8 d. ago B.C. teacher suspended an extra day for sharing stories with students of a 'sexual nature'

Robert Luke Acheson made the inappropriate comments during the 2022-23 school year, for which he had already been suspended 15 days

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1 week ago 3,000 Ottawa students suspended for failing to update vaccine records

Ottawa Public Health issues thousands of suspension orders to students whose immunization records were not up to date.

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2 w. ago Judge extends order suspending Trump’s block on Harvard’s incoming foreign students

BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s order to block incoming foreign students from attending Harvard University will remain on hold temporarily following a hearing Monday, when a lawyer for the Ivy League school said Trump was using its students as “pawns.” U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston extended a temporary restraining order on Trump’s […]

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2 w. ago Public service shrinks by nearly 10,000, with tax, immigration hit the hardest

OTTAWA — The federal public service shed almost 10,000 people last year, with the Canada Revenue Agency and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada losing the most employees. The last time the public service contracted was in 2015, when the number of people employed dropped just slightly from 257,138 to 257,034. The number of public servants […]

Economics

3 w. ago Federal union restarting contract talks for more than 120,000 public servants

OTTAWA — Two years ago, more than 120,000 federal public servants went on strike after negotiations broke down. Now, the union representing those workers is going back to the bargaining table with the government with the goal of securing greater job security and remote work options for its members. The Public Service Alliance of Canada […]

Culture

3 w. ago Union says Canada Post won’t meet it ‘halfway’ on arbitration, prolonging deadlock

OTTAWA — The union representing 55,000 postal employees says Canada Post is refusing to meet it “halfway” on arbitration, with talks stalled and the two sides still far apart. In a release, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers says the Crown corporation is unwilling to collaborate on drafting the terms for an arbitrator to weigh […]

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3 w. ago Don’t know if you’ve been vaccinated against measles? Get a shot, doctors urge

Public health doctors say if people don’t know if they’ve been vaccinated against measles, they should get a shot. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, says people should try their best to find their vaccine records and ask their doctors. People born before 1970 are presumed to have been exposed to measles and […]

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