Murray Wood: Going to seed, in a good way
Murray Wood says seed sales are taking off this spring. Food prices are likely convincing some to grow their own vegetab...
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Montreal's LaSalle College classes resume, impasse endures with Quebec over $30M fine
MONTREAL - A Montreal college has resumed classes even as it faces a $30-million fine by the Quebec government for exceeding enrolment in English-language programs. LaSalle College had postponed the r...
Aug 26, 2025
Quebec committee says government should extend religious symbols ban to daycares
MONTREAL - The Quebec government should phase out public funding of religious private schools and extend the religious symbols ban to daycare workers, says a committee tasked with advising the provinc...
Aug 26, 2025
Quebec college facing $30M fine over English student enrolment postpones first day
MONTREAL - A Quebec college facing a $30-million fine for enrolling too many students in English-language programs, contravening the province's language law, is postponing the first day of classes sch...
Aug 23, 2025
When heat and drought stress trees, the consequences can be tragic
Sometimes it happens without any more warning than the sound of cracking. A tree physiologist said that several years of repeated drought in British Columbia mixed with heat stress increased the likel...
Aug 23, 2025
Justice Dept. declines to defend grants for Hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for colleges with large numbers of Hispanic students that is being challenged in court, declaring ...
Aug 22, 2025
Canadian universities are adopting AI tools, but concerns about the technology remain
Canadian universities are embracing generative artificial intelligence in their teaching plans as more students and instructors opt to use the rapidly evolving technology. Several large institutions, ...
Aug 19, 2025
First Nation in B.C. says 41 more graves found by penetrating radar at school site
SECHELT - An 18-month investigation at a former residential school site in British Columbia's Sunshine Coast has found more evidence of children who disappeared there, the area's First Nation says. Th...
Aug 15, 2025
Concordia University students launch rocket from northern Quebec
MONTREAL - Students at Concordia University in Montreal have pulled off what they're calling the first attempted space launch in Canada this century. Early Friday morning, they launched a rocket from ...
Aug 15, 2025
Effort underway to get Afghan women at risk of deportation to University of Regina
Parissa Ahmadi says the least worst thing that could happen if she doesn't make it to Saskatchewan this summer, and is deported to Afghanistan, is that she's jailed and tortured. The worst thing - she...
Aug 15, 2025
'Great relief': After uncertainty, Canadian Harvard students expect to return this fall
TORONTO - Thomas Mete says he is feeling "great relief" now that he knows he'll be returning to Harvard University to finish the last year of his degree, after a tumultuous summer of limbo. "I can't w...
Aug 15, 2025
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Sarah Mills: We are feeling the pinch of rising prices, even beyond the gas pumps
Costs have already gone up with airlines. Parcel and delivery services could also increase, and even ride sharing may ja...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
On Tuesday's show, Evan talks about the Prime Minister's transition from minority to majority government, explores a pro...