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Striking A Chord – Saskatchewan’s Education Standoff Continues

Striking A Chord – Saskatchewan’s Education Standoff Continues

Mar 25, 2024 | 9:27am
This week will no doubt see more action taking place from the province’s teachers – a clash between educators and the government has left students, teachers, and parents in limbo. At the heart of the debate – the teachers decision to impose further sanctions affecting extracurricular activities, a move met with swift condemnation from the […]
Saskatchewan has a better chance of surviving a zombie apocalypse than Alberta

Saskatchewan has a better chance of surviving a zombie apocalypse than Alberta

Mar 25, 2024 | 9:16am
The study shows that the Northwest Territories have the best chances of survival in a zombie apocalypse. Saskatchewan is the sixth safest province to live within, in the event of an apocalypse. Research by CasinosHunter analyzed various metrics, including availability of water, population density, army presence, hospitals, availability of weapons and supermarkets, to assess which places in […]
Sask. man, World Bank employee, arrested by FBI hires top trial lawyer

Sask. man, World Bank employee, arrested by FBI hires top trial lawyer

Mar 25, 2024 | 8:02am
WARNING: This story contains details of sexual assault and may be disturbing to some readers. A Saskatchewan man who works for the World Bank and was arrested by the FBI has hired a top Washington criminal defence attorney. Court documents obtained by SaskToday.ca show that he was initially represented by a public defender.  Matthew Norman Ballek, 31, who […]
Naturopathic doctors aren’t solution to primary care crisis: doctors, health experts

Naturopathic doctors aren’t solution to primary care crisis: doctors, health experts

Mar 25, 2024 | 7:52am
Vancouver naturopathic doctor Vanessa Lindsay has been treating a longtime patient’s high blood pressure through nutrition and exercise. “She’s lost weight. She’s stronger. She’s eating well. She’s hydrated. She’s sleeping better,” said Lindsay. But the patient is still on two blood pressure medications — and because naturopathic doctors in British Columbia are allowed to prescribe […]
Teachers Strike Continuing

Teachers Strike Continuing

Mar 25, 2024 | 4:36am
With no resolution on the horizon for the labour dispute between the provincial government, and the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation will be continuing its job action. The STF announced Friday there will be a province wide ban on extra curricular activities all week, except Friday, which is a holiday. Teachers will also withdraw lunch supervision on […]
3 or 4 suspects charged in Russia concert hall attack admit guilt during court hearing

3 or 4 suspects charged in Russia concert hall attack admit guilt during court hearing

Mar 24, 2024 | 4:51pm
MOSCOW (AP) — Three of the four suspects charged with carrying out the concert hall attack in Moscow that killed more than 130 people admitted guilt for the incident in a Russian court Sunday. Moscow’s Basmanny District Court formally charged Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, 32; Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, 30; Mukhammadsobir Faizov, 19; and Shamsidin Fariduni, 25, with committing […]
Commission releases interim report into unmarked graves at residential schools

Commission releases interim report into unmarked graves at residential schools

Mar 21, 2024 | 11:35am
An interim report from an international group hired to provide advice on identifying and locating the unmarked graves of children who attended residential schools says Canada should continue funding searches beyond 2025. The report from the International Commission on Missing Persons, based in The Hague, covers the work it has done so far and suggests […]
Behind the Headlines: Deconstructing the Crime Severity Index

Behind the Headlines: Deconstructing the Crime Severity Index

Mar 21, 2024 | 11:01am
 Is there any weight to the claims various municipalities alongside the City of North Battleford have made against the Crime Severity Index (CSI)? Tarah Hodgkinson, an assistant professor of criminology at Wilfried Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont. — who ran the City of North Battleford’s original public safety survey — thinks so, to a degree. […]
Moose Jaw area residents want new tech instead of new landfill

Moose Jaw area residents want new tech instead of new landfill

Mar 21, 2024 | 8:42am
Some rural residents are excited that new technology allegedly exists that converts garbage into usable materials and want city hall to use it instead of building a new area landfill.  The Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw held a public hearing at the Events Centre on March 19 to discuss the discretionary use application that the […]
Provincial budget: Classrooms, care, communities and a deficit

Provincial budget: Classrooms, care, communities and a deficit

Mar 20, 2024 | 2:15pm
The 2024-25 Saskatchewan provincial budget features major spending on education, health care, municipalities and capital investments — and has a deficit to go along with it. A projected deficit of $273.2 million is forecast in the budget tabled by Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Donna Harpauer in the legislature Wednesday. It is the final budget of her […]

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