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Police arrested three teens and are seeking a fourth person following an altercation in which two people were stabbed at an Oakville high school on Wednesday afternoon. Halton police say the incident broke out at Garth Webb Secondary School around 4 p.m. and involved a group of youths in the …
Read More »RCMP search for missing Red Deer family of 5 after school contacts police
A Red Deer mother and her four children are missing and Alberta RCMP are concerned for their well-being. Police said they were contacted by a local school on Monday after a number of students from the same family, who were seen earlier in the day at the school, had gone …
Read More »School bus driver charged with impaired-related offence after morning RIDE check: York police – Toronto
A school bus driver is facing an impaired driving-related charge after a morning RIDE check in Aurora on Wednesday, police say. York Regional Police said officers conducted a RIDE spot check on a school bus driver at Leslie and Wellington streets around 8:45 a.m. for the presence of alcohol. The …
Read More »On-line learning disabled after ‘cyber-incident’ at Durham District School Board
Toronto A cyber attack has disabled online learning and left telephone and email services down, Durham District School Board said Sunday. Literacy tests cancelled for Monday and most student Chromebooks will not work, board says CBC News · Posted: Nov 27, 2022 6:35 PM ET | Last Updated: 12 hours …
Read More »Private school in B.C. Interior replaces French with Nsyilxcən
An independent school in Kelowna, B.C., has swapped out French as its second language of instruction and replaced it with an endangered language of the local Westbank First Nation. The switch happened earlier this month at Studio9 School of the Arts, a K-to-12 school that has Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. …
Read More »Give Louise Dean Centre its own location, say families of Jack James High School students
Families of Jack James High School students are speaking out against the proposal to relocate Louise Dean Centre — a Calgary program for pregnant teens and young moms — to the school in Forest Lawn. Hejdi Hodson, mother of a Grade 10 student at Jack James High School, says parents …
Read More »School bus driver was right to be fired for talking on phone behind the wheel, B.C. arbitrator rules
A bus driver who was caught briefly talking on her cellphone while driving children home in northern B.C. last fall was right to be fired, according to a labour arbitrator. The woman had worked part-time as a driver in the Chetwynd area for nearly two years and had a good record when she …
Read More »Teen charged with 2nd-degree murder in fatal shooting outside Scarborough high school
A 17-year-old wanted in a fatal shooting outside a Scarborough high school turned himself in and was charged with second-degree murder on Thursday, Toronto police say. The teen, who is from Toronto, cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. He is scheduled to appear at the Toronto East …
Read More »Scores of anti-trans candidates running in Ontario school board elections
In school board elections across Ontario this Monday, dozens of candidates are running on promises to roll back protections for transgender students, part of a concerted effort by conservative lobby groups to undo policies aimed at addressing systemic discrimination. The normally sleepy contests for trustee positions have been highly charged …
Read More »Tegan and Sara revisit their high school years as queer teens in new TV memoir
While writing their 2019 memoir High School, Canadian musicians Tegan and Sara Quin joked that their coming-of-age story — which recounts the twin sisters’ lives as queer teens in 1990s Calgary — would make for a great TV show. Soon after the New York Times bestseller was published, that joke …
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