NDP reiterated its request for the government to cease its rate hikes for power and car insurance.

However, the province rebuked the province’s claims and accused the NDP of misrepresenting the data.

“Once again, the NDP is using selective and partial information to create a false narrative and run down Saskatchewan, in this case, making the ridiculous claim that it is more expensive to live in Saskatchewan than Vancouver,” read a statement from the Government of Saskatchewan.

“Pages 61 and 62 of this year’s provincial budget show that Saskatchewan is the most affordable place in Canada for a family of four at various levels of income to live, while NDP BC is the most expensive place in Canada to live.”

The graph listed the cost for Regina’s total taxes and utilities at $7,766 compared with Vancouver’s $7,753. However, the combined cost for total taxes, utilities and housing was $29,388 for Regina in 2026 compared to Vancouver’s $77,324, according to the province.

After 15 years in litigation, Bayer Pharmaceuticals has agreed to a $9 million settlement after women who took the Yasmin birth control pill developed blood clots and gallbladder disease.

The class action stems from combined liability claims launched in Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan alleging Bayer, the maker of the oral contraceptives Yasmin and Yaz, was negligent in its marketing and distribution of the products and sold them without adequate warnings about the potential for serious side effects.

An initial statement of claim was filed in Saskatchewan in 2009.

By 2013, Health Canada revealed it had received reports about at least 23 women who died after taking one of the two commonly prescribed birth control pills, and over 300 reports of adverse reactions, including fainting spells, non-fatal pulmonary embolisms and blood clots in the legs.

The Saskatchewan lawsuit carried on for years, and after mutliple applications, that claim was certified as a multi-jurisdictional class action in October 2018.

The lawsuits sought damages for the girls and women who used Bayer’s YAZ or Yasmin birth control pills and developed blood clots and gallbladder disease, as well as any consequent claims of their family members.

“The road to settlement was protracted, hard-fought and at arm’s length,” Justice Rochelle Wempe wrote last month in her Court of King’s Bench decision that formally approved the settlement on behalf of the plaintiffs in Saskatchewan.

The pharmaceutical giant, commonly known as the inventor of Aspirin, struck the deal with the plaintiffs last summer, and courts in Ontario and Quebec have already formally approved the settlement.

The settlement provides $8.1 million in compensation for the women and their families, with a portion covering legal and administrative fees. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the three jurisdictions will receive a 30 per cent share of the settlement.

That amounts to just over $758,000 for the Saskatchewan-based legal counsel, after the inclusion of sales tax, plus additional disbursements totalling over $252,000.

“This amount is significantly less than the time docketed by class counsel,” Wempe said.

In sum, the counsel in each jurisdiction will receive over $1 million in compensation for their work.

Another $905,000 will be provided to provincial health insurers in Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan based on the distribution of the products by province.

Bayer has also agreed to pay a small $6,000 honoraria, to be divided equally between the representative plaintiffs in Ontario and Saskatchewan.

In her decision last month, Wempe ordered an additional honorarium of $1,000 each for the Saskatchewan plaintiffs “for their time and extra efforts pursuing this litigation over the past 15 years.”

Bayer and its subsidiaries have agreed to pay, but continue to deny the allegations.

Prime Minister Mark Carney reaffirmed Canada is a “strong NATO member” focused on Arctic security Thursday, responding to questions about the future of the transatlantic military alliance.

Carney was asked about U.S. President Donald Trump’s displeasure with NATO’s participation, or lack thereof, in its military campaign in Iran. Earlier that morning, Trump reiterated that gripe on Truth Social.

“None of these people, including our own, very disappointing, NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!!” he wrote. It was the second statement on the alliance in less than 24 hours – Trump wrote the evening prior that NATO “WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN.

“REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” he concluded, referencing his previous musings about taking control of the island, which is part of the Realm of Denmark, a NATO ally.

n Thursday, Carney called back to a recent two per cent military spending landmark as evidence of Canada’s commitment to NATO. Though the number is not important, he added – “what’s important, first and foremost, is protecting Canadians.”

