Tag Archives: Education
'Information is missing': Quebec teachers want Indigenous history taught differently
MONTREAL - First Nations leaders and Quebec history teachers say the timing is right to reset the way Indigenous history is taught in primary and secondary schools across the province. The recent disc...
Jun 29, 2021
Several high schools in the northeast to celebrate graduation on Tuesday
Many local high schools will celebrate graduation tomorrow.Melfort, Humboldt, Nipawin, and Tisdale will all celebrate in one way or another.Graduates won't experience the same large-scale ceremonies t...
Jun 28, 2021
Proud day for young JPII Collegiate grads
It was a proud and exciting day for many John Paul II Collegiate graduates in North Battleford Monday. The youth took turns posing for pictures after receiving their diplomas and filed into the facili...
Jun 28, 2021
Nearly 30 per cent of respondents broke COVID-19 restrictions: Canada-wide survey
SASKATOON - Almost 30 per cent of respondents in a newly released Canada-wide survey admitted to breaking COVID-19 rules - and felt justified doing so. The survey by the Canadian Hub for Applied and S...
Jun 28, 2021
International students navigate numerous barriers as they look to begin fall classes
VANCOUVER - A prospective student from Pakistan who will be enrolling in Vancouver's Simon Fraser University says she's "freaking out step-by-step" as she navigates hurdles to get her education, made ...
Jun 27, 2021
PACI celebrates graduates with drive-in ceremony
The Prince Albert Collegiate Institute (PACI) celebrated the class of 2021 in Prince Albert Friday afternoon.Forty-two students walked across the stage to accept their high school diploma in front of ...
Jun 25, 2021
UBC faculty of medicine apologizes for harms to Indigenous Peoples
VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia's faculty of medicine formally apologized Friday for its role in past and present harms to Indigenous Peoples and committed to expand its response to the...
Jun 25, 2021
Elder Liz Settee reflects on experience educating students
At the Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division (SRPSD) board meeting on Monday, which also happened to be National Indigenous Peoples Day, the board reviewed all the division's efforts during the s...
Jun 25, 2021
'Staying alive is an obsession:' Family of survivors reflect on residential schools
The weeds of residential schools are tangled throughout the family tree of Clayton Episkenew and many other Indigenous people in Canada. "I have come a long way but at times feel guilty that I am here...
Jun 25, 2021
Religious group to release all records from Marievel, Kamloops residential schools
The Catholic religious order that operated residential schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia where hundreds of unmarked graves have been found says it will disclose all historical documents in ...
Jun 25, 2021