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STF president explains decision to turn down arbitration in contract dispute
Back in March, it was seen as part of the solution. Now, teachers are saying no. The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation rejected an offer to take contract negotiations to binding arbitration on Wednesd...
Jun 06, 2024 Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Samantha Becotte speaks to reporters in Regina. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
B.C. teachers' union denies Holocaust education group funds, recognition: advocates
VANCOUVER - Jewish organizations say the British Columbia Teachers' Federation has denied specialist recognition of a Holocaust education group, making it ineligible to receive union funding as a teac...
Jun 05, 2024
STF declines binding arbitration, declares bargaining impasse
The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation rejected an offer to take contract negotiations to binding arbitration. In a statement, the federation declared a bargaining impasse and said work-to-rule sanctio...
Jun 05, 2024 Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan offering hands-on oil and gas courses for high school students
The Government of Saskatchewan is working to educate young people on the oil and gas industry through new high school courses. The courses - at the 20 and 30 level - will be offered to all high school...
Jun 05, 2024 The new courses are meant to give high school students hands-on experience in the oil and gas sector. (SaskEnergy/Submitted)
Mother alleges 7-year-old son assaulted at Legacy Christian Academy
The mother of a seven-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with autism is speaking out after he recently told her his gym teacher at Legacy Christian Academy allegedly hit him twice on the head during ...
Jun 05, 2024 The mother of an autistic child is alleging a teacher at Legacy Christian Academy assaulted her child. (650 CKOM file photo)
B.C. school district investigates exam asking pupils to argue if Israel should exist
BURNABY, B.C. - The school district in Burnaby, B.C., has launched an investigation into what it says was a harmful exam that asked students to make arguments about whether Jewish people deserve or ne...
Jun 04, 2024
Higgs's attack on sex-education talk part of his political strategy, academics say
Two education professors at the University of New Brunswick say the premier's recent push against a sexual health presentation in high schools is at least partly motivated by political aims. Casey Bur...
Jun 03, 2024
Police halt pro-Palestinian encampment at Quebec's City's Université Laval
MONTREAL - Quebec City police say they have forced protesters to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment that was being set up on the grounds of Universit Laval. The force said today that three people ...
Jun 02, 2024
Saskatchewan teachers and province back in talks, minister wants binding arbitration
REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers and the government are heading back to bargaining, a day after educators narrowly rejected the province's latest offer for a new three-year deal. The Saskatchewan Teache...
May 31, 2024
Slide shared by N.B. premier 'gross misrepresentation' of sexual health presentation
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The sexual education slide that angered New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is the first of more than 100 in a presentation about healthy relationships and sexual health that is give...
May 31, 2024
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