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Sask. Party government promotes path to recovery in billboard campaign

The Saskatchewan Party government has launched an advertising campaign that promotes recovery and addictions treatment. 

It’s understood that the billboard campaign is featured around the province, with a significant ad buy in Saskatoon and Regina. The billboards promote a provincial government website that lists mental health and addictions services and information.

As concerns about drug decriminalization and safe drug supply policies in British Columbia and elsewhere have become topics of concern, the Saskatchewan Party government has promoted a “recovery-oriented system of care” (ROSC) approach to mental health and addictions. ROSC’s purpose is to integrate a variety of services and coordinate them interchangeably as a person progresses towards health and well-being.

Last month, Saskatchewan signed an information-sharing partnership with the Alberta and Ontario governments on their shared move to a recovery-oriented system of care.

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Teachers, government head back to the bargaining table

After a resounding ‘No’ vote last week, Saskatchewan teachers and the provincial government are back at the bargining table.

Yesterday, representatives from the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) and the Government Trustee Bargaining Committee (GTBC) resumed talks in effort to come to a new collective agreement. The STF has been without an agreement since last summer.

According to the Regina Leader-Post, talks were set to resume yesterday in Saskatoon and will continue today. Sticking points for the STF continue to be funding and support for classroom complexity and classroom sizes, as well as compensation.

Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill was featured in a video this week where he congratulated students on their upcoming graduation and sends gratitude to teachers.

(Regina Leader-Post)

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NDP introduces slew of legislation on penultimate day of spring session

On the second-last day of the spring legislative session, the Saskatchewan NDP have introduced a series of new pieces of legislation. 

The NDP’s private members bills are largely symbolic in nature, with today being the final sitting of the Legislative Assembly before the fall election. The bills will very likely “die on the order paper”, or expire, without going through committee and a full vote of the assembly. Legislation introduced by opposition members are rarely passed.

Regina Elphinstone-Centre MLA Meara Conway introduced five pieces of legislation, including amendments to address conflicts of interest for MLAs, amendements to the province’s lobbyist legislation, legislation regarding freedom of information requests, and “Betty’s Law” relating to access to child welfare records.

Conway also introduced Bill 619, which would ban corporate and union donations in Saskatchewan and cap individual donations. The NDP has campaigned on political finance reform in previous elections.

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• Justin Trudeau has recently made a push on YouTube, but how does his performance there compare to Pierre Poilievre’s? (Cole Hogan/X)

• With an election on the horizon, Poilievre's Conservatives sign up dozens of new candidates (CBC News)

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