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Quebec religious group complies with court order to release names of children
MONTREAL - A fringe religious group in Quebec has complied with a court order to release the names of 135 children the provincial government claimed were being taught in illeg...
Feb 14, 2020
Saskatchewan high schools roll out financial literacy courses
High schools in Saskatchewan have new elective courses to offer students in financial literacy. Assistant Deputy Minister of Education Susan Nedelcov-Anderson told John Gormley what students learn in ...
Feb 13, 2020
Ex-Hasidic man educated in religious school had never heard of science, trial told
MONTREAL - Boisbriand, Que., is only about a half-hour drive north of Montreal. But to members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group who live in the off-island suburb, Montreal may as ...
Feb 13, 2020
Climate change could open new land to farming, but caution needed: study
Climate change could open a whole different area in Canada to farming, says newly published research. But Evan Fraser of the University of Guelph, a co-author of the international study, warns that si...
Feb 12, 2020
Ex-Hasidic woman tells Quebec trial she was removed from secular studies at age 13
MONTREAL - An ex-Hasidic Jewish woman who is seeking a judgment against the Quebec government for allegedly denying her a proper education told a Montreal trial she was&n...
Feb 12, 2020
Quebec knew about illegal Hasidic religious schools for decades, trial hears
MONTREAL - The Quebec government knew for decades that children in a Hasidic Jewish community north of Montreal were not receiving a legal secular education, a witness said Monday&...
Feb 11, 2020
Jane Philpott appointed dean of Queen's University faculty of health sciences
KINGSTON, Ont. - Former federal health minister Jane Philpott has been tapped to lead the faculty of health sciences at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. The university says Philpott, who repr...
Feb 11, 2020
Ex-Hasidic couple take Quebec to court over religious school education
MONTREAL - An ex-Hasidic Jewish couple who were educated in a private religious school graduated without knowing how to speak French and hardly being able to speak English, a lawyer said Monday at the...
Feb 10, 2020
'Reaper of death:' Fearsome new dinosaur species discovered in Alberta
CALGARY - A fearsome lizard with a name meaning "reaper of death" is the first new tyrannosaur species to be identified in Canada in 50 years, say researchers with the University of Calgary ...
Feb 10, 2020
Parents in Montreal start petition to add windows to 'bunker-like' school
MONTREAL - Five days a week, students at a high school in one of Montreal's poorest districts spend all day learning math and science in classrooms without windows. In the win...
Feb 09, 2020
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