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An evaluation of a federal benefit to help parents take time off work to care for critically ill children says fewer people have used it than expected because they didn't know about it or didn't understand how it worked.

Nunavut is failing to prepare its high school and mature students for further education or for the working world, says a highly critical report from the federal auditor general.

Just days after saying Canada's ties with China have hit "rock bottom", China's ambassador is praising Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil as "a great friend."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told hundreds of attendees at a conference in Toronto on Monday, May 20, 2019, that Canada's thriving technology sector is a result of the country's openness to immigrants and he hopes Canadians will continue to view immigration positively.

Verukah Poirier, a young Indigenous woman, is one of 800 former foster children whose post-secondary tuition fees were waived as part of a provincial program launched in 2017. Education at residential schools destroyed families but now can lift families up, says one advocate.

More than 800 young adults who grew up in care are studying for free in British Columbia. It’s a significant feat. Just a third of children from foster homes and other care graduate from high school by the time they turn 19, compared with 84.6 per cent of the general population.

"Twenty-first century education is supposed to be about problem solving and creative solutions and those things don't get developed when you're online," teacher Beyhan Farhadi told National Observer. "If the government heads in this direction, students will suffer."

Premier Doug Ford's Ontario government offered on Tuesday to double the $320 million in funds it had initially allocated for an allowance-based autism support system and consult with the public on additional needs-based services, backtracking on parts of a policy overhaul that had outraged parents and caregivers when it was first announced in February.

Manitoba's children's advocate says an Indigenous teenager was left homeless and at risk for sexual exploitation when she asked social agencies for help in the weeks before she was found dead in a river but was told there were no beds available.

Alberta's education minister apologized Thursday after learning an online social studies course asked students about the positive effects of residential schools.

"I had lived in places where we were the poor, mixed and broken family, and in places where we were the rich ones who leave their shoes outside to be stolen. All these moves taught me a secret not everybody learns."

Transport rolled onto the scene of the Quebec election campaign on Saturday, September 1, 2018, as two of the main party leaders promised to help travellers get around if elected.

Alberta’s ruling New Democrats are reassuring the oil and gas industry that a revamped science curriculum won’t portray them negatively, even as they move to ensure students learn that climate change is real.

Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto have ranked among the top ten most liveable cities in the world in the latest ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Half of all women in solitary confinement in Canadian prisons are Indigenous, though Indigenous women make up merely four per cent of the general female population.