Tag Archives: Education
Northwest School Division set to receive COVID-19 rapid tests from Saskatchewan government
Schools in the Meadow Lake area are expecting to receive an unspecified quantity of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests from the provincial government. This comes as part of the province's new measure that w...
Mar 26, 2021
Area leaders disturbed to see posters promoting racism in North Battleford community
Local area leaders are concerned about White Lives Matter posters appearing on streets in the North Battleford community recently.Little Pine First Nation Chief Wayne Semaganis was alarmed when he saw...
Mar 23, 2021
School granted opportunity to start community garden project
McKitrick Community School students will soon have an opportunity to learn first-hand how to grow fresh produce.North Battleford city council approved a proposal at its meeting Monday to allow the sch...
Mar 23, 2021
NESD Director of Education weighs in on rapid testing kits being shipped to Sask. schools
The Saskatchewan government announced on Monday that 100,000 rapid test kits were being shipped to Saskatchewan K-12 schools.North East School Division director of education Don Rempel told northeastN...
Mar 22, 2021
Rapid COVID testing heading to Sask. schools
The Government of Saskatchewan says K-12 schools across the province are currently being shipped 100,000 rapid test kits which could start being put to use later this week. The Health ministry says it...
Mar 22, 2021
Gabriel Dumont Institute announces new CEO
A Saskatchewan Mtis and nhiyaw writer whose work appears in literary magazines and anthologies across Canada is the new chief executive officer for the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and A...
Mar 22, 2021
Environmentalists want Jasper backcountry ban extended to protect remaining caribou
EDMONTON - Environmentalists and scientists are calling on Parks Canada to further restrict access to Rocky Mountain backcountry in an effort to help save the last large caribou herd in the national p...
Mar 21, 2021
Singh commits to cancel up to $20,000 in tuition in election campaign-style promise
OTTAWA - Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh renewed his pitch to young voters on Saturday, pledging that an NDP government would cancel up to $20,000 in tuition. Singh announced he would also f...
Mar 20, 2021
Two positive COVID-19 cases at St. Michael Community School
The Prince Albert Catholic School Division has reported the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) identified two positive COVID-19 cases at St. Michael Community School.According to a media release, the...
Mar 18, 2021
Young man charged in death of fellow Alberta high school student appears in court
LEDUC, Alta. - A judge has given a 19-year-old man accused of killing a fellow student at an Edmonton-area school time to find a lawyer before he returns to court.Dylan Thomas Pountney is charged with...
Mar 18, 2021