Cornwall Alternative School will be graduating a Grade 12 class for the first time in the institution’s history.

For over 50 years, the school has been helping at-risk youth in Regina obtain an education.

For many years, Grades 7-10 were only offered, with Grade 11 classes being added last year. Now the school has the qualifications to grant a Grade 12 education.

“Now we are going to get to see students graduate and succeed. We are going to be a part of that,” said Bryan Rice, the principal of Cornwall Alternative School.

Cornwall Alternative School specializes in working with students facing unique challenges.

Historically, the school has worked as a transitional program, making it a stop for students on their academic journeys.

Many students at Cornwall Alternative School are excited to have the opportunity to stay and finish high school where they are.

“You have kids who are now believing and all the talk has shifted,” said Jaimie Deobald, a Grade 11 teacher at Cornwall Alternative School.

“It’s not if we aren’t going to graduate, it’s when are we going to graduate. When am I going to finish,” she concluded.

Students at the school come from a variety of backgrounds, each with their own needs.

A unique environment has been created where everyone has the ability to achieve.

“It feels more like a family than a school. It’s a good community to be around,” said Gracie Peik, a Grade 11 student at Cornwall Alternative School.

Jack Strong is now in his second year at the Cornwall Alternative School, which he said has greatly impacted his life.

“My family has noticed that I have made a huge difference in behaviour, grades and overall mental health since I came here,” he said.

The Grade 12 diploma the school will grant will be the standard Grade 12 being given across the province.

For the second year in a row, Cornwall Alternative School has been selected as one of the top 100 charities in Canada by Charity Intelligence Canada.

The school is one of three charities in all of Saskatchewan on the list.

Rice said the school plans to continue excelling for many years to come.

“We want to be that high performing school for at-risk youth. We want to exceed expectations,” he said.

Driving dangerously in a stolen vehicle has resulted in a 37-year-old man facing multiple charges.

The Regina Police Service (RPS) Aerial Support Unit (ASU) was notified at approximately 9 p.m. on Tues., Oct. 28 of a stolen vehicle speeding on Highway 11 near Lumsden.

The RCMP did not pursue the vehicle and the ASU began to track it from the sky. The vehicle then entered the City of Regina. In addition to travelling at speeds upwards of 100 km/h, the vehicle ran red lights and at one point, was travelling in the wrong direction on Albert Street North.

The suspect eluded a second traffic stop and with the ASU continuing to track it from the sky, the vehicle headed to the south end of Regina.

RPS patrol officers and officers from the RPS Tactical Support Unit (TST) responded on the ground to a call for service. Two tire inflation devices were used in an attempt to immobilize the vehicle, but it continued to evade authorities.

However, due to damage to the tires, the vehicle was moving at a much slower speed. After a second deployment, tires and other parts began falling off the vehicle as it continued through south-central Regina.

At approximately 10:36 p.m., in the area of College Avenue and Toronto Street, the vehicle came to a stop and the suspect driver exited the vehicle and attempted to run from the police. He was quickly caught by the authorities but the suspect continued to actively avoid arrest.

A police service dog was deployed, biting the suspect who was taken into custody without further incident. He was taken to hospital to be treated for injuries consistent with a dog bite.

The suspect has been charged with operation of a conveyance dangerous to the public, flight from Peace Officer, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, theft under $5,000, resisting arrest, and failure to comply with conditions of a release order.

The suspect made his first appearance on these charges in Regina Court on Wed., Oct. 29.

Toyota Canada is recalling more than 30 of their models, including several under the Lexus brand, as the result of a software glitch with the rearview camera.

According to a recall posted by Transport Canada, the issue is triggered under certain conditions that can lead to the rearview camera image freezing, or not displaying at all. The review images won’t display when the transmission is shifted into reverse,

“If this happens, the rearview image may not display when the transmission is shifted into reverse,” the recall said, which goes against Canadian regulations that require the rearview image to show when the car is in reverse.

The recall only pertains to vehicles that have a panoramic view monitor system.

“A rearview camera image that doesn’t display correctly could reduce a driver’s ability to see behind the vehicle while backing up” the recall read. “This could increase the risk of a crash,”

The issue impacts 99,178 vehicles.

According to the recall, those who own affected models will be notified in writing. It is advised that they take their vehicles to a dealership to update the software.

Some of the recalled vehicles include popular modes like the Toyota Camry 2025 2026; Toyota Highlander 2023 2024 2025; Toyota Prius 2023 2024 2025 and 19 different models of Lexus vehicles from 2022 to 2025.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized for an anti-tariff commercial that led the president to cut off trade talks earlier this month.

“He was very nice. He apologized for what they did with the commercial,” said Trump aboard Air Force One.

When was asked if he was planning to restart trade negotiations with Canada, the president responded: “No, but I have a very good relationship. I like him a lot, but you know, what they did was wrong.”

The ad featured former U.S. president Ronald Reagan saying tariffs “hurt every American” in a 1987 radio address.

