The Ontario government said Tuesday it is introducing a number of new measures to boost lagging police recruitment numbers, including eliminating a post-secondary education requirement to be hired as an officer and covering the costs of mandatory training.
“We need more police officers on our streets, more boots on the ground,” Premier Doug Ford said at a news conference at the Ontario Police College. He was joined by Solicitor General Michael Kerzner and Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw.
Ford said he had heard from the chiefs of various police services, who said they are seeing increases in major crimes like…
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Alberta is increasing access to career-related training for students in grades 7 to 12, the latest move from the UCP aimed at bringing a greater vocational focus to the education sector.
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Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said at a Monday news conference the province is implementing several recommendations from a task force convened last summer to review career education for middle- and high-school students, and evaluate how best to prepare students to transition from K-12 education to a job or post-secondary studies.
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Those recommendations include boosting access to off-campus education, developing and funding training for…
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A Canadian Taxpayers Federation official questions why former MPs who already get large severance checks upon leaving office need access to such benefits
Published April 18, 2023 • Last updated 3 days ago • 4 minute read
Former Conservative MP Brad Trost, who lost his party’s nomination in 2019, billed the full $15,000 limit on courses at Harvard University. Photo by Taylor Hermiston/Postmedia/File
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Ivy League courses, executive training, and certifications from new-age self-help gurus are among the post-political life transition expenses claimed by former members of Parliament.
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Carter Churchill’s family won a human rights case against the Newfoundland and Labrador English School District in March. (Submitted by Kimberly Churchill )
The Newfoundland and Labrador English School District says it accepts the findings of a human rights tribunal report that it ordered to provide Carter Churchill — a profoundly deaf child from Portugal Cove-St. Phillip’s — with education and evaluation in American Sign Language and pay his family nearly $150,000 for discrimination.
Carter’s parents, Todd and Kimberly Churchill, won the human rights case against the district in early March after a year-long fight to get their son the…
Once again, Orlando Bloom is listing his modern Beverly Hills pad, this time as a rental for $35,000 a month, according to Mansion Global. The contemporary-style four-bedroom and four-bathroom home was listed by Eric DeAngelis of the Oppenheim Group (of Selling Sunset fame) on Wednesday as a furnished rental. Bloom previously listed the property for sale in 2019 with a price tag of just under $9 million.
The Carnival Row actor bought the 4,011-square-foot structure in 2017 for $7 million and proceeded to spend about $5 million on improvements to the property, according to the listing. Bloom renovated the kitchen…