14 h. ago Michelle Obama’s Girls Opportunity Alliance is rallying $2.5 million for grassroots education

NEW YORK (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama is putting new force behind efforts to ensure girls overcome educational barriers in some of the world’s most economically disadvantaged areas. The Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance pledged Saturday to rally $2.5 million for dozens of grassroots groups who advance adolescent girls’ education by covering school-related […]

Economics

16 h. ago MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Rogers Dial the Dugout Pop Up Today at Union Station: Toronto Blue Jays Fans Can Win Tickets to ALCS Series

TORONTO, Oct. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rogers, proud owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, is giving fans a chance to win 500 free tickets and to take over a section for every Blue Jays home game at Rogers Centre throughout the American League Championship Series (ALCS).   Launching today at Union Station in Toronto, fans […]

Sport

16 h. ago ZWAAGSTRA: Smith government should end teacher strike, but not with more money

Alberta teachers are on strike and nobody knows how long this strike will last. The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) claims public education is underfunded. During a recent news conference, ATA president Jason Schilling said teachers “care too much about it [public education] to stand by and watch it slowly erode and crumble from chronic underfunding.” […]

Politics

16 h. ago Letters, Oct. 11, 2025: ‘Disturbing development on social media’

Horribly wrong Warren Kinsella’s article (‘Young people alarmingly pro-Hamas,’ Calgary Sun, Oct. 9) citing Harvard-Harris reporting that large percentages of Gen Z and Millennials have been brainwashed through social media’s relentless assault on the state of Israel and Jewish people everywhere was a disturbing read. It appears the problem begins at levels of higher education, […]

Sport

30 h. ago Man charged in sexual assault of woman and girl in west Edmonton

Investigators have reason to believe the man attempted to hug or touch several other individuals in the area of 156 Street and Stony Plain Road on Sept. 29

Events

30 h. ago Liberty Street Advisors, Inc. Announces Personnel Changes for The Private Shares Fund

NEW YORK — Liberty Street Advisors, Inc. (“LSA”), investment manager to The Private Shares Fund (“TPSF” or the “Fund “) announced that effective October 10, 2025, Christian Munafo, LSA’s chief investment officer and Fund portfolio manager (“PM”) has resigned to pursue a new opportunity. Timothy Reick, LSA’s co-founder and chief executive officer since 2007, as […]

Other

31 h. ago Shared stages: The value of attending the Stratford Festival with children

Each powerful production provides an opportunity to connect about life's bigger lessons

Culture

31 h. ago Here's how educational assistants and support staff might be impacted by the provincewide teachers' strike

While thousands of Alberta teachers enter Day 4 of a provincewide strike, many support staff and educational assistants continue to work as normal, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The union said so far only two school boards have given layoff notice to its members, but warned more could come if the […]

Other

33 h. ago Madeleine McCann family testifies against woman who claimed she was missing girl

Julia Wandel, from Poland, is accused of stalking Madeleine McCann's family. She denies the charge and insists she is the girl who went missing in 2007.

Economics

34 h. ago Scammers pretending to sell Girl Guide cookies prompt consumer warnings in B.C. and Ontario

Interested buyers can find bona fide sellers though the Girl Guides' cookie finder web page

Economics

39 h. ago Opinion: Setting the record straight on Alberta’s independent school funding

Don Braid’s Oct. 7 column claims the Alberta government is showering private schools with money while public education falls behind. That’s not what’s happening. Let me explain. In Alberta, these schools are called independent schools, and any independent school that receives even a single dollar of public funding must, by legislation, be a not-for-profit organization. […]

Society

39 h. ago ‘A big mess’: Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike

An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as "incoherent."

Other

47 h. ago An entire Toronto loft building just hit the market for $5 million

Everyone knows that living in a hard loft is a coolness status symbol in Toronto.The exposed brick, wooden beams, and visible ductwork give that effortlessly stylish, industrial look that makes even the most basic IKEA sofa feel curated. Honestly, these places look good empty.So what's cooler than living in a hard loft? Correct answer: owning 11 of them.A bright and airy kitchen in one of the units. And while most of Toronto's hard lofts are owned by massive commercial real estate firms, a strange but exciting opportunity has just cropped up.A living room with exposed beams and hardwood floors. The building at 1463 Davenport Rd. is also known as "Iron Factory Lofts" because, back in the day, blacksmiths used to work in this area. Today, it's a multi-unit residential property, and it just hit the market for $5,300,000.Another unit. This offering presents an opportunity to own an entire boutique loft building in one of the city's fastest-e...

Economics

47 h. ago Les mobilisations transnationales des jeunes de la génération Z

Ce mouvement se rallie autour d’une iconographie populaire, le drapeau du manga «One Piece».

Society

47 h. ago Hausse marquée des ruptures de services dans le réseau scolaire

Les données du ministère de l’Éducation ne représentent pourtant que «la pointe de l’iceberg».

Society

52 h. ago Trump suggests throwing ‘laggard’ Spain out of NATO as organization’s bottom spender

Spain previously earned Trump’s ire when it was the only nation in the alliance to reject the U.S. call to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of national GDP

Other

52 h. ago Alberta special needs families say they’re left in lurch during teachers’ strike

For Michelle Godard-Richer, who has two children living with autism, the Alberta teachers' strike has left her at home providing full-time care for her 17-year-old daughter.

Other

54 h. ago Exchange Income Corporation to Host Third Quarter Results Conference Call on November 7, 2025

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Exchange Income Corporation (TSX: EIF) (“EIC” or “the Corporation”), a diversified, acquisition-oriented company focused on opportunities in the Aerospace & Aviation and Manufacturing segments, announced today it will hold a conference call to discuss its 2025 third quarter financial results on Friday, November 7, 2025 at 8:30 am ET. The Corporation is […]

Culture

55 h. ago ELDER: The politics of the shutdown, Obamacare, crime and deportations

One more time: There is no such thing as free lunch. Government has no money. It acquires the money used to pay for things one of three ways — taxing, borrowing or printing.  Democrat senators, with three exceptions, voted against keeping the federal government fully running because they want to add back spending reduced under […]

Politics

56 h. ago Toronto & York Region Labour Council: Hypocrite Calandra Touts “Increased Funding” at New School

TORONTO, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Toronto & York Region Labour Council, Teachers, parents and the Fund Our Schools campaign are calling out Education Minister Paul Calandra for his government’s failed track record on education funding. While Minister Calandra celebrates a new build addition to to a school today, the rest of the school […]

Society