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Saskatchewan teachers overwhelmingly reject government offer for new contract
REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers have rejected an offer from the province for a three-year contract that included wage increases and promises for more classroom funding. The Saskatchewan Teachers' Feder...
May 09, 2024
Government of Sask. touts $51.2-million investment in health career training
Funding from the Government of Saskatchewan will add 66 new training seats for health-care careers this year, and add four new domestic training programs to the province. According to the Ministry of ...
May 09, 2024
Results of teacher contract vote to be made public Thursday night: STF
Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Samantha Becotte says the results of an online vote on a provincial contract offer will be made public Thursday night. She said 13,000 teachers, including s...
May 09, 2024
Sask. education minister considering school year extension as teachers vote
REGINA - Saskatchewan's education minister is being accused of trying to influence a teachers vote after saying he's not ruling out extending the school year should educators reject his offer and take...
May 08, 2024
New Brunswick schools to have stringent cellphone policies starting September
FREDERICTON - Come September teachers in New Brunswick will get more authority to limit the use of cellphones in schools. During class time teachers will have students put their cellphones on silent m...
May 08, 2024
Arkansas cannot prevent 2 teachers from discussing critical race theory in classroom, judge rules
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom, but he stopped short of more broadly blocking...
May 08, 2024
Cockrill says ratified deal is best for students as teachers vote on offer
Over the next two days, teachers in Saskatchewan will vote on whether to accept or reject a contract offer from the provincial government. The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation agreed to take the offe...
May 08, 2024 Ahead of the teachers' vote on the government contract offer, Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill says what would be best for classrooms is a ratified deal. (Alex Brown/650 CKOM)
Nearly half of Canadians oppose university protest encampments, poll suggests
OTTAWA, Ill. - A new opinion poll suggests nearly half of Canadians oppose the pro-Palestinian encampments that have cropped up on some university campuses. Just 31 per cent of people who took the Leg...
May 08, 2024
Alabama lawmakers approve tax breaks for businesses that help employees afford child care
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation to provide state tax breaks to businesses that help their employees afford childcare. The Alabama Senate voted 3...
May 07, 2024
Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to sh...
May 07, 2024
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, July 29
Evan chats about the 79th annual Midwestern Legislative Conference, sex and intimacy tips with Natasha Salaash, cancer c...