“"The result of this vote is a message to government and the Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA) that teachers need to see real changes to classroom complexity and compensation. In feedback from members, we heard clearly that their priorities haven't been adequately addressed." #Saskatchewan#Education#Skpoli
A #Saskatchewan man who had a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old girl he met on #Tinder successfully appealed to shorten release conditions barring him from online dating.
The three appeal court judges who heard the case did not accept Howitt’s argument that the release conditions should be scrapped, but instead “calibrated to restrict his opportunities to have contact with children in similar circumstances.”
They #murdered this young #bear & got off on killing it 🤬
The #RCMP spokesperson said police were in communication with the #Saskatchewan Conservation Officer Service throughout Thursday, but there were no conservation officers on site when the bear was shot.
People in a local Facebook group expressed #outrage about a photo circulating on social media of two RCMP officers posing with the dead bear in the bed of a pickup truck.
“The Speaker of the Saskatchewan Legislature has cut up his party membership card and accused some members in Premier Scott Moe's caucus of intimidating him to the point that he fears the government house leader is packing a handgun.”
“#Regina astronomy professor Samantha Lawler… noted large chunks of metal from space have recently been found in Australia and Washington state, and one smashed through the roof on a house in Florida.”
“Cases of infant syphilis have been soaring recently in the United States. Earlier this month, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) urged syphilis screening for all pregnant women.”
“Every 4 hrs, one #Canadian acquires HIV. Our rates are not going down & #Canada is at the bottom of the #G7countries in terms of reducing the number of new HIV cases each year.
According to #PublicHealth Agency of Canada, in 2022, Canada saw a 25% increase of new #HIV diagnosis over 2021 statistics. #Saskatchewan is leading the country in terms of new cases followed by #Manitoba.
“This rise in new cases has not been seen in over a decade,” said the #AIDSfoundation.
A damning finding but not surprising. #SaskGov failed citizens.
“Newly obtained internal data shows the Saskatchewan government knew COVID-19 was spreading at an "exponential" rate in the fall of 2021, providing new insight into what officials knew before a devastating COVID-19 wave hit the province…days before the provincial government publicly declined to re-introduce measures doctors said were urgently needed to stop the spread of the virus.“