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'Don't cause any problems': Doug Ford sends message to pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses
Asked what actions his government would take if encampments on university grounds related to pro-Palestinian protests occurred in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford responded on Tuesday that he has "all the confidence in the world" the universities' security can handle the situation. His message to protesters was, "Don't interrupt some students' graduation. Don't interrupt the students from learning...Don't cause any problems there," adding he supports students.
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USA TODAY
'Could have been a far worse tragedy': Wisconsin police kill armed teen outside school
Mount Horeb Middle School is about 20 miles west of Madison and school leaders said a potential shooter was 'neutralized' Wednesday.
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CBC
Quebec now requires all new and renovated schools to have gender-specific bathrooms
Quebec's school service centres will have to ensure bathrooms and changing rooms newly built or renovated are gender specific rather than gender neutral, according to a new government directive published Wednesday in the province's Official Gazette."I believe that our boys and girls in schools have the right to have a private space," Education Minister Bernard Drainville said Wednesday.The controversy dates back to last year when a petition was launched against a plan to make gendered bathrooms
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The Canadian Press
Court rejects students' request for injunction against McGill encampment
MONTREAL — Pro-Palestinian activists who have pitched their tents on the McGill University campus scored a legal victory on Wednesday when a Quebec judge rejected a request for an injunction to stop their protest. Two students at the Montreal university had asked Quebec Superior Court to order protesters to move at least 100 metres from school buildings, saying their presence had created an environment of aggression and left them feeling unsafe. Justice Chantal Masse ruled Wednesday that the stu
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Associated Press
Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families
Utah public schools have been rushing to prepare students and teachers as the state starts cracking down Wednesday on any school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender people. Residents and visitors are required under state law to use bathrooms and changing rooms in government-owned buildings that correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Although the law took effect when Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed it Jan. 30, it was not widely enforced before a key compliance mechanism began this week.
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CNN Business
Amid campus protests, some teens and parents reconsider enrollment decisions
Earlier this year, an 18-year-old high school senior from New York City had planned to enroll at Columbia University’s sister school Barnard College in Manhattan as an early decision student. But after her parents saw heightened tensions over the Israel-Gaza conflict surface across some US campuses, including at Barnard and Columbia, they went back to her list.
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The Canadian Press
Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall
NEW YORK (AP) — Police officers carrying zip ties and riot shields stormed a Columbia University building being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters, streaming in through a window late Tuesday and arresting dozens of people. The protesters had seized the administration building, known as Hamilton Hall, more than 20 hours earlier in a major escalation as demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war spread on college campuses nationwide. A statement released by a Columbia spokesperson said office
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Associated Press
Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says
Police shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon, the state's attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on gunshots that sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown of local schools. Authorities had previously said an active shooter who never got inside the building was “neutralized” outside Mount Horeb Middle School. State Attorney General Josh Kaul told reporters Wednesday evening no one else was harmed and that an investigation is ongoing.
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United Press International
NYPD enters Columbia University, arrests dozens of protesters inside Hamilton Hall
Hundreds of New York Police Department officers wearing riot gear swarmed Columbia University's campus Tuesday night and entered Hamilton Hall where they cleared the building and arrested dozens of protesters.
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CBC
Education minister threatens to dissolve Moncton-area education council
Education Minister Bill Hogan is threatening to dissolve the Anglophone East district education council if it doesn't stop spending money on its legal fight with the province by the end of Thursday.Hogan says in a new letter to the council chair that he wants it to confirm in writing by 5 p.m. Thursday that it will ask its lawyers to return any money devoted to the case and not spend any more."It is my opinion that the Litigation Expenditure is evidence that the resources of the DEC are being ex
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The Daily Beast
We Don’t Need Warrior Cops Policing Campus Protests
Suzanne Corderio / Getty“Rather than muzzle students, we should allow them to hear and be heard,” New York Times columnist Pamela Paul wrote recently. “It’s worth remembering how children once responded to schoolyard epithets: ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me.’ Narrow restrictions on putatively harmful speech leave young people distracted from and ill-prepared for the actual violence they’ll encounter in the real world.”It's good advice. Unfortunately, I've mis
