Tag Archives: Education

TORONTO - Canadian colleges and universities are developing contingency plans to deliver classes in the fall, as students prepare for an uncertain semester due to COVID-19. The president of ...

The novel coronavirus was engineered in a lab using HIV. Stem cells are a potent weapon against the new pandemic. People with blood type A are more susceptible to COVID-19. None of these "discoveries"...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has suggested that reopening schools and daycares could be a way to both kick-start its economy and slow the transmission of COVID-19 in the province. Quebec...

After spending ten years delivering her lessons to a classroom full of shiny faces, teaching online through the COVID-19 pandemic is a big change for Jennifer Briere. She has a grade 4/5 class at Argy...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A "virtual choir" has brought students across Newfoundland and Labrador, along with professional musicians and politicians, together in song during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Newfou...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - School staff in Iqaluit have banded together to ensure that students in the capital of Nunavut don't go hungry because of closed classrooms. In a territory with ...

A measuring tape marks out three metres and bright cones provide a visual barrier. Preschool teacher Uli Hecker has found a way to follow public health orders for COVID-19 while safely connecting face...

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking at ways to speed-up the introduction of skills-training help for out-of-work Canadians, say groups involved in helping implement the program. The training he...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has temporarily modified its access to information and privacy act in response to COVID-19, lifting a requirement that personal data must be stored in ...

March 16 was Anika Burmeister’s last day on the job. As a substitute teacher who graduated from university not long ago, she took the jobs that came her way. Unfortunately, her school board had ...