Murray Wood: Is it time to review royalty rates in Saskatchewan?
Murray Wood says he's hearing people wonder how Saskatchewan keeps running deficits with all of the activity in the reso...
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Montreal English school board seeks leave to appeal Bill 21 ruling to Supreme Court
MONTREAL - Quebec's justice minister says he intends to defend the province's secularism law to the very end, after the English Montreal School Board said it would seek permission to appeal a decision...
Apr 11, 2024
Nova Scotia teachers vote in favour of strike mandate as conciliation talks near
HALIFAX - Unionized public school teachers in Nova Scotia have voted in favour of a strike mandate. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union said 98 per cent of its more than 10,000 members voted in support Thu...
Apr 11, 2024
B.C. plans law allowing police to arrest or ticket over school disruptions
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has introduced legislation that it says will put in place 20-metre access zones around schools to protect students from disruptive behaviour, including aggre...
Apr 10, 2024
French universities want exemption from foreign student cap, file language complaint
OTTAWA - The office of Canada's official languages commissioner says it has received a complaint from a group representing francophone post-secondary institutions outside Quebec about Ottawa's cap on ...
Apr 10, 2024
Nebraska lawmakers seek to solidify taxpayer-funded school choice before voters can decide it
Nebraska lawmakers are on track to pass a bill that would circumvent an upcoming ballot initiative in which voters could repeal a new state law that funds private school tuition with taxpayer money. T...
Apr 10, 2024
Alberta seeking intervener status in Sask. court case over pronoun policy
The Government of Alberta is looking to join the Saskatchewan government's court battle over its pronoun policy. In February, a Court of King's Bench justice ruled that a court challenge by UR Pride c...
Apr 09, 2024 Saskatchewan Justice Minister and Attorney General Bronwyn Eyre. (980 CJME file photo)
What to know about Biden's latest attempt at student loan cancellation
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is taking another shot at student loan cancellation, hoping to deliver on a key campaign promise that he has so far failed to fulfill. In a visit to Wisconsin on ...
Apr 08, 2024
Saskatchewan teachers pull volunteer services indefinitely in labour dispute
REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers have withdrawn all volunteer services as they ramp up an ongoing labour dispute with the province. Meanwhile, in the legislature Monday, the governing Saskatchewan Party...
Apr 08, 2024
Nova Scotia town seeking novel approach to dealing with unruly university students
HALIFAX - A small Nova Scotia town that has struggled to tame its sometimes rowdy population of university students is considering advice from an unlikely source. Last week, the town of Wolfville - ho...
Apr 08, 2024
Biden promotes 'life-changing' student loan relief in Wisconsin as he rallies younger voters
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - President Joe Biden said Monday that more than 30 million borrowers would see "life-changing" relief from his new plan to ease their student loan debt burdens, a fresh attempt by ...
Apr 07, 2024
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8:30 - Indigenous Services Canada has informed the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations that it owes more than $28...