Ontario announced its plan to run the ad on Oct. 14.

“We’re going to launch a $75-million ad and we’re going to repeat that message at every Republican district there is,” he said at the time.

Ten days later, Trump announced he’d end trade negotiations with Canada after Ford said the ad would run on U.S. networks throughout the Oct. 25-26 weekend that Games 1 and 2 of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers was played.

Trump subsequently said he would slap an additional 10 per cent tariff on Canada.

“Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now.”

The one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday.

In a 5-4 decision, the top court said although the sentences contribute to the objectives of denunciation and deterrence, they also remove judges’ discretion to impose sentences other than imprisonment when appropriate.

Conservative politicians swiftly denounced the ruling.

In a social media post, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called the judgment “outrageous” and urged the federal government to overturn it using the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre indicated his party, should it form government, would use the notwithstanding clause to overturn the “disgusting” ruling as well as reintroduce mandatory minimum sentences for possession of child sexual abuse material.

Conservative MP Larry Brock, the party’s justice critic, said the decision was a “cruel insult” to victims.

The decision affirmed a ruling of the Quebec Court of Appeal, which said the mandatory minimum sentences violated the Charter guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment. The Court of Appeal decision flowed from the cases of two men who pleaded guilty to child pornography offences.

The Crown and the attorney general of Quebec appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard the case in January.

A majority of the top court said a mandatory minimum sentence does not necessarily violate the Charter protection against cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.

However, when the application of a mandatory minimum sentence is broad and covers a wide range of circumstances, the sentence is constitutionally vulnerable because it leaves no choice but to impose a grossly disproportionate sentence on certain offenders, the court said.

In order to determine whether a mandatory minimum sentence complies with he Charter, a two-stage contextual and comparative analysis is required, Justice Mary Moreau wrote on the behalf of the majority.

The first stage involves determining a fit and proportionate sentence for the offender in question and possibly other reasonably foreseeable offenders, she said.

The second stage requires a comparison between the sentence that was determined at the first stage and the mandatory minimum sentence, including the extent of the disparity between these two sentences.

The use of “reasonably foreseeable scenarios” is indispensable to effective constitutional review, because the goal is to ensure it applies to all citizens, not just the person in a position to challenge the validity of a law, Moreau wrote.

In deciding the appeal, the Supreme Court examined a scenario in which an 18-year-old receives via cellphone, from his friend of the same age, an explicit photo of the friend’s 17-year-old girlfriend.

The recipient keeps the image on his cellphone and looks at the photo briefly, knowing that it constitutes child pornography.

In the age of digital communication, “it is not far-fetched” that an 18-year-old might receive from a friend an image corresponding to the definition of child pornography, Moreau wrote.

Although the actions of the representative offender in this scenario are serious and deserve to be denounced, they fall at the low end of the gravity scale for the crimes of accessing and possession of child pornography, she said.

“The offender’s youth and the fact that he received a photograph without requesting it and has no criminal record are significant mitigating circumstances,” Moreau wrote.

Imposing a sentence of one year’s imprisonment on the 18-year-old representative offender — when a fit punishment would be a conditional discharge with strict probationary terms — would constitute a grossly disproportionate sentence, she said.

The offence of possession of child pornography covers a very wide range of circumstances, Moreau said.

“Indeed, this crime captures both the well-organized offender who, over the years, has accumulated thousands of files, and the offender who, one day, keeps a file that was sent to the offender without them requesting it,” she wrote. “The mandatory minimum sentence must also be imposed regardless of the content of the child pornography.”

The experience of prison is likely to be particularly harmful to a young adult without promoting his awareness and rehabilitation, Moreau said.

Moreau noted the Supreme Court, in a previous ruling, said sentences imposed for sexual offences against children must correspond to Parliament’s legislative initiatives and the contemporary understanding of the profound harm that sexual violence against children causes.

The mandatory minimum sentences at the centre of the current case “go beyond what is necessary to attain their objectives,” Moreau wrote.

Parliament’s other initiatives and the state of the case law “ensure the imposition of severe sentences prioritizing denunciation and deterrence for crimes related to child pornography,” she added.

Moreau said while it can be assumed the mandatory minimum sentences in this case contribute to the prioritization of these objectives, “they also have the effect of removing judges’ discretion to impose sentences other than imprisonment in the appropriate circumstances.”

She suggested Parliament may wish to maintain minimum sentences for certain crimes while respecting the limits imposed by the Charter.

Moreau said while there is no single formula for doing so, Parliament could limit the scope of mandatory minimum sentences to certain conduct, or allow judges to exempt outliers for whom the mandatory minimum would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

Starting in early November, Saskatchewan residents will have access to daily updates on emergency service disruptions across the province.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is launching a new reporting process for emergency service disruptions that will post all emergency service disruptions every day at 4 p.m. on the SHA’s website.

Currently, the SHA posts service disruptions of seven days or more.

