Steven Wilson

Wednesday evening, Premier Scott Moe took to social media to announce what would be included for education in the upcoming provincial budget. He stated there would be an increase of $180 million in school operating funding, just over nine percent from the levels for the current fiscal year. Of that, $356 million would be for classroom support.  

Measles. In recent weeks, cases of childhood illness have been showing up in Canada. While there has only been a handful reported, including here in Saskatchewan, it has given pause for thought in the medical community.  

Ahead of their annual convention in Regina next week, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities is expressing concerns about a lack of resources and education that is made available to elected officials who work in municipal government.  

Minister of Crown Investment Corporation Dustin Duncan found himself answering about expenses from his trip to Paris in November for the World Nuclear Exhibition. He was at the event in his role as the Minister Responsible for SaskPower and attended to participate in a panel with fellow ministers from Ontario and New Brunswick, as well as meet with representatives from countries and companies in the nuclear sector.  

In October, it was announced SaskEnergy stop collecting the carbon tax on home heating effective January 1st. The move was in response to the federal government announcing they were pausing the collection of carbon tax on home heating oil, and providing no further exemptions.  

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities will be holding their annual convention in Regina in two weeks, and the association’s president, Ray Orb, is looking forward to it.  

“I know there’s a lot of information sharing at those meetings, but the attraction, I know for me from attending these conventions for a number of years, is listening to the premier, it’s listening to the leader of the opposition, too,” Orb told Discover Weyburn.  

The official forecast for today is calling for a daytime high of 11°. While not quite a record, it will be quite the difference from the -21° that Estevan was at yesterday morning. It will be a swing of nearly 32 degrees in just under 36 hours.  

While that may be the forecast, not everyone agrees with it.  

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities is calling on the provincial government to do more regarding the staffing shortages when it comes to healthcare in rural Saskatchewan. The first step they are asking the province to take is the reinstatement of the Grow Your Own Nurse Practitioner Program.  

The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation announced the next round of rotating job action Tuesday morning, and the withdrawal of lunch hour supervision will be returning to southeast Saskatchewan by the end of the week.  

Every school year, there comes a short period where it seems every other person in the school is sick, be it students, teachers, or other staff. The types of illnesses seem to vary each year as well, but are in most cases illnesses which are easily passed from one person to another but aren’t necessarily severe.