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Gender Equality Minister says safety of LGBTQ kids is critical amid demands for 'parental rights'
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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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SFU football program plans remain uncertain after report released
An independent special adviser found that Simon Fraser University's football program would have the potential to operate in Canada but not south of the border. Simon Fraser University is pictured in Burnaby, B.C., Tuesday, Apr 16, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Library books have faced challenges for decades, but a recent shift has become more organized as a proxy culture war
Anita Brooks Kirkland, Chair of the Canadian School Libraries, at her home in Waterloo on Friday, September 15 2023. Photo by Chloe Ellingson
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Saint John, N.B., advises residents to shelter in place because of fire at metal yard
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Peel school board faces backlash for removing books published before 2008 from its libraries
Empty shelves at the library at Erindale Secondary School in Mississauga, Ont. are shown in a handout photo. Ontario's minister of education says he has asked an Ontario public school board to immediately stop its new, and seemingly arbitrary practise of removing books that were published before 2008 from school libraries. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Reina Takata **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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On small Nova Scotia francophone campus, student #MeToo campaign ‘removes the curtain’
A sign for the Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia is shown in a Sept.12, 2023 handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Chantal Melanie White **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Parents call for better air quality in schools to protect against viruses, wildfire smoke
Several grassroots groups of parents, health-care workers and teachers have sprung up across Canada to lobby for safer schools, including improved air quality. A classroom is seen during a media tour of an elementary school in Vancouver, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Teacher in Creston, B.C., charged with multiple sex offences against two students
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Western Canada: Vancouver school board looks to close schools in growing neighbourhoods
Annika Williams looks for the birdie during a game of badminton on the field of Graham Bruce Elementary School in the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver, B.C. on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Williams was one of the dozens of children playing on the school grounds during a weekly rally of parents petitioning against the potential loss of school land to future development. According to Melanie Cheng, vice-president of the Graham Bruce Elementary parent advisory council, children use the field daily, which is at risk of being partially sold or leased by the Vancouver School Board. (Kayla Isomura/The Globe and Mail)
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Vancouver parents raise alarm as school board looks to close schools in growing neighbourhoods
Melanie Cheng stands on the field of Graham Bruce Elementary School in the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver, B.C. on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Cheng is the vice-president of the Graham Bruce Elementary parent advisory council and is petitioning against the potential loss of school land to future development. According to Cheng, the Vancouver School Board (VSB) is deciding whether a strip of the far end of the field is surplus to education needs. If sold or leased by VSB, she said the school will be left with a section of the field that includes the hill, which is unusable. (Kayla Isomura/The Globe and Mail)
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Christian group says it influenced Saskatchewan government over pronoun rules
The Saskatchewan Legislative Building at Wascana Centre in Regina is shown on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Onion Lake Cree Nation is suing the Saskatchewan government over autonomy legislation meant to reassert the province’s control over natural resources.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor
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Ottawa school bus routes cancelled for thousands of students due to driver shortage
As the new school year starts up in Ottawa, thousands of parents and students have been scrambling to find rides with hundreds of school bus runs cancelled due to a driver shortage. In this photo taken using a drone, school buses are seen in a lot in Ottawa on Monday, April 18, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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TMU men’s soccer team to play amid investigation into alleged ‘concerning behaviour’
Toronto Metropolitan University says the its men's soccer team will play its home opener this weekend despite an ongoing investigation into what the school describes as "serious and concerning behaviour." Students make their way around the renamed Toronto Metropolitan University on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Gender-identity policies for kids are gaining attention in Canadian politics. Here’s what to know
People protest at the Legislative Building in Regina, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. The protest was a reaction to a recent government policy that says schools in Saskatchewan must seek parent or guardian permission when changing the preferred name and pronouns used by students under the age of 16.
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International small-cap stocks set for a rebound with tech leading the way
In 2016, materials are looking to rebound thanks to the rally in gold and the apparent bottoming in the base metals complex, and health care is looking to lead again.
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Private donation helps attract teachers to rural B.C. with $10,000 cash welcome gifts
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Montreal-area police equip schoolchildren with backpacks that display speed cameras
Children in the Montreal area are becoming living speed cameras as a way to get drivers to slow down in school zones. A police officer stands by as a child with a backpack, equipped with a readout showing drivers' speeds, in a Friday, June 30, 2023, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Service de police de l'agglomeration de Longueuil, *MANDATORY CREDIT*