Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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Sask. teachers to resume rotating strikes on Tuesday
Teachers in Saskatchewan are resuming their rotating strikes on Tuesday after withdrawing supervision for extracurriculars on Monday. The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation and the provincial governmen...
Feb 27, 2024
Cape Breton U tripled its international recruitment. Students say they pay the price.
Over the past five years, Navy Nguyen says she has watched thousands of international students arrive at Cape Breton University to find a town that was wholly unprepared for them. From 2019 to 2020, t...
Feb 27, 2024
Utah House kills bill banning LGBTQ+ Pride flags and political views from classrooms
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah teachers will be free to display LGBTQ+ Pride flags and other social, political or religious imagery after the state House blocked a bill on Monday that would have banned te...
Feb 26, 2024
Pride flags would be largely banned in Tennessee classrooms in bill advanced by GOP lawmakers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill that would largely ban displaying pride flags in public school classrooms was passed by the GOP-led Tennessee House on Monday after Republicans cut a heated debate short...
Feb 26, 2024
Sask. teachers to pull noon-hour supervision in some school divisions Thursday
The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation has announced a fourth straight day of sanctions against the provincial government. In a post on its website Monday, the federation revealed that teachers in six ...
Feb 26, 2024 Teachers won't be providing lunch-hour supervision Thursday in a number of school divisions. (980 CJME file photo)
Ontario adds $1.3B in post-secondary funding, freezes tuition for three more years
TORONTO - Ontario is putting an additional $1.3 billion over three years toward post-secondary institutions increasingly struggling with finances in the face of low provincial funding and frozen tuiti...
Feb 26, 2024
Saskatchewan teachers announce rotating strikes for Tuesday
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Teachers Federation has announced another day of rotating strikes as the union presses its case in contract negotiations with the provincial government. The federation says o...
Feb 24, 2024
Alabama Senate OKs bill targeting college diversity efforts
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation aimed at prohibiting universities, schools and public entities from maintaining diversity and inclusion offices or funding initiativ...
Feb 23, 2024
McGill, Concordia universities sue Quebec government over 30-per-cent tuition hike
MONTREAL - McGill University and Concordia University are suing the Quebec government over its decision to hike tuition for out-of-province students by about 30 per cent, claiming the increases violat...
Feb 23, 2024
A list of quotes in reaction to the 2024 British Columbia budget
VICTORIA - Here's what people are saying about the 2024 British Columbia budget: "Some look at the challenges ahead and say government should respond with deep cuts, leaving people to fend for themsel...
Feb 22, 2024
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...