Saskatoon Variably cloudy in the morning becoming mainly cloudy in the afternoon. Winds light. High 11. Variably cloudy overnight. Low 5.
Friday: Sunny with cloudy periods. High 24. Cloudy periods overnight. Low 5. Regina Cloudy with sunny breaks in the morning becoming mainly cloudy in the afternoon.
Winds light. High 14. Variably cloudy overnight. Low 5. Friday: Variable cloudiness.
High 25. Cloudy periods overnight. Low 7. Battlefords Cloudy with sunny breaks in the morning becoming mainly cloudy in the afternoon. Winds light.
High 10. Variably cloudy overnight. Low 5. Friday: Sunny with cloudy periods. High 23.
Cloudy periods overnight. Low 5. Swift Current Cloudy with sunny breaks in the morning with more breaks in the afternoon. Winds light. High 19.
Variably cloudy overnight. Low 9. Friday: Sunny with cloudy periods. High 24. Cloudy periods overnight.
Low 9. Prince Albert Mainly sunny with cloudy periods in the morning becoming variably cloudy in the afternoon. High 10. Variably cloudy in the evening with isolated showers developing overnight (POP Low 4. Friday: Variable cloudiness.
High 22. Low 4. Yorkton Variably cloudy into the afternoon. Winds northerly 18 shifting to northwesterly 18 High 10. Variably cloudy overnight.
Low 3. Friday: Variable cloudiness. High 23. Isolated showers overnight. Low 7.
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HighExtreme NP4 nationalpost.com SASKATOON STARPHOENIX, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2021 CANADA Yukon showed a simple concept A the pandemic gripped Canada last year, the Yukon government introduced a simple sick-leave policy for workers in the territory that offered a maximum of 10 days wages per employee or 14-days to cover an isolation period. No note was required and local businesses were reimbursed to cover the cost of wages. The program had a sunset clause that was later extended to September 30 this year. Simple. Yet, a year later, federal and provincial governments are still squabbling over sick leave, leading to the inescapable conclusion that many of our elected leaders run a two-house paper route.
Everyone agrees that limiting outbreaks in workplaces is key to controlling the virus. The federal gov- own epidemiol- ogy report says that there have been 606 outbreaks in industrial settings, infecting 13,037 people and resulting in 24 deaths. (That seems an underestimate Ontario alone has linked 46 deaths to workplace exposure.) response last summer, at the behest of the NDP, was the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit, which pays workers $450 after tax, if they are eligible (workers who qualify have to vouch they were unable to work at least half the work week and had earned $5,000 in the previous year.) The uptake of a policy that requires workers to apply has been underwhelm ing. Critics say the sick pay is not enough and that the uncertainty and time-lag before receiving payment are disincentives. The Trudeau government initially estimated the program would provide $5 billion in benefits over two years but revised that number downward to $738 million in the recent budget.
To date, 485,120 workers have been approved, at a cost of $435 million. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, having scrapped two paid personal days for workers as part of his labour reforms when he came to power, has latterly become a convert. His government criticized Ottawa for its failure to expand the sickness benefit in the April 19 budget and this week proposed it be doubled, with the province paying for the top up. The Trudeau government turned down the suggestion, apparently unwilling to tailor a national program for one province. It has said it would help if Ontario mandated permanent sick leave in provincially regulated workplaces, effectively forcing Ford to reverse himself.
That persuaded Ontario to go it alone late on Wednesday, when labour minister Monte McNaughton and finance minister Peter Beth- lenfalvy announced the province would double the federal sickness benefit to $1,000 a week. In addition, it will reimburse employers up to $200 a day for up to three days for workers who have COVID symptoms. a game-changer that will save said McNaughton. But it appears Ottawa has not yet signed off on any deal. confident that Prime Minister Trudeau and (finance minister) Chrystia Freeland will do the right said Bethlen- falvy.
That remains to be seen. The three days of paid sick leave are COVID-relat ed, not permanent, as the feds were demanding. Other provinces may follow. In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan has said his government will in the left by the feder al program, even though his April 20 budget contained no mention of paid sick leave. But we are 411 days into a gruelling pandemic and the finish line is in sight.
Why the game changed and lives saved much sooner? Do you ever get that throbbing feeling in your temples, combined with the urge to throttle a politician? This should not be so hard. A worker who wakes up with symptoms should not have to do the mental math about how much money he or she will lose by taking the day off, or whether they have worked half the week already. Businesses that cover the wages of sick work ers shou ld know the will be reimbursed. As the Yukon has shown, this is a pandemic specific program that expires in five months, so the costs are finite. Provinces should backstop the scheme but, ideally, be supported by the federal government.
Each province should amend its employment legislation to allow workers to stay home and continue to receive wages for up to 10 days, for the duration of the pandemic. That would likely have the added benefit of reducing hospital bills. The Canadian Institute for Health Information said that COVID-re- lated stays were longer on average two weeks and more expensive $23,000 a stay than in pre-pandemic times. Ottawa, which has all the money, albeit borrowed, should not begrudge such a crucial investment in public health, especially since the existing sickness benefit is under budget. Rob Gillezeau, an associate professor of economics at the University of Victoria, said that Ottawa and the provinces have been squabbling about jurisdictional issues for a year but that a clear solution is did this a year ago and is a policy he said, pointing to its sunset cl au se as a mea ns of addressing employer concerns about sick leave programs being permanent.
am enormously frustrated. This is in the top five items of no-brainer policy Cynicism with politicians is borne from their tendency to promise to turn horses into unicorns and their subsequent inability to provide basic services. Elementary protection for front-line workers who are providing goods and services that we all rely on should have been resolved a year ago, long before dozens of workers died. National Post Twitter.com/IvisonJ COMMENT Sick pay take a year to resolve I vIson CHRIS YOUNG THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton announced a plan for paid sick leave on Wednesday, 411 days into the pandemic. John Ivison asks what took so long.
The father of a 17-year-old girl from the southern Alberta town of Magrath says convinced she died because of COVID-19. Ron Strate, a schoolteacher, says his daughter Sarah was healthy and active when her health deteriorated Monday, and she died soon after arriving at the hospital. Strate said Alberta Health Services is looking into whether she died due to a variant of COVID-19. He told CTV News that his eldest daughter, who is 20 had tested positive for the virus. He, his wife and his two younger daughters went to get tested.
of us tested positive, but my daughter Sarah got Strate told CTV. He said she was isolating in the family home and was to be retested on Wednesday before her health suddenly turned on Monday. The Canadian Press ALBERTA FATHER BELIEVES TEENAGER DIED OF COVID-19.
