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Concordia defers sabbaticals, offers retirement program due to foreign student drop
MONTREAL - Montreal's Concordia University says it's not renewing some teaching contracts and deferring previously approved sabbaticals because of major budget shortfalls due in part to federal and pr...
Nov 07, 2025
Teachers challenge Alberta law using notwithstanding clause to end strike
EDMONTON - Alberta teachers say they're taking Premier Danielle Smith's government to court for overriding their Charter rights to end their strike, while some members of her caucus say public outrage...
Nov 06, 2025
B.C. couple who ran bogus anti-tax school lose CRA assessment appeal
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia couple who ran educational seminars promoting the bogus notion that people don't have to pay taxes have lost their appeal against tax bills on $1.4 million in revenue fr...
Nov 06, 2025
Parliamentary committee revises order to share federal grant applicant data
A parliamentary committee has amended a controversial order that seeks 25 years' worth of data on researchers who applied for health and science grants. The Standing Committee on Health and Research h...
Nov 06, 2025
Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on Saskatchewan's school pronoun case
REGINA - The Supreme Court of Canada granted leave Thursday to hear appeals in a challenge of Saskatchewan's school pronoun law and the notwithstanding clause that underpins it. No date has been set f...
Nov 06, 2025
Ontario avoids public hearings on bills; one would boost education minister's powers
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is limiting debate and skipping public hearings on an education bill that would make it easier for the minister to take control of school boards and a ...
Nov 05, 2025
Some Ukrainian university students feel 'betrayed' as tuition could increase up to five-fold
Post-secondary students who fled the war in Ukraine are hoping a program that allows them to pay domestic tuition rates rather than international tuition rates will be renewed by the provincial and fe...
Nov 05, 2025 Ivan Teteria said he will not be able to afford his studies if the Ukrainian tuition support program is not extended. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
Manitoba NDP government supports Liberal bill on universal screening for students
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's NDP government has agreed to support a Liberal bill on universal screening for learning disabilities in early grades. The government announced in the spring that it intended to h...
Nov 04, 2025
Alberta dispensing promised money for parents affected by teacher strike
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is starting to roll out compensation for the families of children who were kept out of classrooms during a three-week teachers strike. Premier Danielle Smith's govern...
Oct 31, 2025
Education minister orders northern Ontario school board to resolve dysfunction
TORONTO - Ontario's education minister has ordered a North Bay area school board to take immediate steps to resolve what a report described as overwhelming dysfunction or he will take "further action....
Oct 31, 2025
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Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
8:30 - With the by-elections now decided, Mark Carney's Liberals have secured a majority in the House of Commons, comple...