education

Ontario’s long-awaited back-to-school plan requires students and staff to wear masks indoors but does not mandate being vaccinated against COVID-19.

Naomi Leung and fellow high school students leading Climate Education Reform BC believe schools must educate students to understand climate change is real and it will change everything.  

Ontario’s education ministry released its updated Grade 9 math curriculum on Wednesday, adding in coding and financial literacy components and doing away with a split that sent a disproportionate number of racialized students away from academic paths.

In the Second World War, young Canadians deferred their studies and delayed careers to enlist. Today, a new generation of young people needs a way to meet the climate emergency, writes columnist Seth Klein.

The premier of Ontario, where schools have been closed since early to mid April, laid out the facts he is considering on whether to reopen them in June or wait until September and asked for our advice.

The Catholic school board in Halton rejected an effort to get its schools to fly the Pride flag this June and to display signs confirming its classrooms are safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students and staff year-round, a move the student who started the push called “an act of cowardice.”

Kingsway College School in Toronto’s west end is selling $4 million of community bonds (and taking donations) to fund the construction and renovation of a 40,000-square foot senior school site over two floors of a lakeshore condominium.

From farm to fork and beyond, food is responsible for between 21 and 37 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Yet despite growing awareness that changing diets can help the climate, many people still don’t know how to eat more sustainably.

Sujane Kandasamy's Hindu culture taught her that people are all just visitors on this earth and have a duty to leave the planet hospitable for future generations.

The double blow of collapsing oil prices and the COVID-19 crisis has pushed Alberta into a historic deficit of $24.2 billion — more than triple what the United Conservative government projected in its February budget.

When photographs of a younger Justin Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface emerged during the 2019 federal election campaign, it emboldened students at one school to replicate them, a student says. When the school did little in response, the racism flourished.

The Ford government said it would spend $500 million this year on building new schools and upgrading existing ones on Thursday, while promising more details on the plans, protocols and investments it will make for September’s back-to-school next week.

Toronto’s Ryerson University released a review of racism experienced by its Black students and faculty and vowed to implement fixes on Friday, giving a former student union executive a "glimmer of hope" the move is more than a performance.

The question of how to deal with education sits at the centre of the province’s reopening dilemma, since anything less than a full return to classes makes it difficult for working parents who have for months been juggling both the working and the parenting.

The federal website advertising volunteer positions for students hoping to earn money for their educations through a $900-million government aid program contains hundreds of positions that do not actually exist.