Tag Archives: Education
Conservatives, Liberals clash over youth unemployment as Tories pitch training reform
OTTAWA - Young workers in Canada are facing an increasingly bleak jobs market - and the federal Conservatives and Liberals are at odds over how the government could help. Unemployment rose to 14.7 per...
Oct 15, 2025
Alberta teachers, government resume talks as provincewide strike hits second week
EDMONTON - The union representing Alberta teachers and the provincial government's bargaining committee met Tuesday for the first time since a provincewide strike began a week ago. As of Tuesday after...
Oct 14, 2025
International enrolment at Quebec universities drops over 12 per cent, report says
MONTREAL - A group representing Quebec universities is reporting that international student enrolment has dropped sharply compared to last year. Preliminary data from the Bureau de coopration interuni...
Oct 14, 2025
4 arrests made in connection with mass shooting that left 6 dead in Mississippi, FBI says
Three people have been arrested on murder charges and a fourth person on an attempted murder charge in a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town, ...
Oct 13, 2025
'There's a void': Alberta students keep busy, hope for end to teachers strike
EDMONTON - Many Alberta students are sleeping in these days, struggling with the feeling they should be doing something else instead. A provincewide teachers strike, about to enter its second week, ha...
Oct 13, 2025
University of B.C. launches mushroom-powered toilet, turning waste into fertilizer
VANCOUVER - A "beautiful experience" isn't a term often used for a trip to an outhouse, but researchers at the University of British Columbia say the description fits for their mushroom-powered waterl...
Oct 12, 2025
2 dead after shooting on school campus in Mississippi
LELAND, Miss. (AP) - Police in a small Mississippi town are investigating a shooting during the school's homecoming weekend that left two people dead. Both were killed on the school campus Friday nigh...
Oct 11, 2025
Former Liberal cabinet minister says young people are hesitant to enter politics
OTTAWA - Sergio Marchi says when he asks students in his university course on politics how many of them are interested in a career in public life, he's surprised if two or three of them raise a hand. ...
Oct 11, 2025
'A big mess': Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike
EDMONTON - An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as "incoherent." Maren Aukerman, an education profess...
Oct 10, 2025
Once jailed for addiction, Susan Sebulsky now helps others find hope through Sask.'s newest drug court
In a basement office in downtown North Battleford, Susan Sebulsky starts each day with a simple goal - to help someone else find the hope she once needed.About thirteen years ago, she was behind bars,...
Oct 09, 2025