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Ontario public school teachers are protected from unreasonable searches: top court
OTTAWA - Ontario public school board teachers have a Charter-protected right against unreasonable search and seizure in the workplace, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The top court's decision c...
Jun 21, 2024
Liberals plan talks to launch school food program before end of next school year
OTTAWA - Families Minister Jenna Sudds says the government hopes to see kids getting meals from the national school food program before the end of the next school year, but it will take time for organ...
Jun 20, 2024
'It's just inescapable': Toronto students, teachers seek relief from hot classrooms
TORONTO - In Beatrice Schneider's seventh grade classroom in Toronto, there are two fans in opposite corners of the room. One of them is broken. When temperatures soar - as they have this week while m...
Jun 20, 2024
Public hearing for VPD sergeant accused of sexual misconduct by officers and students
VICTORIA - A sexual misconduct investigation into a veteran Vancouver police officer who also teaches criminology was spurred by anonymous comments on a social media post, the Office of the Police Com...
Jun 19, 2024
Accused in Legacy Christian Academy cases changes lawyer at '11th hour'
Just days before former Legacy Christian Academy director John Olubobokun was scheduled to begin a three-day trial in Saskatoon provincial court, he dismissed his lawyer Daniel Tangjerd and retained N...
Jun 19, 2024 John Olubobokun outside Saskatoon Provincial Court on June 19, 2024. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Protesters say U of T should cut ties with Hebrew University. Are they right?
TORONTO - Pro-Palestinian protesters have been pushing the University of Toronto to boycott the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - which the Canadian school has long had partnerships with - but U of T s...
Jun 19, 2024
McGill University ending negotiations with pro-Palestinian encampment on its campus
MONTREAL - McGill University says it is ending negotiations with pro-Palestinian activists who are occupying the lower field of its downtown Montreal campus. The university is also planning disciplina...
Jun 18, 2024
Alberta to ban cellphones in K-12 classrooms starting in fall
CALGARY - Alberta is moving to ban cellphones in kindergarten to Grade 12 classrooms starting in the fall. Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides said Monday that cellphones help with learnin...
Jun 17, 2024
Program offering 'revolutionary education' begins at McGill pro-Palestine encampment
MONTREAL - Pro-Palestinian activists who have been encamped on McGill University's downtown campus since April launched what they call their own summer school on Monday, despite controversy over photo...
Jun 17, 2024
No timeline for new teacher contract as dispute heads to arbitration: Cockrill
There is still some uncertainty about whether a new teacher contract will be in place ahead of the next school year. Following the decision by the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation to proceed with bin...
Jun 17, 2024 Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill said he's glad there will be more stability in schools as the two parties work towards a solution to the contract dispute through binding arbitration. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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