How the Canada Child Benefit can boost higher learning
The Canada Child Benefit (CCB) is a tax-free monthly payment made to eligible families to help them with the cost of raising children under 18 years of age. The CCB helps boost the bottom...
Author: Jennifer Palisoc
Back to School Shopping and Saving Tips
It may be the middle of summer but signs that the kids will soon be heading back to school are showing up on store shelves everywhere. We may not be prepared to think about...
Healthy eating habits build learning skills
Welcome to Clavet, Saskatchewan. Population 386. It may be small but it is mighty. Every day the village triples in size when over 650 students are bussed in from surrounding centres. “The bus rides...
Living the Canadian dream – the story of a new immigrant
When you meet Crystal Song, she is full of energy and ambition. She’s the kind of person you meet and instinctively think, “we’re going to say we knew her when.” Unless you asked, you...
No bullying allowed at this camp for LGBTQ kids
School wasn’t always a welcoming place for Bernadette. Bullying at school was a part of her life from a young age. “At one point, I found out about a petition that some of my classmates...
Putting the Brakes on Summer Road Trip Expenses
Ahh..the summer road trip. Load up the car, pack snacks and games for the kids and head out on your family adventure! Admittedly along the journey, it can be easy to spend more than...
Students develop education app to solve literacy crisis
They are only 11 to 14 years old and they’ve developed an education app they believe will help blind children and adults learn how to read Braille. “Since only 10% of the blind population...
