Category Archives: Education
Highlights of the British Columbia NDP’s election platform
VANCOUVER — Highlights of the British Columbia NDP's platform in the Oct. 24 election campaign: — Families with an annual household income under $125,000 would get a one-time $1,000 COVID-19 recovery benefit, with the benefit going to others on a slidi...
Liberals, NDP block Conservative effort to have prorogation study include WE affair
OTTAWA — The Liberals and the NDP have blocked an effort by the Conservatives to get the WE Charity affair probed ahead of a study into why the Liberals prorogued Parliament. The government must provide a report within 20 sitting days
Teachers learn that online classes for foreign students come with geopolitical snags
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — In the midst of the summer scramble to get courses online at Memorial University in St. John’s, Sonja Knutson realized there were political implications to remote learning she hadn’t considered. A Memorial student living in Ira...
Saskatchewan Party promises increase to post-secondary scholarship
MOOSE JAW — Leader Scott Moe says the Saskatchewan Party will increase the Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship to $750 a year for eligible students if re-elected on Oct. 26. Moe says that would help students from low- to moderate- income fam...
Ontario announces stricter guidelines to deal with second wave of COVID-19
TORONTO — Ontario announced tighter COVID-19 restrictions Friday amid mounting criticism that the government was ill-prepared for a second wave of the pandemic, which has seen crippling lines at assessment centres, a ballooning testing b...
Ontario reports 52 new cases of COVID-19 in schools; at least 32 in students
TORONTO — Ontario is reporting another 52 cases of COVID-19 in schools across the province. The government says at least 32 of those infected are students, while eight are staff and 12 have not been identified. Wednesday's development brings the total ...
Dalhousie faculty association investigating president’s letter on Mi’kmaq fishery
HALIFAX — Dalhousie's faculty association says the university's president may have violated academic freedom after he emailed teachers, staff and students to warn them against making negative comments about an Indigenous-run fishery. The president's le...
Conservatives want an anti-corruption committee to probe WE Charity controversy
OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives want MPs to create an anti-corruption committee to investigate the WE Charity issue.Tory ethics critic Michael Barrett says the new forum would press for answers to lingering questions about the controversy.In the mea...
Here’s what do as Canada Student Loan payments resume, starting today
Before graduating with a double master’s in information and museum studies from the University of Toronto in June, Elizabeth Cytko was gearing up to apply to jobs at libraries and institutions across the country. The plan was to launch her career
Parents shouldn’t needlessly worry about COVID-19 exposure at school: Bonnie Henry
VICTORIA — British Columbia's provincial health officer says rumours and misinformation should be replaced with facts when it comes to potential exposure to COVID-19 among students. Dr. Bonnie Henry is encouraging parents to recognize that so-called ex...
