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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police say a man is facing an assault charge after a group of students were chased outside a Catholic high school earlier this week. On Tuesday at around the lunch hour, investigators said they were called to St. Mary’s Catholic Academy …
Read More »International students from Bangladesh killed in Toronto crash identified – Toronto
Three international students killed in a highway crash in Toronto last week have been identified by the Consulate General of Bangladesh. Police have said a car travelling at extremely high speeds on Highway 427 flew over a concrete ramp, landed in a ditch and then hit another concrete wall before …
Read More »Ontario expands free tuition program to paramedic and lab tech students, Ford says
Ontario is expanding a grant that sees the province pay for tuition for students who enrol in some health-care programs. The province’s Learn and Stay grant, first announced back in March 2022, will now cover tuition and other costs for paramedic and medical laboratory technologist programs in return for individuals …
Read More »Long road to recovery for students and teachers returning to campus in Lethbridge
When the University of Lethbridge announced the shutdown of campuses in early 2020, professors and students were anxious, left with only days to figure out how to carry on with courses in an online format. This fall, many colleges and universities have decided to have fully in-person courses. The University …
Read More »International students are now able to work full time. What that means for B.C.’s economy
Business leaders say a federal pilot project that allows international students to work full time could benefit B.C.’s economy, even as student advocates worry about its impact on workload. Experts say the move could help employers struggling with labour shortages and provide them with more flexibility and job security. Under a pilot project …
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 »2 Kelowna university students find affordable rent living with and volunteering services to seniors
The first time he visited Kelowna before studying physics at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus (UBCO) this fall, Regina’s Mike Marshall was surprised to find everything was so much more expensive than in his hometown. But Marshall, 25, says he was even more surprised when his friend, who also came from …
Read More »Louise Dean graduates, students come together in effort to save school for teen moms
The walk of shame. Tina Cobey says that’s what Louise Dean students used to call the walk into school each morning. It was the 1980s, and the program for pregnant teens and young moms was at Ernest Manning High School. Every morning, Cobey would walk her newborn son in his …
Read More »How a local organization is working to get more Calgary students biking to school
For many years, bike theft was a problem outside Forest Lawn High School in southeast Calgary. It’s something assistant principal Mark Anderson heard about from students as a hindrance to them biking to school. But now that the school administration has teamed up with Youth en Route, they’ve seen a massive …
Read More »Here’s why Indian students are coming to B.C. — and Canada — by the thousands
Karan Singh says his parents decided to send their son to Canada because they thought he’d get into fights at home. The 20-year-old, who studies criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Surrey, B.C., hails from the tiny village of Bakipur in Haryana state, in northern India. He said his parents …
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