Prince Albert Daily Herald
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The Saskatchewan Rivers School Division saw no surprises in the education portion of the Provincial Budget announced Tuesday in the Legislature. According to director of education Robert Bratvold the education budget was as the division anticipated.
“It recognizes that there are fiscal challenges and implications. Locally it was pretty well exactly what we got last year plus an increase to account for the payment for teacher’s collective bargaining salary increase,” Bratvold said.
According to the province’s release Tuesday, the 27 school divisions will receive $1.96 billion in school operating funding for the 2021-22 school year, an increase of $19.2 million over the previous year. This includes fully funding the 2.0 per cent salary increase as part of the Teachers’ Collective Bargaining Agreement.
(Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
It appears an ambitious goal to get vaccines in the arms of all adults in Saskatchewan has become even more ambitious.
During a provincial COVID-19 briefing Wednesday, chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab once again asked everyone to “hold the line” and “stay the course” for the next several weeks, even though variants of concern (VOCs) continue to spread in southern Saskatchewan and now in the Saskatoon region.
That’s because he says if all goes according to plan, everyone over the age of 18 will “have access” to their first shot in four to six weeks, including those 50 and older by April 15.
Pandemic
by Stephen Whitworth
More than a year after it started, Covid-19 is on the rise again in Saskatchewan, more than 200 new cases most days, record numbers of people in hospital ICU beds, and schools in some (but not all) parts of the province shifting to remote learning.
With new variants making up an increasing proportion of cases, though, the pandemic is scarier than ever.
Every part of life is affected: seeing our friends, visiting family, shopping and sending kids to school. Every person we interact with carries a risk of infecting us. To use vernacular we at this newspaper are fond of, it pretty much sucks butt for everyone.
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