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The Carney government’s spring spending update pledges $2.1 billion for key Indigenous programs. That money comes after several essential services were omitted from last fall’s federal budget, prompting Indigenous organizations to voice major concerns about potential spending cuts. News Source link

Michigan’s new Fab Five threw style points out the door and brought home a prize not even the school’s most famous team could capture. The five fabulous transfers who make up coach Dusty May’s starting lineup got down and dirty with the rest of the Wolverines, coming out with the …

Montreal’s LaSalle College says it’s facing an existential threat after it was handed down back-to-back fines totalling almost $30 million from the Quebec government for enrolling too many students in its English-language programs. The private college received a letter from the Ministry of Higher Education at the end of June saying …

Prince Edward Island’s biggest community college is phasing out eight programs for the coming school year because of a drop in revenue from “a sharp decrease in the college’s international student enrolment.”  Holland College says three other programs are being downsized because enrolment numbers have dropped. Those programs were not …

During lunch recess at Arnott Charlton Public School in Brampton, Ont., girls tinker with coding small, colourful LED lights-and-circuits kits or compose music on laptop computers. A laughing trio of fourth graders fine-tunes a small wheeled vehicle with an extendable arm as they “rescue” a duck.  They’re engaged and having …

Apple shareholders rebuffed an attempt Tuesday to pressure the technology trendsetter into joining U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to scrub corporate programs designed to diversify the workforce. The proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research — a self-described conservative think-tank — urged Apple to follow a litany of …

Any Ontario strategy to end intimate partner violence must include more programs for men at risk of becoming perpetrators, an area in which the province is currently sorely lacking, experts told a committee Wednesday. There is a “smattering” of services available, said Katreena Scott, academic director of the Centre for …

Students are off for summer break and that means a pause in school lunch programs, but for families that rely on those meals, it’s a difficult time. The Oromocto Food Bank in New Brunswick is reporting a major increase in demand this summer from schools around the area. Jane Buckley, …

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 17, 2024 10:33 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Premier Doug Ford has asked the federal government to put a pin in approving new sites that supply safe opioids. Ford has written a letter to Prime …

Canadian school food program operators are seeing the highest demand ever as children prepare to go back to school. They say it points to the urgent need for a national school food policy. The Breakfast Club of Canada and The Coalition for Healthy School Food say the growing demand for …