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Explaining Quebec's new French requirement for out-of-province university students

Explaining Quebec's new French requirement for out-of-province university students

MONTREAL — Not only is Quebec hiking annual tuition for out-of-province students at McGill and Concordia universities to $12,000, the government will also require that 80 per cent of them graduate with an intermediate knowledge of spoken French.
‘Uniquely horrible choice:’ Few US adults want a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024, an AP-NORC poll shows

‘Uniquely horrible choice:’ Few US adults want a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024, an AP-NORC poll shows

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the presidential election no one is really jazzed about.
Kentucky Supreme Court upholds legislative, congressional boundaries passed by GOP-led legislature

Kentucky Supreme Court upholds legislative, congressional boundaries passed by GOP-led legislature

Kentucky’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Republican-drawn boundaries for state House and congressional districts, rejecting Democratic claims that the majority party's mapmaking amounted to gerrymandering in violation of the state’s constitution.
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh, wife Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu welcome second baby girl

New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh, wife Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu welcome second baby girl

TORONTO — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, are the proud parents of their second baby girl. Party officials say the baby is healthy and doing well, as is her mother.
Trump's first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in March but legal appeals threaten that date

Trump's first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in March but legal appeals threaten that date

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case in Washington once appeared likely to be the first of the former president's criminal trials to begin, with the judge having scheduled a March 4 start date.
House approves impeachment inquiry into President Biden as Republicans rally behind investigation

House approves impeachment inquiry into President Biden as Republicans rally behind investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday authorized the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, with every Republican rallying behind the politically charged process despite lingering concerns among some in the party that the investigation has
The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends

The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
'Damaging': Saskatchewan high school rejects author's talk on son coming out as gay

'Damaging': Saskatchewan high school rejects author's talk on son coming out as gay

REGINA — Ruby Remenda Swanson says she never thought her hometown high school would be the only place to bar her from sharing her family's story.
Hierarchical police, military and CSIS in need of harassment reckoning: professor

Hierarchical police, military and CSIS in need of harassment reckoning: professor

VANCOUVER — Bonnie Robichaud's ordeal started in the late 1970s when she got a unionized job as a cleaner on a military base in Ontario, and a Department of National Defence employee began sexually harassing her.
'A bucket and a net and you're in business.' Looming tensions in Maritime eel fishery

'A bucket and a net and you're in business.' Looming tensions in Maritime eel fishery

HALIFAX — Commercial harvesters of baby eels in the Maritimes say there’s little hope the poaching and violence that forced the closure of the lucrative fishery last season will subside in 2024.
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