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Art of medicine: Quebec doctors in training visit museum to better diagnose patients
MONTREAL - Classes on disease and anatomy are par for the course in traditional medical training, but a new program at a Quebec university is making visits to the art museum a mandatory part of the cu...
Mar 16, 2025
Nova Scotia NDP urging public to weigh in on the government's 'overreaching' bills
HALIFAX - A series of contentious Nova Scotia government bills - including one that would lift a ban on fracking and uranium mining - come before a legislature committee next week, and the province's ...
Mar 13, 2025
The legacy of COVID: The 'new normal' at school and work
This week marks the five-year anniversary of COVID-19 arriving in Saskatchewan. Public health measures starting being laid down, and within two weeks tens of thousands of people were working from home...
Mar 13, 2025 Nurse Leah Sawatsky receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 15, 2020. (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Saskatchewan's budget will include cut to education property taxes
The Saskatchewan spring budget is more than a week away, but at the annual SARM convention on Tuesday, the province gave the audience a taste of what they can expect in terms of taxes. Government Rela...
Mar 11, 2025 The provincial government announced Tuesday the upcoming budget would include a cut to the education property tax mill rate. (CJME files)
Child-care providers, NDP push province to extend $10-a-day program
Some Saskatchewan child-care providers feel uncertain about their future, as the provincial government has yet to extend its Early Learning and Child Care Program. The current agreement for the progra...
Mar 11, 2025 “With them not signing this new agreement, it really puts everybody's futures up in the air, because we don't know what that's going to look like,” said Cara Werner, with the Southeast Saskatchewan Directors Association. March 10, 2025. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
Yukon signs $7.4m school food program agreement with Ottawa
WHITEHORSE - Yukon and the federal government have reached a $7.4-million agreement to improve school food for students in the territory. The agreement will see the federal government invest the fundi...
Mar 10, 2025
Alberta becomes last province to join Ottawa's national school nutrition program
EDMONTON - The Alberta and federal governments have ratified a $42-million agreement to expand meal programs for students. Officials say the federal money will come over three years and supplements Al...
Mar 10, 2025
Saskatchewan, Ottawa sign $16M deal on school food program
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government has signed a $16-million deal with Ottawa to expand school food programs. The agreement will see the federal government invest the money over three years. Ottawa s...
Mar 10, 2025
Sask. signs on to National School Food Program in $15.8M agreement
Saskatchewan and the federal government have signed a $15.8 million, three-year agreement under Canada's National School Food Program. The program, which was launched by Ottawa last year, aims to prov...
Mar 10, 2025
Education Minister Everett Hindley calls new teacher contract a win for students
The province is hearing from the Minister of Education Everett Hindley for the first time since the new teacher's collective bargaining agreement was announced. On Wednesday, Samantha Becotte, Saskatc...
Mar 06, 2025
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