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Letters: Moe, Cockrill should put themselves in teachers’ shoes

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Let’s throw 5 new workers members at Schooling Minister Jeremy Cockrill and Premier Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Social gathering MLAs’ workers. Two can’t communicate English, one is non verbal and autistic, one has extreme cerebral palsy and in a wheelchair and one is a runner with ADHD and fairly violent.

Price range cuts don’t enable for any help workers. However these individuals have each proper to be built-in into the office. Welcome to a day within the lifetime of a few of our Saskatchewan academics.

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Corinne Schemmer, Regina

Empty SHC items an answer to scarcity

It’s certainly hopeful that the federal authorities, addressing a nationwide housing disaster, guarantees funding for the development of recent items. However wait! Isn’t there housing obtainable proper now right here in Regina?

In 2023, it was reported that the Regina Housing Authority below the Saskatchewan Housing Company had about 700 items sitting empty — by no means thoughts the roughly 3,000 provincewide SHC dwellings additionally sitting empty. What? Vacant housing? Simply sitting there?

Are you additionally shaking your head and asking: Why aren’t available properties getting used on this time of acute want? Let’s discover the reply and get to it.

Marena Charron, Regina

Questions on Invoice 137 nonetheless unanswered

Final October, Premier Scott Moe’s authorities handed the mother and father’ invoice of rights to stop kids below age 16 from altering their names and pronouns in class with out parental consent.

This legislation is being challenged within the courts as breaching the Constitution of Rights and Freedoms in that it violates the rights of transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse youth to a secure atmosphere in class.

A Saskatchewan’s Little one Advocate report states that the pronoun coverage violates rights to gender identification and expression and discriminates in opposition to kids unable or unwilling to hunt parental consent to make use of their most popular identify and pronouns.

The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code states that “discrimination due to gender identification or gender expression” is in opposition to Saskatchewan legislation. Others have postulated that the parental proper to be concerned of their kids’s training justifies the Saskatchewan laws.

I don’t intend so as to add rather more to this debate. I might nonetheless, query why Premier Moe is trying to dismiss the problem to his laws. Having invoked the “however clause,” the laws will stay in impact whatever the end result within the courts.

One suspects that, previous to the tabling of the laws, the Ministry of Justice had suggested the federal government that the mother and father’ invoice of rights might violate the Constitution of Rights and Freedoms. In any other case, why would cupboard have proceeded with the “however clause?”

Saskatchewan taxpayers might also ask, why, with a $272-million deficit, Moe’s cupboard would help the usage of a non-public legislation agency to argue its case. Additional, how a lot has the federal government paid to the personal legislation agency to this point and the way rather more does it count on to spend earlier than the matter is settled?

George Peters, Regina

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