Tag Archives: Education

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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&...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

QUEBEC - The association representing Quebec's English-language school boards has been granted federal money to challenge a major Quebec education-reform bill, its vice-president says, days after...