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Associated Press
Northwestern University's deal with student protesters offers example of successful negotiations
For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University’s Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide. By quickly defusing the protests in Evanston and avoiding the longer standoffs that happened on other campuses, the agreement at Northwestern offered an example of successful negotiations between anti-war demonstrators and administrators. Brown University announced a similar deal on Tuesday, while administrators at Johns Hopkins University focused talks on limiting student protests to daytime hours.
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CBC
What does divestment from Israel actually mean for schools?
Students' demands that their universities divest their endowments from companies that do business with Israel are easier said than done, says Chris Marsicano, an assistant professor of educational studies and public policy at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C.
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CBC
Small group gathers near University of Waterloo in solidarity with U.S students protesting Israel-Gaza war
A small group of students and residents gathered near the University of Waterloo on Wednesday in solidarity with American students occupying parts of university campuses across the U.S. in protest of the Israel-Hamas war. Tamara Lorincz, the co-organizer of the local rally and a PhD candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University, said that the rally will be a weekly event, meeting at University Avenue where it crosses the Laurel Trail. "This is why I'm doing this action today, is to just try to be very
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Sky News
US university protests: 300 arrested as police in riot gear break up clashes at two campuses
About 300 people have been arrested during police crackdowns on protests at US universities. In the early hours of Wednesday, police were called into Columbia University in New York, and also broke up protests at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as demos over the Israel-Hamas war reached boiling point. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said about 300 people were arrested at Columbia and nearby City College.
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CNN
Iranians protest in solidarity with students
Frederik Pleitgen looks Iranian students showing solidarity with U.S. campus protesters.
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The Canadian Press
Experts fear 'catastrophic' college declines thanks to botched FAFSA rollout
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form — a financial aid application that's supposed to help students go to college, but is blocking her instead. She has tried to submit it over and over. Every time, it fails to go through. “I feel overwhelmed and stressed out,” said Bijoux, 19. She came close to tears the last time she tried the form. “I feel like I'm being held back." Normally a time of celebration for high school seniors, thi
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France 24 Videos
Columbia University property cleared, dozens of protestors arrested
Dozens of helmeted police marched on to Columbia University's campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday and began evicting a building that had been barricaded by pro-Palestinian student protesters.
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The Hill
GOP senator calls for deporting certain foreign student protesters
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called for the U.S. government to revoke the visas given to international students who are Hamas sympathizers and deport them as college protests continue nationwide. “You cannot go around yelling ‘I am Hamas’ or ‘We are Hamas’ or ‘River to the sea’ and pushing out Jewish students and have the university not…
2 days ago
Associated Press
The Latest | Police tell UCLA protesters to disperse or face arrest
Announcements broadcasted on the University of California, Los Angeles campus Wednesday evening told demonstrators to disperse or they would be arrested and face a misdemeanor charge. The protesters largely stayed in place, chanting pro-Palestinian slogans. UCLA posted on the social platform X that campus operations will be limited Thursday and Friday with all classes required to pivot to remote instruction.
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'Don't cause any problems': Doug Ford sends message to pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses

'Could have been a far worse tragedy': Wisconsin police kill armed teen outside school

Quebec now requires all new and renovated schools to have gender-specific bathrooms

Court rejects students' request for injunction against McGill encampment

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families

Amid campus protests, some teens and parents reconsider enrollment decisions

Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall

Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says

NYPD enters Columbia University, arrests dozens of protesters inside Hamilton Hall

Education minister threatens to dissolve Moncton-area education council

We Don’t Need Warrior Cops Policing Campus Protests

Northwestern University's deal with student protesters offers example of successful negotiations

What does divestment from Israel actually mean for schools?

Small group gathers near University of Waterloo in solidarity with U.S students protesting Israel-Gaza war

US university protests: 300 arrested as police in riot gear break up clashes at two campuses

Iranians protest in solidarity with students

Experts fear 'catastrophic' college declines thanks to botched FAFSA rollout

Columbia University property cleared, dozens of protestors arrested

GOP senator calls for deporting certain foreign student protesters

The Latest | Police tell UCLA protesters to disperse or face arrest