Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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B.C. budget highlights, from soaring deficit to family benefit boost and free IVF
VICTORIA - The 2024 British Columbia budget includes new spending measures designed to ease high costs of living, while significantly boosting the province's deficit. Here are some highlights: THE DEF...
Feb 22, 2024
Georgia board upholds firing of teacher for reading a book to students about gender identity
ATLANTA (AP) - The firing of a Georgia teacher who read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class was upheld Thursday by the Georgia Board of Education. Katie Rinderle had been a teacher for ...
Feb 22, 2024
STF calls school violence a symptom of underfunded education system
The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation is shining a spotlight on in-class violence as its contract negotiations with the province remain at a standstill. One teacher, Shelby, said she was attacked by a...
Feb 21, 2024 The injuries Shelby suffered when she was attacked by a student. (Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation/Submitted)
Biden says too many Americans are saddled with school debt as he cancels federal loans for 153,000
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday that while a college degree was still a ticket to a better life, that ticket is often too expensive, as he announced he was canceling fede...
Feb 21, 2024
STF trades shots with minister, plans news conference on in-class violence
As the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation refuses to resume bargaining and plans more sanctions, the union is also trading shots with Saskatchewan's education minister on social media. The union has sa...
Feb 21, 2024
Georgia Senate considers controls on school libraries and criminal charges for librarians
ATLANTA (AP) - A proposal that would require school libraries to notify parents of every book their child checks out was advanced by Georgia senators Tuesday, while a proposal to subject school librar...
Feb 20, 2024
Utah school board member censured over transgender comments is seeking reelection
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah State Board of Education member who is facing pressure from top state leaders to resign after lawmakers say she bullied a student on social media has instead announced tha...
Feb 20, 2024
Lisa Beare fills B.C. portfolio vacated by Selina Robinson, who quit over Gaza remark
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby has announced a mini cabinet reshuffle and named a new post-secondary education minister to replace Selina Robinson, who recently resigned over comments a...
Feb 20, 2024
New Brunswick child and youth advocate suggests schools be cellphone-free zones
FREDERICTON - Parent and teacher groups in New Brunswick welcomed the child and youth advocate's recent suggestion that the province ban cellphones from schools because of their effect on students' me...
Feb 20, 2024
Ontario legislature resumes, omnibus bill to contain urban boundary changes
TORONTO - Ontario's Progressive Conservative government introduced an omnibus bill Tuesday titled the Get It Done Act, borrowing from their 2022 election slogan, but opposition parties said the legisl...
Feb 20, 2024
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 2
On today's show, Evan asks whether you really relax when you have time off, the economic impact of the industrial carbon...