Tag Archives: Education
Project Hot Paws makes special pre-Christmas delivery
An initiative by the Prince Albert Kinsmen Club, will help ensure hundreds of the city's youth have warm hands this winter when they play in the snow.As part of the fifth annual Touques & Mitts fo...
Dec 09, 2021
X-Ring effect: Unusual graduation rite linked to COVID-19 outbreak at N.S. university
HALIFAX - An unusual graduation ceremony steeped in tradition is at the centre of a growing COVID-19 outbreak at St. Francis Xavier University in northern Nova Scotia. As of Thursday, 59 infections ha...
Dec 09, 2021
16-year-old arrested after teacher stabbed in Montreal high school classroom
MONTREAL - A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Thursday after allegedly stabbing a teacher in a Montreal high school classroom. Montreal police said the incident occurred at about 10 a.m. at John F. Ken...
Dec 09, 2021
Quebec elementary school teacher reassigned from class over hijab due to Bill 21
MONTREAL - An elementary school teacher in western Quebec has been reassigned from her classroom because her hijab contravenes the province's law forbidding teachers from wearing religious symbols. Pa...
Dec 09, 2021
Construction begins on $10-million renovation at Holy Rosary
Work has begun on Holy Rosary High School's major renovation just in time for the holidays.The $10-million project at Lloydminster's Catholic high school, announced back in September 2020, is a two-st...
Dec 07, 2021
JP II students spread awareness, honour teacher during Violence Prevention Week
Students at John Paull II Collegiate in North Battleford took part in a cause, dear to several of their peers over the past week.From Nov. 28 to Dec. 4 as part of Violence Prevention Week, several awa...
Dec 06, 2021
Quebec provincial police will train officers to deal with people in mental crisis
MONTREAL - Quebec's provincial police will introduce mandatory training next year aimed at changing officers' responses to people in mental distress and reducing the number of interventions that end f...
Dec 04, 2021
Hundreds of Quebec daycares closed by unlimited strike as contract talks stall
MONTREAL - Thousands of public daycare workers in Quebec launched an unlimited strike on Wednesday, after contract talks with the government stalled over pay raises for support staff such as kitchen a...
Dec 01, 2021
Flying Dust hosting Indigenous women's health program study
tic healthFlying Dust First Nation is hosting a 24-week holistic wellness program for women in the community.Makoyoh'sokoi, the Wolf Trail program, is a study on the long-term health of Indigenous wom...
Dec 01, 2021
Quebec to include Indigenous perspectives in education review, add Indigenous content
QUEBEC - The Quebec government will invest almost $20 million to better integrate young Indigenous people into the education system. The money will also go toward teaching young Quebecers about First ...
Nov 30, 2021