3 h. ago Media Advisory: MADD Canada Teams Up with Provincial Sponsor Alcool NB Liquor to Bring Its School Program to New Brunswick Youth

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MADD Canada is inviting media to attend an event showcasing its 2025-2026 School Program in New Brunswick, in partnership with Provincial Sponsor Alcool NB Liquor (ANBL). The event at George Street Middle School in Fredericton will bring together students in Grades 7 and 8 for a […]

Society

3 h. ago L’Afrique du Sud dénonce une «volonté manifeste» d’Israël d’expulser les Palestiniens de Gaza

Un mystérieux avion de 153 Gazaouis a atterri jeudi à Johannesburg. C’est une «opération orchestrée», affirme Pretoria.

Other

5 h. ago Funeral plans announced for teen schoolmates killed in crash

Funeral arrangements have been made for the teenage victims of a fatal crash east of Hanover.

Events

5 h. ago Items found by volunteers during N.S. missing kids search not relevant: RCMP

A search turned up a child’s T-shirt, blanket and a tricycle. But RCMP say none of the items are relevant to their investigation of the missing children. 

Society

6 h. ago Most of Gaza’s schools are destroyed, children cannot go back to class

More than 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have missed the past two years of school because of the war between Israel and the militant Hamas group

Society

8 h. ago Canadian families getting payout from the government this week

Eligible Canadian families can expect to receive their child tax payments this week.The Canada Child Benefit (CCB), a tax-free monthly payment that aims to help families with the cost of raising children under 18, will be sent out on Thursday, Nov. 20.The child tax payment increased in July, marking the beginning of the new benefit year. The federal government uses a process called indexation to raise the payment to help parents as the cost of living continues to soar.An Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) spokesperson said in January that the indexation means the max CCB amounts and income thresholds are increased yearly to "keep pace with the rising cost of living."This year, Canadian families were given a 2.7 per cent boost in child tax benefit payments, bringing the annual base benefit for children under six from $7,787 to $7,997 ($666 monthly) and from $6,570 to $6,748 ($562 monthly) for children aged six to 17 until June 2026.The Child Disabilit...

Politics

8 h. ago Gunmen abduct 25 girls from a high school in Nigeria, kill one of the staff

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the abductions from the boarding school in Kebbi state.

Events

9 h. ago Media Advisory: MADD Canada’s School Program in Collaboration with SGI and SLGA Delivers Important Sober Driving Messages to Saskatchewan Students

REGINA, Saskatchewan, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MADD Canada will feature its 2025-2026 School Program in Saskatchewan, in collaboration with Provincial Sponsors Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) and Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA). The event at F.W. Johnson Collegiate in Regina will bring together students in Grades 7 through 12 for a special screening […]

Society

20 h. ago Pediatricians protesting Bill 2 say 'everybody suffers' when preventive care is ignored

Dozens of pediatricians and family doctors protested the health-care reform outside the Montreal Children’s Hospital on Sunday, as part of co-ordinated demonstrations across Quebec.

Transport

34 h. ago DEAR ABBY: Teacher experiencing big changes in class and at home

DEAR ABBY: I’m getting married soon and I am very excited. It is a true blessing. I love my fiancee very much, and I’m happy to spend the rest of my life with her. I have one concern, though, and it is about her daughters. They are great girls. Both are teenagers. I have told […]

Other

56 h. ago ‘Start their life over’: Alberta county divided after vote over planned nuclear plant

Amid the sprawling canola fields, white spruce and jack pine trees, fireweed and goldenrods of northern Alberta, Pat McNamara is having a case of nuclear deja vu. Two decades ago, he lived in Port Hope, Ont., northeast of Toronto, in a community dealing with decades of nuclear ground contamination, including at his own daughter’s schoolyard. […]

Culture

60 h. ago How Ontario school boards decide when to cancel school buses

Many Ontario families will wake up this winter wondering if school busses are cancelled. But the decision to cancel them isn't as simple as you think.

Society

69 h. ago Wall Centre hitman should get 20 years for conspiracy, B.C. court hears

The feud that led to the 2012 murder of gangster Sandip Duhre in the Sheraton Wall Centre started off as a conflict between school kids, the dead man's father said in a victim impact statement

Other

2 d. ago Leduc man, 3 Edmonton women charged with sexual offences against children

A man from Leduc and three women from Edmonton have been arrested and are accused of sexual exploitation offences, including making and sharing child pornography.

Events

3 d. ago Opinion: It's past time for Alberta to regulate massage therapy

When 49 women come forward saying they were assaulted at one of Canada’s most popular spas, something is seriously wrong. Since then, more than 100 complainants have joined the proposed class-action sexual assault lawsuit against Le Nordik Spa in Chelsea, Que. This case is a chilling reminder of what can happen when a profession built on […]

Other

3 d. ago Scrapyard workers recount horrific scene after UPS plane crash destroyed their Kentucky business

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Supervisor Adam Bowman was loading metal onto a truck at a scrapyard just south of the Louisville, Kentucky, airport when he heard what he first thought was a transformer explosion and quickly realized was more horrific. “I turned around and I see over the fence just a huge cloud of black […]

Society

3 d. ago Tourist mother, 2 children dead after suspected food poisoning in Istanbul

Four people have been taken into custody in connection with the deaths of the two children, ages three and six, and their mother while the father remains in the hospital.

Events

3 d. ago Student beaten by adult on school property did not know suspect: B.C. RCMP

A student allegedly beat by an adult who wandered onto onto a school yard in Langford, B.C., did not know the suspect, West Shore RCMP say.

Society

3 d. ago Satellos Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results and Announces Appointment of Mark Nawacki to Board of Directors

Appointed Mark Nawacki, seasoned M&A expert, co-founder, president & former CEO of Searchlight Pharma, to Board of Directors Completed IND submission to the U.S. FDA and global regulatory filings to advance a Phase 2 clinical trial of SAT-3247 in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) Dosed first patient in open-label, long-term follow-up study (LT-001) of […]

Culture

3 d. ago Takeaways from AP’s story on the links between eviction and school

ATLANTA (AP) — When families are evicted, it can lead to major disruptions to their children’s schooling. Federal law includes provisions to help homeless and evicted kids stay at their schools, but families don’t always know about them — and schools don’t always share the information. Beyond the instability that comes with losing their home, […]

Society