6+ hour, 57+ min ago   (1042+ words) Winnipeg 13° C, Partly cloudy Raised in rural Senegal, she learned to embrace what was traditionally expected of girls across the predominately Muslim West African nation. They should be seen but not heard. They should obey their elders. But her life…...

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (675+ words) Winnipeg 11° C, Clear TORONTO – The slate of municipal election candidates for school trustee in some boards under provincial supervision is set to be thinner than in the past, as would-be contenders face the prospect of running for a job they…...

13+ hour, 8+ min ago   (865+ words) Winnipeg 21° C, Partly cloudy with wind Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life. Some of those pieces of ancient life are now on display in…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (609+ words) Jason Arday, who was 37 when he became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor in 2023, resigned after he came under intense media pressure, with weeks of allegations about plagiarism in his academic work and questions surrounding claims about his athletic and fundraising accomplishments....

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (829+ words) A new coalition representing students who stutter, speak with a lisp and struggle with other speech challenges is decrying the University of Manitoba’s decision to shelve plans to train in-demand clinicians. U of M recently scrapped a proposal to establish…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (385+ words) TORONTO – An external review of two protests that led to the arrests of Toronto Metropolitan University students last year says the incidents were “symptoms of a deteriorating campus climate” after the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The newly released report…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (431+ words) HALIFAX – A group representing Nova Scotia’s university teachers says it’s concerned the government is taking more control over which academic programs get funded. Legislation passed last year links university funding decisions to the government’s social and economic priorities and could…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (153+ words) EDMONTON – Alberta is delaying until later this year the implementation of new rules restricting which flags can be flown in schools. The province says it’s also delaying a new mandate for schools to play the national anthem once a week....

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (642+ words) Winnipeg 23° C, Sunny An Elmwood child-care facility with 1,000 kids on its wait list served as the backdrop for a government news conference touting recent steps taken to meet overwhelming demand for licensed spaces in Manitoba. “Much accomplished, much more to…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (535+ words) Brandon University has absorbed all the public resources created by a defunct online education hub that promoted free textbooks and coordinated remote learning courses. After 35 years of facilitating collaboration between local post-secondary institutions, Campus Manitoba was shut down at the…...