5 h. ago Facing staff shortages and program cuts, will B.C. schools get more money in Tuesday's budget?

Province says it will not make cuts to funding but also won't commit to helping school districts struggling with shortfalls avoid cuts

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4 d. ago Bell: Surprise! Lefties don't like the Danielle Smith tax cut

The Alberta budget is not old-school conservative but it has a tax cut lefties don't like

Economics

4 d. ago Ontario college cuts staff as student cap continues to hit post

As Ontario colleges deal with the financial aftermath of the international student cap, several colleges have announced staff cuts due to significant deficits.

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5 d. ago Southern Alberta Medical Program aims to help ease physician shortage

The program will enrol learners identified as being likely to practise in rural areas upon graduation, says the University of Lethbridge

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5 d. ago Fanshawe College faces program cuts, job losses as revenue sinks: President

Citing provincial underfunding and a massive drop in lucrative international-student enrolment, Fanshawe College faces permanent program suspensions and layoffs, its president warned staff at a town hall on Wednesday morning. “The Fanshawe College of tomorrow will look different,” Peter Devlin said in the meeting, which was streamed live over YouTube and dubbed Fanshawe’s Road to […]

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1 week ago Toronto university slashes 18 programs including English due to financial pressures

Yet another post-secondary institution in Ontario is moving ahead with significant clawbacks in light of funding woes, suspending a spate of its programs and drawing concern from — and signalling the state of — Canada's academic community.York University, which has three campuses across the GTA and is among the three largest schools in the country by enrollment, will no longer be accepting students to 18 of its programs across the sciences, arts, and humanities.While a number of language majors are affected, disciplines such as classics and classical studies, Indigenous studies, religious studies, and gender and women's studies are also on the list, as are environmental biology and biomedical physics, sociology, global history and justice, and even English.The school has said that the cuts reflect swift and unanticipated policy changes in Ottawa, and affect study areas that have had less robust enrollment levels than...

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