Tag Archives: Schools

TORONTO — Ontario students and teachers now have access to a set of online resources aimed at combating Islamophobia in schools. The Muslim Association of Canada, a national non-profit organization, launched a website Thursday that features three courses, four workshops and six hours of educational videos to help address …

Marc and Craig Kielburger’s WE Charity routinely misled school-aged children and wealthy philanthropists across North America for years as it solicited millions for schoolhouses in Kenya and other projects in its Adopt-A-Village program, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found. Slick marketing videos, congratulatory social media posts and …

Kolkata: In a bid to curb the further spread of Coronavirus in the states, West Bengal government on Friday announced it has extended the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions in the state till November 30. However, keeping in mind the upcoming festive season such as Diwali, Mamata Banerjee-led state government has also …

School buses are off the road and all schools in New Brunswick are closed Friday as some workers began strike action. They include, among others, school custodians, bus drivers, educational assistants (EAs) and library workers. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents about 22,000 workers who are in a …

There are now 79 schools across the Southern Interior listing at least one COVID-19 exposure, according to the latest data from Interior Health. That’s a drop of 19 schools from just one week earlier when the health authority was listing 98 exposures. 3:26 WHO advises additional COVID-19 vaccine dose …

The majority of respondents in a newly released Canada-wide survey say they are concerned about the spread of COVID-19 in schools and want children and staff to wear masks. The survey by the Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research at the University of Saskatchewan was done by phone …

Ontario will offer rapid COVID-19 tests to some schools and child-care settings to help ensure students can continue with in-person learning as much as possible, the province’s chief medical officer of health said Tuesday. Dr. Kieran Moore announced the new rapid antigen screening program at a morning news conference. Tests …

British Columbia on Friday is expected to announce additional safety measures for schools across the province to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The announcement comes as Vancouver, Surrey and Burnaby are set to expand the mask mandate on Monday to include all students K-12. Currently schools in the province …

Kochi: The decision on school reopening should be decentralized and taken at the local level (districts or taluk/city/village/school) as per the prevailing pandemic situation there rather than at the national or state level, said Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), the largest association of paediatrics. IAP said that they would not …

U.S. companies are scrambling to boost production of coronavirus tests increasingly in short supply as COVID-19 cases soar and schools and employers revive surveillance programs that will require tens of millions of tests, according to industry executives and state health officials. Test manufacturers including Abbott Laboratories, Becton Dickinson and Co, …