To do that, he said, Canada is working more closely with “subsets” of NATO allies, including the Nordic countries, the U.K., the Netherlands and Germany, to protect “our Arctic.”

That protection is critical to Canada, “regardless of how NATO itself evolves.”

NATO ‘failed’: Trump

The question of how the alliance will evolve has been a recurring question in Washington.

On Wednesday, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was asked to respond to a joint statement from Carney and other NATO leaders affirming their support to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – a key channel bordering Iran which in peacetime, supports the travel of 20 per cent of the world’s crude oil shipments.

As house prices fall in several major markets, Saskatchewan is seeing prices head the other way – once again setting new records.

Last month, the average benchmark price of a home in Saskatchewan reached $374,100, up from February’s average of $363,800, according to the Saskatchewan Realtors Association’s (SRA) latest report.

Saskatchewan logged 1,256 residential home sales in March, a slight decrease of one per cent from the record-high 2025 but still 10 per cent above long-term historical averages.

However, the release stated that new listings (1,808) were down compared to last year and were 25 per cent below long-term averages, even if the figure represented an increase from February.

Although the prices are impacting affordability, sales are remaining steady.

“This is where supply constraints start to have real impact,” said SRA CEO Chris Guérette in a Monday news release.

“We are seeing record prices not because demand is accelerating, but because there simply are not enough homes available. Saskatchewan has long been one of the most affordable places to buy a home in Canada, but that advantage is being tested in real time.’

The SRA said inventory levels were 50 per cent lower than normal levels for this time of year and price growth was recorded across every community for the third straight month.

“In other parts of the country, the story is about slowing markets and rising inventory,” Guérette said. “In Saskatchewan, it’s the opposite. Demand is still there, but supply hasn’t kept pace. That imbalance is what’s driving price growth and putting pressure on buyers, particularly those trying to enter the market for the first time.”

The SRA added that the slower start to spring has delayed the influx of listings that usually happens this time of year.

“As we move further into the spring market, the key question is whether supply can respond,” Guérette said. “We have witnessed this in regions where inventory improves, sales activity follows. But without a meaningful increase in listings, we will continue to see upward pressure on prices and increasing challenges around affordability.

The Northern, Prince Albert, Swift Current-Moose Jaw and Yorkton-Melville economic regions all reported sales above the 10-year-average.

Regina-Moose Mountain and Saskatoon-Biggar had the most strained market conditions of all six economic regions, according to the SRA.

Regina, Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Yorkton, Saskatoon, Swift Current, Martensville and Warman all reported record-high benchmark prices.

City of Regina

The average price of a home in Regina increased to $343,700 in March, up from $336,400 in February.

Sales remained strong in the Queen City as 313 were reported last month.

This figure was up five per cent from 2025 and were 16 per cent above the 10-year average. This was a strong follow to the record-setting 2025.

“New listings declined by four percent year-over-year and over 20 percent compared to the 10-year average,” the SRA said.

“When paired with strong March sales, Regina currently has 1.7 months of supply, over 60 percent below the typical level for this time of year. One hundred and eighty one of the 522 available units at month’s end are conditionally sold, leaving only 341 active properties on the market heading into April.”

City of Saskatoon

Saskatoon’s average benchmark price shot up to a record $435,200 in March from $421,600 in February.

The city reported 388 sales in March which was down four per cent from last year but still eight per cent above the 10-year-average.

“Despite first quarter sales trailing impressive 2025 levels, year-to-date sales currently sit six percent above long-term, historical trends,” the release read.

“New listings improved compared to March 2025 but remain well below 10-year trends. As a result, the Bridge City continues to report the tightest market conditions in the province, with 1.6 months of supply heading into a busy spring market.”

According to the report, nearly 200 of the 638 available units were conditionally sold at the end of the month – leaving just 440 active properties on the market.

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