{"id":49197,"date":"2015-05-14T17:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T09:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49197"},"modified":"2015-05-14T17:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T09:43:45","slug":"saskatchewan-ndp-says-law-needed-for-gay-straight-alliances-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/14\/saskatchewan-ndp-says-law-needed-for-gay-straight-alliances-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan NDP says law needed for gay straight alliances for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49499\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_121588291.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49499\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_121588291.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_121588291.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_121588291-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_121588291-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>REGINA &#8212; Saskatchewan&#8217;s Opposition leader says the government needs to pass legislation to give students the right to gay-straight alliances in school.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition tabled a private member&#8217;s bill in April that focused on anti-bullying.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Broten said in question period that the bill would help students to feel safe and respected at school.<\/p>\n<p>Education Minister Don Morgan says school divisions have to provide gay-straight alliances for students when they are requested and legislation isn&#8217;t necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The alliances are peer-support groups for gay students that are meant to make them feel welcome and prevent them from being bullied.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan adds that a resolution was passed unanimously at the latest Saskatchewan Teachers&#8217; Federation convention in support of gay-straight alliances.<\/p>\n<p>Broten says the onus shouldn&#8217;t be on the students to reach out for help and gay-straight alliances should be legislated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REGINA &#8212; Saskatchewan&#8217;s Opposition leader says the government needs to pass legislation to give students the right to gay-straight alliances &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-education","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}