The Current22:11Rethinking how we teach kids to read It’s back to school season, and several provinces across Canada are changing the way they’re teaching their […]
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New school year offers no relief for working teachers amid ongoing shortages
The Current18:42The teacher shortage is bad for kids — and bad for teachers too Back to school is a time for new beginnings, but elementary […]
New school year offers no relief for Canadian teachers amid ongoing shortages
The Current18:42The teacher shortage is bad for kids — and bad for teachers too Back to school is a time for new beginnings, but elementary […]
Ontario needs holistic approach to drug treatment amid consumption site closures, doctor says
The Current19:40People will die if safe consumption sites close, warns advocate Dr. Sharon Koivu says a decision by the Ontario government that will shutter 10 supervised […]
How Paralympian Amy Burk fell in love with the ‘unbelievably insane’ sport of goalball
The Current10:37Meet Amy Burk, Canada’s goalball star Amy Burk remembers the tension of her team competing in the goalball final at the Parapan American Games in […]
Bringing Inuit art back to Nunavut more urgent than ever, says advocate
The Current14:26Bringing Inuit art and artifacts back to Nunavut William Beveridge has been working for decades to bring collections of Inuit art scattered across Canada […]
A Manitoba farmer had a surplus of potatoes. So he gave millions of them away
The Current19:07The great potato giveaway What would you do with millions of potatoes? Manitoba farmer Isaiah Hofer faced exactly that conundrum recently. “Last year was […]
What are whales saying to each other? Scientists are a step closer to finding out
The Current16:06Decoding the sperm whale’s alphabet Scientists have examined thousands of hours of sperm whale calls — bursts of clicks known as codas �— and […]