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Students take a lesson in curling at the Brier
Anybody going to the Tim Horton's Brier can learn a few lessons on curling, and even some of the teams playing in the bonspiel get schooled. But, learning about the sport is exactly what a school grou...
Mar 07, 2018 Students from Stewart Nicks School in Grand Coulee cheer for Team Sask at the Tim Horton's Brier March 6, 2018. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Regina high school marks Pink Day with anti-bullying rally
Schools and workplaces are turning pink Wednesday to send a message against bullying. The Red Cross and a couple of Saskatchewan Roughriders are visiting Regina's Thom Collegiate in the morning to hol...
Feb 28, 2018
'Strength and resilience:' Riders Spencer Moore visits La Loche
He tried doing taxes and being a salesman, but no offseason work Spencer Moore found has been as rewarding as his role with the Red Cross. Moore is part of the Imagine No Bullying program that is a pa...
Dec 12, 2017 Roughrider full back Spencer Moore traveled to five northern Saskatchewan communities to spread an anti-bullying message including speaking to children and athletes in La Loche. (Cameco Community/Twitter)
Viral video of Tennessee boy asks 'why do they bully?'
A heartbreaking video from a Tennessee boy asking "why do they bully" has gone viral this weekend. On Friday, Keaton Jones' mother posted a video on Facebook after she had to pick her son up from scho...
Dec 11, 2017 A video of Keaton Jones crying to his mom and asking why kids bully him has gone viral. (Facebook)
Sask. school boards want legal age for pot to be 22
Saskatchewan school boards want to have a say in marijuana legislation, starting with setting the legal age limit at 22. The Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA) sent out a statement outlinin...
Dec 06, 2017
Education minister reaffirms support for treaty education
Saskatchewan's education minister is apologizing after an uproar about her comments about Indigenous education Education Minister Bronwyn Eyre apologized for discussing her son's homework in a public ...
Nov 14, 2017 Saskatchewan Minister of Education Bronwyn Eyre. (Government of Saskatchewan)
Regina students lay poppies on graves of war veterans
The dark reality of what war truly means came to light for some Regina elementary school students Monday. After joining in the Queen City's very first No Stone Left Alone Remembrance Ceremony, more th...
Nov 07, 2017 Grade 7 and and 8 students lay poppies on the graves of war veterans at the Regina Cemetery as part of the No Stone Left Alone Remembrance Ceremony Nov. 6, 2017 (Jessie Anton/980 CJME)
Saskatoon school board responds to controversial crossword
For the second time in just over two weeks, an outdated homework assignment has come back to haunt a Saskatchewan school. First, it was a word search containing long-discarded terms for Indigenous peo...
Oct 25, 2017 A decades-old crossword puzzle containing long-discarded terms for Indigenous people was handed out as a homework assignment at a Saskatoon school in October 2017. (Facebook/Jaris Swidrovich)
Saskatchewan teacher mistakenly hands out offensive Thanksgiving puzzle
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A school division in southern Saskatchewan is apologizing after a handout with offensive words was mistakenly given to students. A Thanksgiving work package supplied last week to a ...
Oct 11, 2017 Photo of wordsearch using offensive terms for Indigenous people handed out by a teacher in a Moose Jaw school in October 2017. (Jo Chrona @luudisk/Twitter)
New letter sent to Catholic schools regarding HPV vaccine
Saskatchewan bishops have sent out a new letter regarding the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine after parents mistakenly received one that hadn't been updated in about a decade. On Sept. 25, a letter...
Oct 06, 2017
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Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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