Tag Archives: Education
Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music to investigate historic sexual abuse allegations
TORONTO - The Royal Conservatory of Music will launch an independent investigation into allegations that one of its most prominent teachers sexually abused students in the 1970s and '80s, the organiza...
May 01, 2026
Lawsuits depict Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shootings and victims in fresh detail
SAN FRANCISCO - Tech firm OpenAI and founder Sam Altman face seven wrongful death lawsuits over their alleged roles in the mass shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., earlier this year. The plaintiffs in t...
Apr 29, 2026
Feds outline $4.3B for Indigenous education, health in spring economic update
OTTAWA - The federal government is promising $4.3 billion for First Nations education, Inuit food security and Indigenous child welfare in its spring economic update. Much of the funding cited in the ...
Apr 28, 2026
Provinces eye youth social media bans as federal government weighs action
TORONTO - Several provincial governments across Canada are looking at tighter restrictions for youth on social media, artificial intelligence chatbots, and cellphone use in schools amid growing concer...
Apr 28, 2026
Four female premiers on whether Christine Fréchette can avoid the 'glass cliff'
MONTREAL - Kathleen Wynne, Ontario's first female premier, remembers meeting a businessman who shook hands with the male staffer standing next to her and addressed him as "premier." It's hard to shake...
Apr 23, 2026
'The day the music dies': Organists pipe up to save historical instrument
EDMONTON - Music from a pipe organ has filled a convocation hall at the University of Alberta for a century, but that may soon come to an end as the institution begins renovations that include removin...
Apr 22, 2026
Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, court rules
DALLAS (AP) - Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more relig...
Apr 21, 2026
Student kills 9 in Turkey's second school shooting in 2 days
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A student opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, the interior minister said, in the country's second...
Apr 15, 2026
Jobs minister urges youth to pursue skilled trades despite generational stigma
OTTAWA - Canada must break the stigma around careers in the skilled trades if the Liberals want to achieve their infrastructure and homebuilding agenda, federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said on Monda...
Apr 13, 2026
Yukon issues formal apology for school's use of restraint, seclusion on students
WHITEHORSE, YUKON, CANADA - The Yukon government has issued a formal apology for a Whitehorse elementary school's repeated and routine use of restraints and confinement against students for more than ...
Apr 09, 2026
