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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Joseph Duggar, former star of the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting, was arrested and charged …
Read More »Translating, restraining kids, teaching multiple grades at once: Alberta teachers describe complex classrooms
What does a complex classroom look like? Here’s a description submitted to CBC News from an Alberta teacher. It was two years ago. She recalls sitting on the floor of her Grade 1 classroom outside Edmonton, restraining a child in her arms because he was banging his head on the …
Read More »Judge sends Saskatoon bus driver to jail for driving drunk with 52 kids on board
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A Saskatoon judge says a bus driver who mixed alcohol and pain killers while driving a …
Read More »Will ‘Trump Accounts’ make U.S. kids $1 million by age 28? | About That
December 12 News Duration 14:54 American babies born during U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term are set to receive $1,000: a gift of seed money that the government says — if contributed to maximally — will yield a return of more than $1 million by the time those children turn …
Read More »Her son died of asthma. Now kids get lessons on surviving smoky skies, in his name
LISTEN | One boy’s legacy: lessons on how to survive smoky skies: What On Earth28:39One boy’s legacy: lessons on how to survive smoky skies Every day, nine-year-old Roland Latimer checks the air quality in Gold River, B.C., before heading outside. He has asthma and carries puffers to help him breathe. …
Read More »RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers stop recommending MMRV vaccine for kids under 4, delay vote on hepatitis B shot
A panel of experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted to change its recommendations on how children under four years of age should be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV), while a planned vote on the Hepatitis B vaccine for young children will be …
Read More »The CBC Kids Reads 2025 longlist is here
CBC Kids Reads is back! The third edition of ‘Canada Reads for kids’ returns to celebrate five of Canada’s best picture books. The 2025 longlist is: Shark Girl by Kate Beaton The Only Lonely Fairy by Lana Button, illustrated by Peggy Collins So Loud! by Sahar Golshan, illustrated by Shiva Delsooz Mad at …
Read More »Step-grandmother of missing N.S. kids recalls hearing their voices, followed by ‘nothing’
Janie Mackenzie was asleep in her trailer when she awoke to the sound of her dog barking, a telltale sign her two young step-grandchildren were out playing on a swingset in the backyard. She said she heard Lilly and Jack Sullivan’s voices. Her bedroom is only a few steps away. …
Read More »‘Sephora kids’ are using anti-aging creams. A new study says harms aren’t just skin deep
If you’ve recently witnessed a 10-year-old smear their face with an $80 anti-wrinkle cream — either in real life or in any number of “Get Ready With Me” TikTok videos — you’re probably already aware of the “Sephora kids” skin-care trend that has young people clamouring for anti-aging products thanks in part to what …
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender kids
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights. The justices’ 6-3 decision effectively protects from legal challenges the many efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people. …
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