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Nearly three years after Saskatchewan’s pronoun law came into effect, LGBTQ+ groups and the province’s Opposition are warning of its consequences. “We see concerns about incidents of discrimination going up,” NDP Leader Carla Beck said at a news conference Thursday. “People (are) scared to talk about issues that would make students feel loved and seen and accepted.” In August 2023, Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government imposed rules that require parental consent for children under 16 to change their names or pronouns at school.

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Scott Moe has found a legal loophole to pass the bill that forces trans kids to have parental consent to change pronouns and/or name

A new poll suggests the premiers of Canada's three Prairie provinces are lagging their counterparts in the rest of the country when it comes to how local residents feel they are managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

The poll from Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found 30 per cent of respondents in Alberta were satisfied with the job Premier Jason Kenney was doing with the pandemic — the lowest level of satisfaction for Canada's 10 provincial leaders.

Kenney has faced criticism in recent weeks for resisting calls to impose lockdowns even as Alberta contended with a surge of new infections, which at one point saw it have more active cases than Ontario.