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NDP criticizes Sask Party’s proposal for changing school year

DP leader Dwain Lingenfelter has criticized the Sask Party for proposing to change the school year without consulting with teachers and school boards.

However, there are some discrepancies whether Lingenfelter made his own consultations when the NDP proposed a full day of kindergarten in the current election campaign. 

Although he mentions no direct consultations with either the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation or School Boards Association, Lingenfelter insists there has been discussion on the issue.

More needs to be done to share the wealth, some say

As the boom continues to echo throughout Saskatchewan many argue politicians aren't doing enough to share the wealth.

The Regina and District Food Bank isn't hearing enough from the two big parties.

Usage at the food bank has risen 50 per cent in the last two years alone. They get up to 10,000 visitors a month.

For CEO Wayne Hellquist it's evidence that all the talk about prosperity in Saskatchewan is distracting from the reality that a quickly-growing number of people are facing.

Sask. engaged in election online

A digital consultant has crunched the numbers and determined what’s popular when talking about the Saskatchewan election online.

Mark Blevis is using a number of different tools to tune in to what the province is saying. He’s been looking at social media’s roll in elections across the country.

Sask Party defends starting school after Labour Day

The Saskatchewan Party is defending its promise to start the school year after Labour Day.

Brad Wall is assuring that all the appropriate people will be consulted after criticism there wasn’t enough consultation before the announcement.

“We’re going to, if elected, sit down immediately with the stakeholders—the school boards, the teachers—and determine how we can best implement this,” Wall said in Saskatoon on Friday.

Moose jaw collision costs $75,000

A single vehicle collision occured on the Manitoba Expressway in Moose Jaw around noon on Thursday, sending the man involved to a Regina hospital with undetermined injuries.

The collision caused an estimated $75,000 in damages.

Edited by News Talk Radio's Jared Knoll.

Post-debate poll puts Sask. Party ahead

A post-debate poll by a company called Insightrix puts the November election squarely in the hands of the Sask. Party, with about 60 per cent support of the 1,000 people polled.

The NDP got about 33 per cent, and about three per cent said they'd support the Liberals and Green Party.

Edited by News Talk Radio's Jared Knoll.

Minister Duncan denies residential schools as cultural genocide

Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan proclaimed on Wednesday that the Indian residential school system was not an act of genocide, but the product of an "education policy gone wrong".

This comes despite his boss Stephen Harper's statements of apology in 2008.

"Two primary objectives of the residential school system were to remove and isolate children from their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture."

Hazing allegations against Manitoba hockey team shocks many

The allegations of hazing levelled against the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Neepawa Natives have sent shock waves through the hockey world. The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's (SJHL) Mike Stackhouse said supervision alone isn't enough to prevent these types of incidents.

“You can’t watch guys twenty-four hours a day seven days a week,” said Stackhouse.

Education is vital and Stackhouse said steps are taken at the start of the season to help prevent such incidents.

Parties offer solutions to Sask. doctor shortage

There are many small communities across Saskatchewan that are struggling to attract and keep their doctors, many of retiring and others are simply burned out from the excessive hours of being the only doctor in town.

This election, both sides are offering alternative solutions.

Community access hospitals are the NDP’s solution to the growing doctor shortage in the province.

“If a physician happens to be away or a physician leaves the community, the hospital wouldn’t close,” said NDP Leader Dwain Lingenfelter.

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