Tag Archives: Education

Only media report spurred Yukon to tell parents of sexual abuse in school: ombudsman
WHITEHORSE - Yukon's ombudsman said in a new report Thursday the territory's government had a policy and legal duty to notify parents at a school where a child was sexually assaulted, but instead dela...
Sep 07, 2023

$1.5 million turnover coming for Carlton running track
With an anticipated cost of just under $1.5 million, the Harry Jerome running track is on deck to be upgraded next year. The City of Prince Albert and Saskatchewan Rivers School Division share ownersh...
Sep 07, 2023

Private donation helps attract teachers to rural B.C. with $10,000 cash welcome gifts
A rural school district in the British Columbia Interior has filled a shortfall of teachers with help from an anonymous benefactor who donated $200,000 to welcome new educators. At a time when schools...
Sep 07, 2023

Northlands College Cultural Days welcomes students back to class
Northlands College is welcoming learners back to class this week with its annual Cultural Days.The event, located downtown La Ronge at the Lac La Ronge Indian Band urban reserve, is about supporting t...
Sep 06, 2023

‘Unlocking the School Year’: Staff and students in North Battleford head back to the classroom
School is back in session in North Battleford and staff are eager to get the new year off to a glowing start.Students with the Living Sky School Division returned to class on Tuesday after the Labour ...
Sep 06, 2023

New principal for Churchill Community High School
Kristianna Merasty has taken over as the new principal of La Ronge's Churchill Community High School."It's something I have worked towards for a long time," she said."Last year, I took a year off and ...
Sep 06, 2023

Quebec anti-corruption unit arrests former junior college manager on fraud charges
MONTREAL - Quebec's anti-corruption police force says a former executive at a junior college north of Montreal has been arrested for allegedly defrauding the student union. The force, known as UPAC, s...
Sep 06, 2023

After fleeing alone to Newfoundland, Ukrainian boy begins Grade 11 in 'second home'
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - In many ways, Serhii Semenets is like any other 17-year-old starting Grade 11 in Newfoundland this week. He likes playing guitar, he struggles with Shakespeare, and his ideal dinner...
Sep 06, 2023

Deb Haaland, first Indigenous member of U.S. cabinet, meets counterparts in Ottawa
WASHINGTON - Canada and the United States are working together through "a period of healing" from the open wounds of residential schools and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, U.S. Inter...
Sep 06, 2023

‘Excited’: What lies ahead as staff and students in P.A. return to school
Editor's Note: This story has since been corrected to include comments from the Prince Albert Catholic School Division,--Thousands of students are back in the classroom as staff from Prince Albert's p...
Sep 05, 2023