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Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province has reached a tentative contract deal with the province’s Catholic teachers. He says it means no province-wide job action or strikes for the next three years. Officials say the structure of the tentative deal for the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association is …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some Saskatchewan teachers are taking part in a rotating strike on Monday with a strike line taking place at the Saskatchewan Legislature. This job action coincides with the first day of the spring legislative session and will affect several school divisions in …

Ontario’s recent post-secondary funding announcement is only a “stop gap” that will still leave universities struggling, and which may end up hurting the student experience, a global credit rating agency said Wednesday. DBRS Morningstar wrote in a commentary that the three-year, $1.3-billion package announced this week by Colleges and Universities …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Louis Riel School Division in Manitoba is proposing full-day kindergarten across all of its schools in the fall as it grapples with an increase of almost 1,000 new students. Division board member Chris Sigurdson says eight schools are currently participating in …

By Caley Gibson Global News Posted February 29, 2024 8:00 am Updated February 29, 2024 8:07 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta’s finance minister is set to table the 2024 budget on Thursday afternoon. Premier Danielle Smith has warned that the province will …

Thousands of staff at York University are prepared to go on strike Monday morning. Agreement between the university and the union that represents the school’s academic workers has not been reached. The union, which represents roughly 3,000 contract instructors, teaching assistants and graduate assistants at York University confirmed Friday it …

Ontario’s colleges and universities minister is expected to announce funding today for post-secondary institutions to respond to their precarious finances. A government-commissioned report released in November said that low levels of provincial funding to colleges and universities combined with a tuition cut and freeze in 2019 are posing a “significant …

Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet are doubling down on scathing criticism of the Trudeau government’s international student cap as they prepare to unveil new money for post-secondary education in Ontario. Ford has teased a “really good” announcement to come from Minister of Colleges and Universities Jill Dunlop. The minister …

Students from nearly two dozen schools across a Manitoba school division battled it out this week for a spot at the Canada Wide Science Fair in May. The annual Frontier School Division’s Science Fair saw students from grades 4 to 12 put up displays of their projects, which ranged from …

Premier François Legault said Sunday the ramp-up in spending on education pledged by his government will go a long way to supporting Quebec’s teachers and students — and prompt a bigger budget deficit. At a news conference, Legault said agreements recently hammered out with unions will see the province “invest …