Category Archives: Education
Concerns about Ontario back-to-school plan persist as some students head to class
TORONTO — Long-simmering concerns about Ontario's plan to send students back to school bubbled to the surface on Tuesday as children returned to class for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Students began trickling into class...
B.C. school districts will use federal COVID-19 cash to fit needs: minister
VICTORIA — School districts will decide where best to devote more than $242 million in federal funding to reopen British Columbia schools safely during the COVID-19 pandemic, says Education Minister Rob Fleming. Fleming said Thursday school districts h...
Nearly one-third of Toronto elementary students to learn from home: TDSB
TORONTO — The higher-than-expected interest in online learning for the coming school year means Canada's largest school board will be able to keep class sizes relatively low, the organization said Thursday. A spokesman for the Toronto District School B...
University of Victoria law centre to train generation of Indigenous lawyers
VICTORIA — A new generation of Indigenous legal scholars will be trained at the University of Victoria, which announced the expansion of its law school to house Canada's new National Centre for Indigenous Laws. The federal and B.C. governments and...
Nova Scotia premier rejects teachers’ allegations that schools are unsafe
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's premier has accused the province's teachers' union of "creating a bunch of noise and rhetoric" by suggesting public schools are unsafe and in "chaos" because educators haven't been given enough time to p...
Parents in court demanding Quebec offer remote learning option for all who want it
MONTREAL — A lawyer representing a group of Quebec parents was in court Thursday trying to compel the province's Education Department to provide an online learning option for all families who want it. Only children with serious medical c...
Tories ask languages czar to probe choice of WE Charity for student program
OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are asking the official languages commissioner to investigate the government's choice of WE Charity to run a student grant program, saying the move showed contempt for francophones. Conservative MP Richard Martel ...
Winnipeg school bus drivers threaten strike as classes set to begin
WINNIPEG — School bus drivers in Winnipeg's largest school division are planning to strike next week just as classes start in the city. Bea Bruske of the United Food and Commercial Workers says drivers are constantly facing higher demands with fewer
N.S. teachers’ union says schools ‘in chaos,’ asks government to delay reopening
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's teachers are warning that the province's schools aren't ready to reopen as planned next week. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union issued a news release Wednesday claiming schools are "in chaos." The union says members are r...
Tech group makes pitch to Liberals as part of wider push to shape recovery plan
OTTAWA — A group of tech companies is making a pitch to the federal government to help startups grow as part of a COVID-19 recovery plan that Liberals are crafting, while some feminist groups are feeling frozen out. The proposal from the
