Murray Wood: Is NDP Leader Carla Beck channeling Grant Devine?
No NDP leader would like being compared to the former Conservative premier, but Murray Wood says Carla Beck is calling f...
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Cash-strapped parents seek back-to-school deals
TORONTO - When August rolled around, April Hicke realized the $100 she typically gives her 13-year-old son to update his wardrobe in time for school to start was no longer enough. "Even on the sale ra...
Aug 30, 2024 Interest and mortgage rates remain high and many have seen the cost of household staples like food soar, leaving less cash for binders, books and new school looks. Back to school supplies in a shop in Toronto, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2021. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston)
International student enrolment drops below federal cap: Universities Canada
OTTAWA - Fewer students are coming from abroad to study at Canadian universities this fall, and Universities Canada is warning that the numbers have dropped below the cap the federal government set on...
Aug 30, 2024
Health foundations donate $500k to new sonography training program
They say 'it takes a village,' and six charitable hospital foundations in Saskatchewan are taking teamwork seriously when it comes to improving the state of health care in the province. The six groups...
Aug 29, 2024 Alison Dubreuil, president and CEO of Suncrest College, says the first class of sonography students started their classes this week. Aug. 29, 2024 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan schools ensuring pronoun law followed as classes resume
REGINA - Saskatchewan's two largest school divisions say they've addressed concerns from teachers and are enforcing the province's pronoun law as children head back to classrooms next week. Jason Cole...
Aug 29, 2024
Montreal's Concordia University reports big drop in enrolment following tuition hike
MONTREAL - One of Quebec's three English-language universities is reporting a nearly 30 per cent drop in enrolment of out-of-province students following a controversial tuition hike announced last yea...
Aug 28, 2024
Calls for Canada Post to stop 'hate mail' against gender care in New Brunswick
FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK - Nicki Lyons-MacFarlane said it was a "punch in the gut" to find a postcard in their mailbox Friday from an anti-abortion group claiming "gender ideology" was being taught ...
Aug 27, 2024
Ground broken for 'revolutionary' Sask. Polytech campus in Saskatoon
Ground was officially broken for Saskatchewan Polytechnic's Joseph A. Remai Campus in Saskatoon, with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe saying the facility "will revolutionize the way Saskatchewan can co...
Aug 26, 2024
McGill law professors launch unlimited strike on first week of classes
MONTREAL - A union representing McGill University law professors said its members walked off the job Monday, the first week of classes for the fall semester, over what it described as the school's ant...
Aug 26, 2024
Tensions linger as students prep for return to campus after pro-Palestinian protests
TORONTO - As students prepare to head back to post-secondary campuses for the fall term, tensions sparked by the pro-Palestinian protest encampments that cropped up at several Ontario universities ove...
Aug 23, 2024
Nova Scotia to roll out school lunch program to elementary grades in October
HALIFAX - Elementary students across Nova Scotia will get their first servings of the province's new school lunch program in October, says Education Minister Becky Druhan. The first phase of the pay-w...
Aug 23, 2024
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