“These changes will ensure that accurate and reliable information about service availability will be consistently available to the public while our teams work to restore emergency services impacted by temporary disruptions,” said Derek Miller, chief operating officer of the SHA.

According to the SHA, the new system will include an alphabetical listing of affected facilities, daily updates on the SHA website, notices on individual facility pages and real-time information available through HealthLine 811.

If a disruption occurs on short notice and is not yet reflected online, the SHA says signage will be posted at the affected facility, and the information will be included in the next daily update.

The announcement comes on the same day that the Saskatchewan NDP introduced a bill into the legislature that would require public notification of rural hospital closures within one hour of the closure occurring.

The Provincial Health Authority (ER Closure right-to-know) Amendment Act proposes that the SHA must notify the public through a website or electronic means.

What disrupts emergency services

The SHA says disruptions may occur due to staffing shortages, physician vacancies, unplanned absences, scheduled vacations or facility upgrades.

It says temporary closures are a last resort and every effort is made to maintain emergency services.

A leaked SHA memo provided by the NDP shows that a shortage of occupational therapists at Royal University Hospital (RUH) is disrupting nine hospitals, including the emergency department and general surgery.

The SHA confirmed occupational therapy services at RUH have been adjusted due to vacancies.

“Existing occupational therapy services will focus on patients where intervention will have the largest impact on patient outcomes and the health system,” the SHA said in a statement.

Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said the province recognizes the pressure staffing shortages are placing on health-care workers.

He has said a new occupational therapy program at the University of Saskatchewan, set to begin next fall, will help with recruitment and retention efforts.

Schedule disruption

The health minister says there have been scheduling errors that have led to pay errors and challenges in day-to-day operations, due to the Administrative Information Management System (AIMS).

AIMS is a provincial initiative that integrates numerous administrative systems into a single centralized platform for health-care workers. It’s designed to manage a wide range of functions, including human resources like payroll and scheduling.

On Wednesday, Cockrill announced that health-care workers will stop using the AIMS system and will return to using scheduling systems that were in place before AIMS.

“While significant effort has been put into correcting these problems, we have now determined that the AIMS team and the technology vendor will not be able to resolve the technical issues as quickly or effectively as needed,” Cockrill said.

According to the SHA, the supply chain, finance, payroll and human resources components of the program are not affected.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is scrapping the employee scheduling component of its new computer system but says the rest of the program will remain in use.

“I’m confident that the solution we have in the phase one component of AIMS will meet our needs,” SHA CEO Andrew Will said Thursday.

The Administrative Information Management System, known as AIMS, was designed to replace 80 separate systems with one platform for payroll, supply chain and scheduling across the health system.

The SHA says while it faced problems with the scheduling module, the system remains stable for payroll and supply chain functions, replacing 74 systems in total.

However, some health-care workers say the system has created new challenges.

Cindy Landry, a licensed practical nurse in North Battleford, says basic supplies such as syringes and needles have been difficult to access.

“There are times with the AIMS program I don’t have basic supplies,” Landry said. “I don’t have a catheter induction kit to put a catheter in safely.”

SEIU-West president Lisa Zunti says the program lacks a backorder function, meaning items that are out of stock disappear from the ordering list.

“When they do get that item back in stock, it doesn’t show that I ever ordered it,” Zunti said.

Will acknowledged there is room for improvement with the system.

“We will need to continuously improve our processes as we go forward,” he said.

Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill says shelving the scheduling component will allow the province to focus resources on fixing other issues.

“As we’ve pulled back from this time-validation scheduling piece, that means there are more resources to address other issues in the system more quickly,” Cockrill told reporters Thursday.

The AIMS project was initially expected to cost $86 million. 3sHealth, a partner in the project, says the total cost had reached $272 million as of August.

NDP MLA Keith Jorgenson criticized the project’s cost.

“An enormous sum of money for something that does not work,” Jorgenson said. “The taxpayers of Saskatchewan deserve better. The health-care workers deserve better. And the patients of Saskatchewan deserve better.”

An officer with Moose Jaw’s RCMP detachment is facing charges after an investigation into an on-duty incident back in January.

On Jan. 13, 2025, Moose Jaw RCMP officers travelled to a home in the area as part of an ongoing investigation. According to RCMP, during an interaction with the occupants of the home, it’s alleged that a Moose Jaw RCMP officer unlawfully entered the house.

An altercation then took place between the officer and a man inside the home.

A day later, the man involved in the altercation filed a complaint with Moose Jaw RCMP. He did not report any physical injuries to police.

Moose Jaw RCMP notified the Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response (SIRT) regarding the incident. However, SIRT determined the incident was out of the scope of its mandate.

An investigation by the Saskatchewan RCMP followed. The investigation’s findings were sent to the Crown on Feb. 13.

On Oct. 20, the Crown recommended criminal charges against the officer.

As a result, Cst. Steven Sharpen has been charged with one count of breaking and entering and committing an assault.

He was arrested by RCMP on Oct. 29 and is scheduled to appear in court in Moose Jaw on Dec. 3.

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