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Thousands of teachers pack the picket lines on Saskatchewan budget day
More than 4,000 protesters surrounded the Saskatchewan Legislative Building on budget day Wednesday, frustrated that teacher contract negotiations have gone on for this long. Music played and flags wa...
Mar 20, 2024 Teachers were at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building on Wednesday as part of a provincewide strike. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
Hoopla cancelled as Saskatchewan teachers continue labour dispute with province
REGINA - Saskatchewan's provincial high school basketball championship has been cancelled due to an escalating labour dispute between teachers and the government. The Saskatchewan High Schools Athleti...
Mar 20, 2024
$6,500 school vouchers coming to Georgia as bill gets final passage and heads to governor
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia senators gave final approval Wednesday to a plan to create a $6,500 voucher funding for private school tuition and home schooling, sending the measure to Gov. Brian Kemp for his...
Mar 20, 2024
A Nebraska bill to subject librarians to charges for giving 'obscene material' to children fails
A bill that would have held school librarians and teachers criminally responsible for providing "obscene material" to Nebraska students in grades K-12 failed to break a filibuster Wednesday in the Leg...
Mar 20, 2024
Funding for health, marshals, firefighting: Highlights of the Saskatchewan budget
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government tabled its latest budget on Wednesday. Here are some of the highlights: - A deficit of $273 million, with total spending pegged at just over $20 billion. - An extr...
Mar 20, 2024
What you need to know about Saskatchewan's provincial budget
The Government of Saskatchewan tabled its provincial budget Wednesday afternoon, outlining its revenue, spending and priorities for the year ahead. Here's what you need to know: Classrooms Thanks to a...
Mar 20, 2024
A Nebraska senator who name-checked a colleague while reading about rape is under investigation
A Republican Nebraska lawmaker who stirred a firestorm of controversy by repeatedly name-checking a fellow senator while reading a graphic account of rape from a best-selling memoir on the floor of th...
Mar 20, 2024
STF announces single-day strike Friday in Lloydminster, Horizon divisions
Teachers in the Lloydminster Public, Lloydminster Catholic and Horizon school divisions will walk off the job Friday in a single-day strike. The move is the latest in a series of sanctions announced b...
Mar 20, 2024
Saskatchewan pre-election budget pitches record spending, $273M deficit
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is promising big-ticket spending on health, education and communities along with no tax hikes and a $273-million deficit. Finance Minister Donna Harpauer introduce...
Mar 20, 2024
Hullabaloo over fate of Saskatchewan Hoopla basketball tournament overshadows budget
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is set to release its 2024 budget Wednesday, a day expected to be overshadowed by teacher protests and heightened hullabaloo over the fate of Hoopla. Hoopla, the p...
Mar 19, 2024
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8:30 - Indigenous Services Canada has informed the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations that it owes more than $28...