REGINA, Sask.— The second stage of the government’s $21-million highway route, designed to speed the delivery of canola to crushing facilities, was unveiled Monday, CBC reports.

"The corridor will allow more trucks delivering canola to access crushing facilities without the need to travel through the city," said Jim Reiter, minister of Highways and Infrastructure, speaking of the new north-south highway that is intended to support the two $190-million canola-crushing plants, a project announced in 2006.

REGINA – A debate is brewing in Saskatchewan where the province’s second private wine store opened earlier this week.

The new location sells 1,000 varieties and claims that the majority of stock can not be found anywhere else in the province. The selection may vary from government-run liquor stores, but the private entrepreneur is still a franchisee regulated and supplied by the government.

According to a recent story on cbc.ca, a new proposal by the government of Saskatchewan is targeting the time-honoured tradition of lighting up a smoke on an outdoor bar or restaurant patio, and the province’s hospitality industry is hot over the issue.

If the provincial no-smoking law is amended, it could outright ban patio smoking. A similar ban already exists in the city of Saskatoon, though Regina and other regions remain smoker-friendly toward patio dwellers. When anti-smoking rules were levied in Saskatchewan several years ago, some industry insiders say hospitality businesses took a 25 per cent hit, from which it never recovered.