A stroll around Alberta schoolyards at lunchtime likely won’t yield any laughing students, as a teachers’ strike enters its second day. While staff parking lots certainly aren’t as full as they were just a week before, with classes in session, they’re not completely empty. Inside those halls, some work continues — with a cloud of…

As Bill S-2 moves through the Senate, debate continues over whether the legislation will do enough to address remaining discrimination in registration under the Indian Act.  The bill is aimed at removing remaining sex-based discriminations in the registration process, especially those tied to enfranchisement: the often involuntary loss of status to become “full citizens.” The bill also provides…

Like most young children, Holland Van Gurp loves playgrounds, but the one at her school only allows the Grade 1 student to use a swing. The six-year-old lives with quadriplegic cerebral palsy and has significant mobility issues. The playground at Trout Creek Elementary, however, is neither wheelchair- nor walker-friendly. “The hardest thing is every day…

There are plenty of economic, political and environmental explanations for why certain food items are more expensive these days. But first, coffee. No, actually. This consumer food price story is about coffee. Canadians might have felt jolted by news this week that restaurant chain Tim Hortons is raising its coffee prices for the first time in…

A teachers’ strike is “imminent,” said the union representing Alberta’s educators Sunday, as thousands gathered in Edmonton on the eve of a strike. “Right now, a strike is imminent. We will be on strike tomorrow (Monday). If a deal was to be negotiated, and ideally we would like that, we’d still have to go through…

Residents living near a meat rendering plant in Montreal say they’re losing out on fresh air. The plant and the city are still in mediation leaving residents stuck in the middle of the dispute and without answers. Source link