Tag Archives: Education
An education student's perspective on teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic
Teaching in a pandemic is a new venture for all educators, but what about those who are going into a classroom to teach for the first time?That's the case for Shawna Schellenberg who is in her fourth ...
Sep 02, 2020
Tech group makes pitch to Liberals as part of wider push to shape recovery plan
OTTAWA - A group of tech companies is making a pitch to the federal government to help startups grow as part of a COVID-19 recovery plan that Liberals are crafting, while some feminist groups are...
Sep 02, 2020
STF asks educators to stay away from extracurricular activities as opening date looms
Don't volunteer for extracurricular activities.That's what the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) is telling its members as staff and students prepare for the first day of school on Sept. 8.In a ...
Sep 02, 2020
From masks to cohorting, a guide to back-to-school rules across the country
Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Here is a look at what the various provinces have said ...
Sep 02, 2020
Quebec daycare workers begin rotating strike as talks set to resume later this week
MONTREAL - A union representing 10,000 Quebec home daycare workers began the first of a series of rotating strikes Tuesday, leaving thousands of families to find alternate child-care ar...
Sep 01, 2020
NDP says documents prove youth minister played key role in WE decision
OTTAWA - Federal New Democrats are citing recently released documents as proof that Youth Minister Bardish Chagger was the key driver in the Liberal government's decision to have WE Charity administer...
Sep 01, 2020
COVID-19 in schools inevitable, reducing class sizes unrealistic: Kenney
COVID-19 cases disrupted the reopening of two Alberta schools on Tuesday, but Premier Jason Kenney said his government has accepted that such infections are inevitable and don't warrant clos...
Sep 01, 2020
Sites to be commemorated: Residential schools recognized as 'historic event'
They blighted Indigenous lives for more than a century. Now their creation is being formally recognized as one of the events that helped shape today's Canada. The federal government has...
Sep 01, 2020
New Brunswick Liberals promise to eliminate interest on provincial student loans
FREDERICTON - Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers promised Tuesday that if elected, his government would stop collecting its share of interest on New Brunswick student loans for residents who choose to ...
Sep 01, 2020
Ad criticized by teachers meant to allay anxiety: B.C.'s public health officer
VICTORIA - The provincial health officer says a back-to-school ad being criticized by the B.C. Teachers' Federation as unrealistic wasn't meant to be a commercial about what classrooms would look...
Aug 31, 2020