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Murray Wood says seed sales are taking off this spring. Food prices are likely convincing some to grow their own vegetab...
Tag Archives: Education
Sadness and silence grips Canada's universities in honour of plane crash victims
A sombre silence fell across Canadian university campuses Wednesday as the institutions honoured the 176 lives lost in a plane crash in Iran last week. Many students, faculty and resear...
Jan 15, 2020
Deaf-blind Ontario woman suing governments over student loan debt inequality
TORONTO - A disabled woman is in an Ontario court this week seeking changes to Canada's student loan program that she argues would level the playing field for people with disabilities. Jasmin Simpson,...
Jan 14, 2020
Fewer trees, less undergrowth: Study says wildfires changing boreal forest
EDMONTON - The increasing frequency of wildfires in Canada's boreal forest may be permanently changing one of the largest intact ecosystems left on Earth, research suggests. "We feel pretty confi...
Jan 12, 2020
Canadian medical students call for better education on health and climate change
VANCOUVER - Canadian medical schools have not adequately addressed the urgent need for training related to planetary health and climate change, and members of the Canadian Federation of Medical Studen...
Jan 11, 2020
Province names members of educational committee
Six former teachers are among the eight people named to the Ministry of Education's committee on class size and composition. "The voice of parents, teachers, staff, leaders and Indigenous people was i...
Nov 21, 2019 (980 CJME file photo)
STF says lack of collective bargaining progress 'frustrating'
Saskatchewan teachers are no closer to a new contract despite months of bargaining. The government trustee bargaining committee met with the teacher bargaining committee to negotiate for the 10th time...
Nov 13, 2019 (980 CJME file photo)
Concerns raised about Indigenous graduation rates
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) and the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) are calling for more support to increase Indigenous graduation rates from Saskatchewan high school...
Nov 01, 2019 Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations call for immediate investment in education (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Sask. Party shuts down emergency debate on education
The Saskatchewan NDP believes there's a crisis happening in the province's schools, but when its education critic tried to start an emergency debate on the subject after the first Question Period of t...
Oct 24, 2019 Education Minister Gordon Wyant. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Visually impaired students in Saskatchewan get a helping hand with new donation
Around 250 visually impaired students in Saskatchewan will be able to access new braille materials, thanks to a donation from the Canada Post Community Foundation. On Thursday, the Saskatchewan Altern...
Oct 10, 2019
Parents voice concern over Harbour Landing School overcrowding
Within the next decade, a number of schools in Regina -- including two that opened as recently as 2017 -- are expected to be at capacity. According to the Regina Public Schools' Accommodation Review r...
Oct 01, 2019 More than 100 parents gathered in the gymnasium at Harbour Landing School to discuss its overcrowding issue with the Regina public school board on Sept. 30, 2019. (Jessie Anton/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: We are feeling the pinch of rising prices, even beyond the gas pumps
Costs have already gone up with airlines. Parcel and delivery services could also increase, and even ride sharing may ja...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
8:30 - With the by-elections now decided, Mark Carney's Liberals have secured a majority in the House of Commons, comple...