Nearly 700 people were arrested Wednesday night after a protest over sharply higher university tuition in Quebec erupted into another night of violence. full story ![]()
Canada's statistics reporting agency says the bilingual English-French portion of Canada's population is on the decline as immigration increases. Statistics Canada reported this week that English-French bilingualism declined over the past decade to 17.5 percent of Canada's population, down from 17.7 percent. It was the first drop in the five decades that the government has...
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Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees.
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The impairment of a pilot and marginal weather led to the crash of a commercial flight of a small turboprop plane in Canada’s far north that killed two people and injured two others, a report released on Wednesday said.
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Four female Ohio University students were arrested during the Ohio University Board of Trustees meeting Friday morning following a protest of a tuition increase that was unanimously approved.
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Ohio University trustees approved a tuition increase yesterday after campus police arrested four student protesters who refused to leave the meeting.
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After a week of avoiding journalists, Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto on Friday denied accusations that he smoked crack cocaine.
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Quebec's chief electoral officer has raised questions about clusters of donations by associates of a Quebec accounting firm to both the Conservative Party of Canada and the Liberal Party of Canada, and to a former Conservative Quebec MP's riding association.
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Board of Regents on Thursday approved tuition increases at the state’s three public universities and directed staff to explore legal options to reduce tuition for some immigrants
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A coroner ruled Monday that the death of a Polish immigrant after he was repeatedly stunned with a police Taser in the Vancouver airport was a homicide.
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A Canadian naval intelligence officer, who gave Russia secrets from five nations, including the United States, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday.
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