The board of Winnipeg’s Louis Riel School Division will hold its first meeting of the school year online in an attempt to de-escalate tension after a protest at its last meeting over the suspension of a trustee accused of making transphobic and homophobic comments. The move
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Sask. government rejected offer of help from online school with 90% graduation rate
Sitting in front of her laptop inside her Regina home this week, Lanea Lafontaine reviews her math homework with an online teacher. Then she helps her younger brother with his science lesson before they head out to volunteer at a care home and do some Christmas shopping with
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‘A lot of frustration:’ Popular online learning platform to be phased out in Peel public schools
A popular online platform that many public school teachers use to communicate with parents and post learning materials for absent students could soon be scrapped in Peel Region. The Peel District School Board sent a memo to staff on April 13 advising them that Google
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Q&A: online advertising in India
Advertising Regulation What rules govern online advertising? While there are no specific rules or regulations governing advertising on the internet, in terms of the Information Technology Act 2000 (the IT Act), it should be ensured that any advertisement published or transmitted through any website on
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Is a new online university a cure for what ails the humanities?
“What’s that going to get you?” my mechanical-engineer father asked when I enrolled as an undergraduate in English and history at McGill University. The answer, we both knew, was “nothing,” at least as far as future employability was concerned. This didn’t bother me. Spending a
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LRSD moving board meeting online to reduce tensions
The Louis Riel School Division (LRSD) is moving its upcoming school trustee meeting online amid ongoing tensions from its last meeting that resulted in police being called and the meeting ending early. The division announced Tuesday that the meeting scheduled for Sept. 5
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