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Alberta Premier Smith says legislation on school pronouns coming after September
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will introduce legislation on pronouns in schools after classes begin in September. Smith said the new policy requiring parents to consent...
Aug 15, 2024
Manitoba government follows other provinces in restricting cellphone use in schools
WINNIPEG - Manitoba is the latest province to restrict the use of cellphones in classrooms beginning this school year. There is to be a ban for students in kindergarten to Grade 8, while those in high...
Aug 15, 2024
Quebec launches group to study how AI can be used ethically in universities
QUBEC - The Quebec government is creating a consultation group to study the pedagogical and ethical issues related to the use of artificial intelligence in universities. In a news release today, the p...
Aug 13, 2024
Manitoba to provide update on cellphones in school following Saskatchewan's ban
WINNIPEG - Manitoba, now the only western Canadian province without an overarching cellphone ban in school classrooms, says an update is coming. "Manitoba's plan on cellphone use in classrooms will be...
Aug 12, 2024
Work underway on new joint-use Harbour Landing school
Construction is underway for Regina's new joint-use school in Harbour Landing. The school is being built at the corner of Gordon Road and Campbell Street and is expected to accommodate up to 500 stude...
Aug 06, 2024 Officials gathered at the new school site on Tuesday. From left to right:
SaskBuilds and Procurement Minister Terry Jenson, Regina Catholic School board chair Shauna Weninger, Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill, MLA Muhammad Fiaz, Mayor Sandra Masters, Regina Public Schools board chair Sarah Cummings Truszkowski. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan latest province to restrict cellphone use in school classrooms
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is following the lead of other provinces in announcing that students won't be allowed to use cellphones in class in the upcoming school year, a move critics call a...
Aug 06, 2024
Sask. K-12 cell phone ban aims to help students 'reach their potential'
The Government of Saskatchewan is taking new steps to keep students focused on their studies, rather than their phones. Starting in the 2024-25 school year, cell phones will not be permitted in K-12 c...
Aug 06, 2024
From school boards to dog adoption, N.S. Tories have pulled back from 2021 promises
HALIFAX - Campaign promises to fund mental health care, reinstate public school boards and give tax breaks for dog adoptions are among the pledges that, nearly three years into his mandate, Nova Scoti...
Aug 05, 2024
N.L. opposition calls for firing of university chair over forwarding of alumna email
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's Progressive Conservatives called Thursday for the removal of the chair of Memorial University's board of regents after he forwarded an alumna's pro-Pales...
Aug 01, 2024
'A moving monster': How did the Jasper fire get so bad, so fast?
The fast-moving Jasper, Alta., wildfire was fuelled by a web of extreme conditions that converged into what experts described as a monstrous fire, serving as a disastrous example of what's become incr...
Jul 31, 2024 Melted chairs are shown outside of the burned Maligne Lodge after wildfires encroached into Jasper, Alta., on Friday, July 26, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
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