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Efforts to get a new contract for faculty at the University of Alberta will go to arbitration.
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Half an hour after Linda Cardinal turned out to protest against chief and council at the Enoch Cree Resort Wednesday, someone torched the car left sitting in her driveway.
In a first for the prairie provinces, the Edmonton public school board approved a policy for schools that deals with discrimination based on sexual orientation. The motion, put forward by board member Christopher Spencer, passed by a vote of eight to one at a school board meeting Tuesday night.
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Video: Band Share Day 2011
Twenty-seven Edmonton Catholic School bands, over 1,500 students, perform at a world class venue, the Winspear Centre for Band Share Day 2011 in Edmonton. This is an opportunity for students to perform in an informal, non-competitive, fun event. Video by Ed Kaiser.
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Gallery: Band Share Day
Band Share Day is an annual event where students from Edmonton Catholic schools have an opportunity to experience playing in a world class venue, the Winspear Centre. This year about 1500 students from 27 bands took part.
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Broken Pencils
Twenty years of local control hasn’t fixed First Nations education and 9,000 students risk being marginalized the rest of their lives. In this four-part series, Edmonton Journal reporter Elise Stolte asks why and finds one school that bucks the trend.
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Map: Edmonton Public Schools populations
Use this map and database to see how the population of Edmonton's public schools has changed from last year to this year.
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Map: Edmonton Catholic Schools populations
Use this map and database to see how the population of Edmonton's catholic schools has changed from last year to this year.
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St. Albert is the oldest community in Alberta, a community with deep Roman Catholic roots, founded in 1861 by missionary Father Albert Lacombe.
A Morinville mother’s battle for secular education has sparked a wider debate about the role of public schools in the town, where only Catholic education is available. The issue has garnered attention from community media, and discussion is spreading across the town, which has deep religious roots.
The small gym at Westminster School was transformed Monday afternoon as dozens of students and their instruments filled the space for a last-minute band rehearsal.
As many as 300 teachers around the province could lose their jobs because of cuts to an innovative government grant program, according to the Alberta Teachers’ Association. In Thursday’s budget, the government slashed funding for the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) in half, from $80 million to $40 million.
The Grade 6 girls from Fultonvale Elementary held all the power in their hands — the small robot, defenceless.
Brett Howard is a special type of nightmare for traditional university fundraisers. She changed addresses twice since graduating from the University of Alberta eight months ago. She only uses a cellphone, jokes about evading the telemarketer’s annual phone call, and just cancelled her subscription to the alumni magazine.
A five-storey climbing tower has become the key feature in plans for the new student activity centre on the University of Alberta campus.
Grant MacEwan University announced Friday that David Atkinson will be its next president.
New guidelines to help schools fight bullying and boost support for gay students are due out this spring, according to Edmonton public school officials.
Allegations of fraud and counter allegations of a “lynch-mob” are threatening the tenuous success of Enoch First Nations’ Kitaskinaw School.
Lincoln Nanaquawetung is careful as he chops and dices peppers, tomatoes and a red onion.
A University of Alberta researcher may be making strides in the ongoing fight against Alzheimer’s disease, using a drug originally intended to treat diabetes.
A new partnership between UNESCO and Athabasca University could help people in communities hundreds of kilometres from the nearest library access information.
NAIT’s administration is recommending that seven programs be cut from the academic calendar this fall rather than the 13 programs originally proposed last April.
For many young people, it must sound like a real double-whammy: sick enough to be in hospital, but still going to school.
Dena Nicolai moved from Edmonton to Egypt out of curiosity five years ago, and now finds herself with an uncomfortable front-row seat to the biggest revolution in the region in 30 years.
Education Minister Dave Hancock unilaterally ended wage-freeze talks with Alberta teachers at an emergency meeting early Friday morning, education officials say.
The Edmonton Public School district announced Friday that
it's looking for names for two new schools, one being built in
Summer-side-Ellerslie in south Edmonton, the other in the
Hamptons-Grange areas of west Edmonton.
Watch live video of Tuesday's meeting of the Edmonton Public School Board, starting at at 6 p.m.
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