Regina Leader-Post • July 24, 2024

Court to consider 11 interveners in Sask.'s pronoun bill appeal

A panel comprising three Court of Appeal justices has heard from 11 entities seeking intervener status in the Saskatchewan government’s appeal to quash a legal challenge against its pronoun consent law.

Regina Leader-Post • April 8, 2024

Alberta intends to intervene in Sask. government's appeal of pronoun law challenge

Alberta intends to join the Saskatchewan government’s appeal to stop a constitutionality challenge against its pronoun consent law, lawyers on both sides revealed Monday.

Regina Leader-Post • April 4, 2024

Pronoun policy draft would have still called for court action: UR Pride lawyer

Even if the province had allowed teachers discretion in enforcing a pronoun consent policy in classrooms, a constitutional challenge like the one filed this fall would still have been warranted, says legal counsel for the UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity.

Regina Leader-Post • March 7, 2024

Threats of vote flips sent to Sask. Party after Lumsden sex-ed misstep

More than a dozen emails and letters sent to government officials in the wake of the Planned Parenthood Regina scandal at Lumsden School hint at shifting loyalty from the Saskatchewan Party over the summer.

Regina Leader-Post • February 16, 2024

Court rules UR Pride's case against pronoun law can proceed

A Regina court ruling says the UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Diversity will be allowed to continue its constitutional challenge against the Saskatchewan government’s pronoun consent law.

Regina Leader-Post • January 11, 2024

Saskatchewan government lawyers argue pronoun case a 'Trojan horse'

Lawyers for the Government of Saskatchewan say the UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity has “improper motives” in asking the court to allow litigation against the province’s pronoun consent law to continue.

Regina Leader-Post • January 10, 2024

UR Pride continues effort to challenge Saskatchewan pronoun law

Lawyers representing UR Pride Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity say a Regina Court of King’s bench judge should not entertain attempts to have a challenge to Saskatchewan’s pronoun consent law thrown out.

Regina Leader-Post • January 10, 2024

Sask. education minister received 75 letters in immediate wake of pronoun policy

Saskatchewan’s education minister received 75 letters and emails from constituents — two-thirds of which expressed firm opposition — in the days immediately after announcing the provincial government’s controversial policy regulating pronoun use in schools.

Regina Leader-Post • January 5, 2024

Sask. Pride groups say MLAs not responding well to constituents on pronoun law concerns

Prince Albert Pride says local MLAs are not responding appropriately to constituents who have reached out with concerns over Saskatchewan’s divisive pronoun consent legislation.

Regina Leader-Post • December 27, 2023

Stories of the Year: Sask.’s pronoun policy incites rallies, resignations, refusals

One of the most intense battles in Saskatchewan politics this year was over a precedent-setting pronoun consent law, requiring students under 16 to have parental consent to use a preferred name or pronoun at school.

Regina Leader Post • December 4, 2023

UR Pride lawyers amend legal action on Sask. pronoun policy

UR Pride Centre for Diversity and Sexuality has made changes to its legal action against Saskatchewan to specifically name the new pronoun consent legislation passed last month.

Regina Leader Post • October 26, 2023

Addition of Sask. flag at schools could cost divisions thousands

Saskatchewan schools will soon be expected to fly the provincial flag on their properties, although the details as to when, how and at whose cost remain unclear, according to some divisions.

Regina Leader Post • October 19, 2023

Regina Public pronoun policy not intended to exclude, says board chair

Regina Public Schools’ board chair says that parents are always included in schools, despite recent critique from the education minister that a procedure added more than a year ago “excluded parents."

Regina Leader Post • October 17, 2023

Saskatchewan government hires private lawyers to work on pronoun case

The Saskatchewan government has solicited the services of a private law firm to help with the court case brought against its pronouns policy.

Regina Leader Post • October 17, 2023

Sask. education minister says Regina Public policy 'impetus' for pronoun bill

Education minister Jeremy Cockrill says a specific procedure active in Regina Public School Division was the spark that ignited government’s interest to introduce a province-wide parental inclusion policy.

Regina Leader Post • October 16, 2023

Teachers' union says bargaining talks stalled, voting on sanctions

"What happens next, that's up to the government," said Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Samantha Becotte.

Regina Leader-Post • September 28, 2023

Moe vows to use notwithstanding clause after court injunction halts pronoun policy

A Regina judge has granted an injunction to halt a Saskatchewan policy that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to go by different names and pronouns at school.

Regina Leader-Post • September 27, 2023

Access to information fees quoted at $1,600 for pronoun policy correspondence: ministry

The Ministry of Education is quoting a fee of more than $1,600 to release records related to the volume of public support and development process of the new pronoun consent policy rolled out in August.

Regina Leader Post • September 22, 2023

UR Pride, Sask. government both seeking costs in pronoun policy case

"It's not like a fight between businesses, where someone is seeking to validate their rights under a contract with a payment of money."

Regina Leader-Post • September 20, 2023

Sask. ministry developed pronoun policy in nine days, hears court

Details included in court proceedings Tuesday have revealed that Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Education developed its pronoun consent policy over the span of nine days before it was announced in August.