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President tells Gaza protesters that University of B.C. must remain neutral
VANCOUVER - The president of the University of British Columbia has told pro-Palestinian protesters that the school must remain neutral on the Gaza conflict. Benoit-Antoine Bacon says in response to d...
May 17, 2024
Prime minister promotes school nutrition program at Winnipeg school
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a stop at a Winnipeg school to promote his government's school nutrition program. He says the plan would provide meals to 400,000 more children across...
May 17, 2024
Latinos found jobs and cheap housing in a Pennsylvania city but political power has proven elusive
HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) - Latinos seeking jobs and affordable housing have transformed Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in recent decades, but a federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to their l...
May 16, 2024
Repeal of a dead law to use public funds for private school tuition won't be on Nebraska's ballot
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A measure to repeal a now-defunct law passed last year that would use public money to fund private school tuition has been pulled from Nebraska's November ballot, the secretary of s...
May 16, 2024
Former Connecticut budget official arrested, pleads not guilty to bribery and extortion charges
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont's budget office allegedly extorted private contractors into paying him thousands of dollars in bribes as he oversaw large bl...
May 16, 2024
''Illegal, destructive, dangerous': UVic president cites complaints about encampment
VICTORIA - The president of the University of Victoria says a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on its campus is drawing an increasing number of complaints about harassment and intimidation, but also...
May 16, 2024
Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later, segregation of another sort lingers
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where schools were at the center of the case that struck down segregated education. "I like broccoli. D...
May 15, 2024
Biden's upcoming graduation speech roils Morehouse College, a center of Black politics and culture
ATLANTA (AP) - When he gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war at a ...
May 15, 2024
Dispute with teachers could hurt government in fall election, professor says
Negotiations between the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation resume this week, but it could be some time before the contract dispute is settled. A political science profess...
May 15, 2024 Daniel Westlake, a political science professor, says the dispute with teachers could be in the minds of voters this fall, which could hurt Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party. (650 CKOM file photo)
Judge refuses McGill's bid for injunction to dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment
MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has refused McGill University's request for an injunction to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment on its downtown Montreal campus. Justice Marc St-Pierre s...
May 15, 2024
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