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The 20 most livable cities in Canada for entrepreneurs
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Canada’s Most Livable Cities: A complete list of every city’s rank in each category
Access to amenities. One of the best features weighted in the ranking of Canada's most livable cities.
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The 20 most livable cities in Canada for raising kids
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The 20 most livable cities in Canada for retirement
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The 20 most livable cities in Canada for young professionals
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The 20 most livable cities in Canada for newcomers
british columbia
Survey says 75% of B.C.’s jobs in next decade will need post-secondary education
Selina Robinson, minister of post-secondary education, speaks at a funding announcement in Vancouver, on Thursday, July 20, 2023. The latest labour market survey for British Columbia says 75 per cent of the one million jobs needed over the next decade will require some level of post-secondary education or training. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
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Ontario elementary students will soon get extra reading help as part of tentative teachers’ deal
<div>Teachers in Ontario's public elementary schools are set to start voting today on whether they want to give their union a strike mandate. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) headquarters is seen in Toronto, Monday, March 9, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston</div>
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Ontario’s elementary teachers reach tentative agreement with province
Rafay Mufti, 11, a grade 6 student at Northport Elementary School practices his math at home in Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada on Monday, December 27, 2020. Rafay uses the Kumon math exercises to help supplement his education. Pandemic disruptions to the school system have caused many students to fall behind in their academic studies. Many parents have resorted to spending additional money on in person tutors, remote tutoring programs, and other supplemental education services. Ryan Carter/The Globe and Mail
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Ontario school boards grapple with social media and free speech policies after educators’ posts on Israel-Hamas war
This photo shows the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. The six-hour outage was a headache for many casual users but far more serious for the millions of people worldwide who rely on the social media sites to run their businesses or communicate with relatives, fellow parents, teachers or neighbors. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Ontario classrooms struggling with lack of support, large numbers in destreamed courses
An empty hallway. Classrooms and COVID-19 signage at Ancaster High School, are photographed on Sept1 2020. Officials with the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board held a press conference to talk about safety measures the board is taking to ensure a safe environment for students and staff as the school year resumes next week.
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What are parents’ rights groups actually fighting for in schools? And do students want it?
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B’nai Brith pushing provinces to add Holocaust education to their curriculums
On Jan 23, 2023, grade six students at Rockford Public School, work with course materials during a social studies class on the Holocaust. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. Teacher Cindy Kozierok was teaching the class about the Holocaust and events that preceded it. In Sept 2023, there will be a mandatory learning requirement on Holocaust education in the province's Grade 6 curriculum.
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Federal report shows overwhelming support for national school food program
An elementary school classroom is seen in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, April 13, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Head of York student union won’t retract statement on Hamas attack, says university is trying to silence group
A sign on the York University campus is seen in Toronto, November 18, 2009. REUTERS/Mark Blinch (CANADA)
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Alarm grows as Saskatchewan bars third-party sexual health, sexual abuse prevention educators from classrooms
Delilah Kamuhanda, Education & Outreach Coordinato with Saskatoon Sexual Health, stands for a photograph in the library of the clinic in Saskatoon, SK, October 20, 2023. Saskatchewan has banned all external organizations, including the Saskatoon Sexual Health organization, from presenting sex ed sessions at schools in the province, this on the heels of the provincial government’s controversial pronoun policy. Photo Liam Richards for the Globe and Mail
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The class and cultural divides from French immersion
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Edmonton Public Schools teachers reject mediator’s proposal, authorize strike vote
An empty classroom in a closed public school is seen in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 2, 2023. Public schools have been open for fewer than 50 days this school year because teachers are on strike, protesting dramatic currency devaluations that slashed their salaries to about $20 a month. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A high school in Northern Ontario reveals the long shadow of residential schools
Tanya Talaga
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EVs are getting easier to find – but with price tags out of reach for many Canadians
An electric vehicle is charged in Ottawa on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The federal and Ontario governments are announcing today that they are putting nearly $1 billion combined into an electric vehicle battery component plant in eastern Ontario. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Canadian schools help affected students, parents cope with conflict in Israel and Gaza
