Ontario is getting a new medical school focused specifically on training family doctors. The Ford government announced plans to partner with York University in Vaughan, Ont., in Tuesday's provincial budget. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for Mar. 27, 2024.
The Ontario government is poised to crack down on cell phone use in schools with an announcement coming Sunday, a government source confirmed to CBC Toronto.The province will also be tightening its policies around vaping in schools, the source said. Stephen Lecce, the province's education minister, will share more details on the "comprehensive" policy changes Sunday morning, according to the source. Details of Lecce's announcement were first reported by the Toronto Star."It will have teeth," the
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“Divest from death” read the bubble letters written in chalk on the sidewalk on Tuesday outside of The New School in New York City. The slogan articulates one of the demands of the antiwar protests on campuses which call on colleges or universities to divest their endowments from companies profiting from the Israel-Hamas war. Campaigns to pressure universities to divest for political or ethical reasons go back decades, at least to the 1970s when students pressured schools to withdraw from invest
Following the death of a student, L.A. Supt. Carvalho says a vendor that was a part of the safety team is 'no longer contracted with the school system.'
Former anti-apartheid student protest leader Seth Mazibuko is among activists and educators who believe a crisis is hollowing out the country’s education system.
University of Central Florida students join in as pro-Palestinian protests sweep campuses nationwide
College students across the country are protesting Israel’s attacks on Gaza. But what exactly are they demanding from their universities?
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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff had calls with two Jewish leaders at Columbia University as pro-Palestinian protests spread to campuses across the country, a White House official confirmed. Emhoff spoke with the director of Orthodox Union-JLIC at Columbia and Barnard College, Rabbi Elie Buechler, and Columbia Barnard Hillel Director Brian Cohen earlier this week, according to…
Protests have erupted across more than two dozen campuses, including New York, Texas and California.
As university administrators and law enforcement crack down on campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza, they’re invoking a familiar trope: the “outside agitator.”
Protests against the Gaza war grip dozens of campuses across America, with hundreds of arrests.
The move comes amid a wave of Pro-Palestinian protests at colleges across the U.S. Data shows antisemitism and Islamophobia are both on the rise.
Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on a handful of U.S. university campuses on Saturday, as activists vowed to keep up the movement seeking a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas among other demands. The Indiana University police department in Bloomington said in an emailed statement that 23 protesters were arrested there. Indiana State Police along with Indiana University police told demonstrators they could not pitch tents and camp on campus.
One of the core demands of the Pro-Palestinian student groups at Columbia that have been protesting over the past week is for the school to withdraw investment funds from what they describe as companies profiting from Israel’s military action in Gaza.
A teenage boy has been arrested after a pupil allegedly received threats.
When Minouche Shafik was announced as Columbia University’s president last year, she was called the “perfect candidate” by the chair of Columbia’s Board of Trustees.
“Well, House Speaker Mike Johnson crashed Hamas’ spring break at Columbia today.” That quip came from Fox News host Jesse Watters, who was interviewing Johnson on his prime-time show Wednesday. In response to a standoff between student protesters and the university’s president, Johnson had visited Columbia University’s campus in New York, where students had set up encampments in solidarity with Palestinians. He was booed during a brief news conference on the steps of a school library. Sign up fo
Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university late on Friday after days of tensions. The head of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, said an agreement was found Friday with students. Tensions had break out on the campus as pro-Palestinian students sought to occupy an amphitheater earlier this week.
The student who said "Zionists don't deserve to live" has since been barred from the Columbia campus.
