The Manitoba government has ordered a regional health authority to cut the amount of money its spends on private-agency nurses by 15 per cent by March of next year. Premier Wab Kinew says Prairie Mountain Health, which covers a large portion of western Manitoba, has been using more-costly private nurses and must focus more on […]

On Nov 14, students, staff and faculty learned that Peggy Shannon, the current president of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, would be leaving the job “soon” to “round out her career at another art school,” specifically the Kansas City Art Institute, and to reunite with her family in the US. NSCAD’s board […]

Data belonging to hundreds of thousands of Newfoundland and Labrador students was breached in a cyberattack targeting an information system used by schools across the country. The province’s Education Department says personal information from about 271,000 students was accessed in the attack on the PowerSchool platform, which is owned by a U.S.-based company. The data […]

Twenty-two days after being compelled by Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner to release environmental reports related to the former General Motors site in the core of the city, St. Catharines officials addressed the matter publicly, admitting they have had the disturbing reports that show dangerous contaminants at levels thousands of times above set limits, since […]

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DALLAS (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped the case against a Texas doctor who called himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors and was accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients who weren’t under his care. The dismissal of the case against Dr. Eithan Haim in U.S. district court in Houston comes […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for a man charged with murder in connection with the killings of four University of Idaho students are asking a judge to throw out most of the evidence in the case because they say it all hinges on an unconstitutional genetic investigation process. Bryan Kohberger’s defense team also contends that […]

The Calgary Board of Education said it still cannot confirm how many families, students and staff have been impacted by the PowerSchool data breach that happened last December. In an email to parents on Thursday morning, the school board said it is “working proactively with PowerSchool” and conducting an “internal investigation” to determine how many […]

PowerSchool, a U.S.-based provider of student information software, recently notified school boards in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Maritime provinces about a potential cybersecurity incident. The company became aware of unauthorized access to certain Student Information System (SIS) data on December 28 and informed the school boards about this issue two weeks ago. “As […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser on Wednesday sidelined about 160 National Security Council aides, sending them home while the administration reviews staffing and tries to align it with Trump’s agenda. The career government employees, commonly referred to as detailees, were summoned Wednesday for an all-staff call and told they will be […]

One year after AI-generated nudes of underage students from Winnipeg sparked a Canada-wide conversation about sexual violence in the age of artificial intelligence, the school division at the centre of the scandal has come up with a new protocol. The Louis Riel School Division released guidelines for teachers and other staff members working in classrooms […]

The president of the company involved in the Mount Polley environmental disaster that poured millions of cubic metres of mine tailings into B.C. waterways 10 years ago says the material spilled wasn’t toxic. Imperial Metals Corp. and two other firms were charged last month with 15 alleged Fisheries Act breaches, accused of allowing a “deleterious […]