A woman walks her daughter to school in Gatineau, Que., Monday May 11, 2020. As thousands of Montreal-area students return to class, the Quebec government is facing renewed criticism from some teachers, parents and school administrators, who say the province's back-to-school directives during the COVID-19 pandemic are still unclear. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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How French immersion inadvertently created class and cultural divides at schools across Canada
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Canadian universities bet on international students, but global shifts present risks
People pass by large letters spelling out UBC at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on Nov. 22, 2015. Four British Columbia universities will receive $4.3 million from a government research and innovation program to help fund projects in the fields of health, technology and natural resources. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Afghanistan’s ban on education for girls isn’t just a step back – it’s a leap into the abyss
Mujtaba Haris
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Quebec public-sector unions continue to see strong support for strike mandates
People take part in a public sector union demonstration in Montreal, Saturday, September 23, 2023.&nbsp;Members of several Quebec public-sector unions are continuing to vote in favour of strike mandates by large margins. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Half of Ontario Grade 6 students met provincial standard in math
A class that might have 20-30 students in previous years, will be capped at 15 students, with desks spaced 2 metres apart from each other. All classroom will have bottles of hand sanitizer available. Classrooms and COVID-19 signage at Ancaster High School, are photographed on Sept1 2020. Officials with the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board held a press conference to talk about safety measures the board is taking to ensure a safe environment for students and staff as the school year resumes next week.
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Ontario high school teachers approve pathway to avoid strikes, lockouts in contract talks
Students and media look on outside Dunbarton High School in Pickering, Ont., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.
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Ontario education workers represented by ETFO reach tentative contract deal
The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario has reached a tentative contract agreement with the government for the education workers it represents. ETFO headquarters is seen in Toronto, on Monday, March 9, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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Province provided emergency funds to Ottawa school boards contingent on consistent messaging
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce speaks to journalists at the Queen's Park Legislature in Toronto, on Friday August 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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How parents are juggling paying for kids’ education while saving for retirement as costs rise
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Newfoundland university threw doors open to Titan submersible operator, emails show
Newfoundland and Labrador's ocean marine polytechnic threw open its "proverbial doors" last year to the company that owned the doomed Titan submersible, which suffered a catastrophic implosion on a descent to the Titanic shipwreck in June, killing all five people on board. Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly
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Peel school board focused on replenishing after library ‘weeding’ process criticized
Empty shelves at the library at Erindale Secondary School in Mississauga, Ont. are shown in a handout photo. A school board west of Toronto says it is focused on replenishing resources in school libraries and is planning on reviewing its so-called "weeding'' process after students raised concerns some classic books had been removed from shelves solely because they were published before 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Reina Takata **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Court hears arguments over injunction for Saskatchewan’s school pronoun policy
A person holds a pride flag during a Pride flag raising ceremony in Saskatoon on Thursday, June 1, 2023. A Saskatchewan judge is to hear today an injunction application that seeks to halt the province's pronoun policy affecting children at school. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu
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The school–work skills gap: How can we better prepare the next generation work force?
Canadian post-secondary institutions are facing evolving demands as employers look for new ways to bridge skill gaps in the labour market.
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Ontario public elementary teachers hold strike votes until Oct. 17
<div>Teachers in Ontario's public elementary schools are set to start voting today on whether they want to give their union a strike mandate. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) headquarters is seen in Toronto, Monday, March 9, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston</div>
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Debate over pronouns pits parental rights against the rights of children, experts say
Politicians and others who support policies that would require parental permission for teachers to use a student's preferred pronouns at school say they are about including parents in the lives of their children. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Owusu-Akyeeah, in her role as a commissioner for the Ottawa People's Commission on the Convoy Occupation, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby