Tag Archives: Education
McGill announces $3,000 award to offset tuition hike for out-of-province students
MONTREAL - McGill University will offer a $3,000 annual award to new undergraduate students from other provinces to offset a tuition hike imposed by the provincial government, the institution announce...
Dec 19, 2023
Far from home, Indigenous students face challenges getting education but there's hope
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION AND THUNDER BAY, ONT. - Charla Moonias lost her friends, her language and the connection to her culture after she left her northern Ontario First Nation at 14 years old to go t...
Dec 19, 2023
'Pushed down our throats': Letters detail school pronoun concerns in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan government received 18 official complaints in the summer before it implemented a rule preventing most children from changing their names or pronouns at school without parental consent...
Dec 18, 2023
'Pushed down our throats': Letters detail school pronoun concerns in Saskatchewan
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government received 18 official complaints in the summer before it implemented a rule preventing most children from changing their names or pronouns at school without parenta...
Dec 18, 2023
Season of Giving campaign underway for Living Sky land-based learning
For nearly a decade, students in the Living Sky School Division know what it's like to get their feet wet in a creek, catch fish, and learn how to properly prepare fillets and tan their skins. They've...
Dec 14, 2023
Liberal MPs ask universities if calling for genocide of Jews violates school codes
OTTAWA - Five Liberal members of Parliament are asking 25 Canadian university presidents to say whether calling for a genocide against Jewish people or the elimination of Israel violates their school ...
Dec 14, 2023
Explaining Quebec's new French requirement for out-of-province university students
MONTREAL - Not only is Quebec hiking annual tuition for out-of-province students at McGill and Concordia universities to $12,000, the government will also require that 80 per cent of them graduate wit...
Dec 14, 2023
'Damaging': Saskatchewan high school rejects author's talk on son coming out as gay
Ruby Remenda Swanson says she never thought her hometown high school would be the only place to bar her from sharing her family's story.Remenda Swanson says she's been to dozens of places in Canada, i...
Dec 14, 2023
McGill calls tuition hike, new French rules 'targeted attack' on English universities
MONTREAL - Quebec says it will raise tuition by 30 per cent for out-of-province Canadians and force universities to ensure most of those students are proficient in French when they graduate, a decisio...
Dec 14, 2023
'Damaging': Saskatchewan high school rejects author's talk on son coming out as gay
REGINA - Ruby Remenda Swanson says she never thought her hometown high school would be the only place to bar her from sharing her family's story. Remenda Swanson says she's been to dozens of places in...
Dec 14, 2023