Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Dave McGinn
Publication Date: May 3, 2025 - 06:30
Indigenous high-school students get hands-on experience in skilled trades with school course
May 3, 2025
When Simon McKay’s high-school guidance counsellor told him about a new class where students learn skilled trades by building a house from the ground up, which is then donated to a member of a nearby First Nation, the teenager was eager to enroll.By his own admission, sitting at a desk while a teacher lectures from the blackboard has never been the way the 18-year-old learns best, and so the new class had an instant appeal.
Unpublished Newswire
Set for release on May 13 with Sutherland House Books, Canada’s Main Street: The Epic Story of the Trans-Canada Highway by Craig Baird finally gives this nation-shaping infrastructure project its due. In this excerpt, Baird introduces the ambitious, messy and overlooked saga of the coast-to-coast highway that is the true spine of modern Canada.
The Trans-Canada Highway. We live by it. We drive on it. We depend on it for the goods we use. And yet, we barely think about it. Why?
Is it because, for most of us, the Trans-Canada Highway has always just been there? Something we take for...
May 7, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don’t see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues.With a general election looming, officials prepared to meet last November to brainstorm solutions to the problem of social fragmentation, according to an internal presentation drafted by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
May 7, 2025 - 06:55 | Jim Bronskill | The Globe and Mail
Alert Ready, Canada’s emergency public alerting system, will be put to the test today.The alert and its distinctive tone will be broadcast on TV, radio, and some compatible wireless devices.Each province or territory has a specific test time, ranging from morning to afternoon, except Quebec, which does not participate.
May 7, 2025 - 06:42 | | The Globe and Mail
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