Category Archives: Education
PMO didn’t direct me to choose WE for volunteer program: Chagger
OTTAWA — The federal minister responsible for a $912-million student volunteering program said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office didn't order her to make the agreement with WE Charity that has become mired in ethical questions for the go...
Charities awaiting word on fate of $912M student-volunteer program
OTTAWA — Non-profit groups that wanted to use the Canada Student Service Grant to hire volunteers say they have not heard a peep from the federal government since WE Charity walked away from running the $912-million program almost two weeks
Sask teachers doubt safe post-COVID return possible without more resources
REGINA — A recent survey by the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation suggests most teachers aren't confident schools can reopen safely in the fall. The federation is concerned schools need better guidelines to keep students and staff safe. President Patri...
Feds should have put $912M into Canada Summer Jobs program: Opposition
OTTAWA — Federal opposition parties are demanding to know why the Liberal government created a $900-million program to help students find volunteer positions rather than putting the much-needed funds into an existing summer jobs program. The call for a...
Students at St. Francis Xavier University protest wording of COVID-19 waiver
HALIFAX — A group of students, alumni and some staff at St. Francis Xavier University are pushing back against a legal waiver that students are required to sign if they want to return to classrooms in the fall amid a global pandemic. The
Northern schools face additional challenges for reopening — and staying closed
Teachers in Ontario's northern school boards are sounding the alarm about back-to-school plans, saying the region's vast geography and sparse population present challenges not considered in southern parts of the province. School boards provin...
Ontario effort to scrap streaming begins with math courses in 2021: Lecce
TORONTO — Ontario's effort to scrap an educational practice that has historically discriminated against students from marginalized communities will get underway next fall, the province's education minister said Thursday. Stephen Lecce offered scant det...
U.S. policy triggers Harvard lawsuit, could expel thousands of Canadian students
TORONTO — Questions over whether thousands of international students could be deported from the U.S. under a new Trump administration policy are causing consternation among school officials and anxiety among Canadians stud...
Combating anti-Black racism will ‘take more than a village,’ Black youth say
TORONTO — Zimman Yousuf and Imaan Hyman hadn't even left high school before they realized the importance of fighting anti-Black racism in schools. The women grew up hundreds of kilometres apart — Yousuf in Toronto and Hyman in Winnipeg — but ...
