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Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe says he didn’t know an NDP candidate’s two children and their use of a school change room were the subjects of a complaint when he made an election campaign promise on the issue. Moe said last week his first order of business, if his party is re-elected Oct. 28, would be […]

REGINA – It may not have been an explosive provincial leaders’ debate Wednesday night, but it was a far different story on the campaign trail Thursday. At a Sask Party campaign event in Christine Tell’s campaign office in Regina Wascana Plains, Scott Moe pledged that the first thing his re-elected government would do was issue […]

A legal challenge to Saskatchewan’s new law requiring parental consent if children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school is back in court this week. New Brunswick enacted a similar measure last year, and other provinces are looking at doing the same. Lawyers representing UR Pride, an LGBT group in Regina, […]

The Saskatchewan government received 18 official complaints in the summer before it implemented a rule preventing most children from changing their names or pronouns at school without parental consent.  The emails, recently obtained by The Canadian Press through an access-to-information request, were received in June and July and offer a first look into what may have influenced […]

More than two dozen students at a Regina high school have walked out of class in protest of the Saskatchewan government’s proposed pronoun legislation. It was among several walkouts that had been planned across the province.  Those who participated say the legislation is harmful to students who aren’t ready to come out to their parents at home. […]

Saskatchewan’s child advocate has released a report saying the province’s pronoun policy in schools violates rights to gender identity and expression. “The policy clearly discriminates against transgender children who are unable or unwilling to seek parental consent for the use of their preferred name and pronouns,” said Lisa Broda in a 41-page report released Friday. […]

Premier Scott Moe is ready to use the notwithstanding clause to protect a new rule requiring parental permission for transgender and nonbinary students to use different names or pronouns at school. In the face of a court challenge brought against the new education policy, Moe announced late last week that his provincial government would seek […]

Hundreds of people stood under a hot sun and hazy blue sky to rally at the Saskatchewan Legislature to protest the Government’s recent pronoun policy. People from the gender and sexually diverse community, as well as parents, teachers, and allies, stood together in front of the legislature to show their disapproval of the new policy. […]