Category Archives: Education
Manitoba plans infrastructure protection law, private liquor and education reform
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is planning to prevent blockades of railways, roads and other infrastructure by making them a separate offence under provincial law. The government also revealed plans Monday to amalgamate collective bargaining by tea...
Feds add $204M for anti-pandemic measures in Indigenous communities and institutions
Ottawa will spend an additional $204 million targeted at child care, education and infrastructure to help Indigenous communities fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday. Trudeau said the government is spending $120 m...
Canadians support professor’s use of offensive language, in context: poll
OTTAWA — A new survey suggests Canadians are broadly supportive of freedom of speech on university campuses, at all costs. The poll comes as debate continues over a case at the University of Ottawa involving a professor who used one of
Ontario Tory legislator apologizes for not wearing mask during photo
A Progressive Conservative legislator is apologizing for not wearing a mask while posing for a group photo over the weekend. Sam Oosterhoff, who is also the parliamentary assistant to the education minister, posted the picture on social media over the ...
Ford says supporter will not get special treatment in school accreditation process
Ontario's premier insisted Thursday that a prominent social conservative wasn't getting special treatment while trying to turn a Christian college into a university, but critics said it was clear Doug Ford was using new legislation to reward one of his...
Unsatisfied with PM’s answer, Blanchet vows to press Trudeau on prof’s use of slur
OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet says he plans to ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later today for his position on a the suspension of a professor who used a derogatory word for Black people in class. On Wednesday, Trudeau
Blanchet vows to press PM on prof’s use of slur, drawing sharp rebukes from Black MPs
OTTAWA — A controversy over a suspended professor who used a notoriously derogatory word for Black people in class has stirred strong emotions on Parliament Hill, over whether, if ever, the term should be used. The heated responses came amid a
More suicide, less education, slower internet: A look at Nunavut’s infrastructure gap
A report commissioned by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the land-claim organization that represents Inuit in the territory, outlines ways in which the region falls behind the rest of Canada. Here are some of the highlights: — Nunavut has the fewest hos...
Adviser suggests Alberta students not learn about residential schools before Grade 4
EDMONTON — Leaked advice on proposed Alberta curriculum changes suggests the legacy of residential schools is too upsetting to be taught to young children, but the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says there's nothing to support that...
Quebec human rights commission urges government action on racism, racial profiling
MONTREAL — Quebec's human rights commission is urging the province to act against systemic racism and says the majority of recommendations it made in a 2011 report on the subject have not been implemented. That report studied cases of profiling and
