Tag Archives: Education
B.C. set to open Western Canada's first new medical school in decades
SURREY - Applications are being accepted for those wanting to become doctors through Simon Fraser University, in what the British Columbia government says is the first new medical school in Western Ca...
Oct 14, 2025
International enrolment at Quebec universities drops over 12 per cent, report says
MONTREAL - A group representing Quebec universities is reporting that international student enrolment has dropped sharply compared to last year. Preliminary data from the Bureau de coopration interuni...
Oct 14, 2025
4 arrests made in connection with mass shooting that left 6 dead in Mississippi, FBI says
Three people have been arrested on murder charges and a fourth person on an attempted murder charge in a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town, ...
Oct 13, 2025
'There's a void': Alberta students keep busy, hope for end to teachers strike
EDMONTON - Many Alberta students are sleeping in these days, struggling with the feeling they should be doing something else instead. A provincewide teachers strike, about to enter its second week, ha...
Oct 13, 2025
University of B.C. launches mushroom-powered toilet, turning waste into fertilizer
VANCOUVER - A "beautiful experience" isn't a term often used for a trip to an outhouse, but researchers at the University of British Columbia say the description fits for their mushroom-powered waterl...
Oct 12, 2025
2 dead after shooting on school campus in Mississippi
LELAND, Miss. (AP) - Police in a small Mississippi town are investigating a shooting during the school's homecoming weekend that left two people dead. Both were killed on the school campus Friday nigh...
Oct 11, 2025
Former Liberal cabinet minister says young people are hesitant to enter politics
OTTAWA - Sergio Marchi says when he asks students in his university course on politics how many of them are interested in a career in public life, he's surprised if two or three of them raise a hand. ...
Oct 11, 2025
'A big mess': Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike
EDMONTON - An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as "incoherent." Maren Aukerman, an education profess...
Oct 10, 2025
Edmonton Elks organize free camp for high school football players sidelined by strike
EDMONTON - High school football players sidelined as a result of the Alberta teachers strike are getting some gridiron help from the CFL's Edmonton Elks. The strike, in its third day Wednesday, means ...
Oct 08, 2025
Edmonton Elks organize free camp for high school football players sidelined by strike
EDMONTON - High school football players sidelined as a result of the Alberta teachers strike are getting some gridiron help from the CFL's Edmonton Elks. The strike, in its third day Wednesday, means ...
Oct 08, 2025
