The Waterloo Region District School Board says it has issued layoff notices to 106 teachers. (Carmen Groleau/CBC - image credit)The Waterloo Region District School Board has given surplus notices to 106 teachers. The teachers were "declared surplus" on Thursday and Jeff Pelich, president of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) Waterloo Region, said it's because the Ministry of Education has not yet released its education funding for the 2024-25 school year. Pelich said while some of the teachers will return to the classroom in the fall, "it's naive to assume that it will be business as usual for our school board." "We have provided the Waterloo Region District School Board with $830 million for the upcoming 2024-25 school year, a $24 million increase from this year.

Moose hide tanning camp offers all ages age-old techniquesNewsDuration 1:24A moose hide tanning camp this week in Inuvik is teaching more than age-old techniques. Organizers say it's a healing camp meant to encourage people to share with each other. The CBC's Dez Loreen went to check it out.

The Fall Guy is a goofy, over-the-top love letter to stunt performersNewsDuration 8:42Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt have some real chemistry, but our reviewers are split on whether their silly-sweet romance saves epic action-comedy The Fall Guy from itself.

Private equity's increasing role in health care worries advocatesNewsDuration 2:24U.S. lawmakers are investigating the practice of private equity firms acquiring hospitals. Although the role of private equity in the Canadian health-care system is more limited, it is growing and some research shows it can lead to worse patient-care outcomes.

Hillel Ontario's CEO reacts to U of T encampmentNewsDuration 0:42Hillel Ontario's CEO Seth Goren told reporters that the University of Toronto is responsible for ensuring Jewish students can participate fully in student life, after a pro-Palestine encampment protest began at the centre of the university’s downtown campus on Thursday.

At Issue | Poilievre calls Trudeau’s drug policies ‘wacko’NewsDuration 22:52At Issue this week: Pierre Poilievre gets booted from the House of Commons after calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his support for B.C.’s drug decriminalization 'wacko' and hints he’ll use the notwithstanding clause to get tough on crime if he becomes prime minister. Plus, are the government’s climate policies working?

For Asian Heritage Month, we’re celebrating Asian identities through artArtists express their stories and dreams through sculpture, song and danceFor Asian Heritage Month, CBC Saskatchewan connected with Asian Canadian artists to allow them to express their own stories through art. For Asian Heritage Month, they created this original work for CBC under the theme, Finding strength in our (hi)stories. Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. Retourner au début du widget ?

Stormy Daniels's former lawyer testifies at Trump hush money trialNewsDuration 2:03Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial resumed in New York with porn star Stormy Daniels's former lawyer testifying that he helped arrange the deal to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

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Under such an emergency, specific areas, ranging from small regions within sub-basins to entire river basins or the province itself, could be affected. Any existing water-sharing agreements would be overridden in such instances.

How U.S. campus protests spread to Canada and beyond | About ThatNewsDuration 12:13Pro-Palestinian protest encampments are cropping up on university campuses around the world — including in Canada — and police are in some areas moving in to dismantle them. Andrew Chang traces the spread of the demonstrations, and breaks down what protesters want and how schools are responding.

Former employees of Pirch, the high-end kitchen furnishing store that filed for bankruptcy last month, have filed a class-action lawsuit against the retailer. In the lawsuit, filed Wednesday, former Pirch worker Liza Rogers and others in the class allege that Pirch failed to follow state and federal laws when it laid them off abruptly several weeks ago. Specifically, employees say Pirch failed to follow the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. On April 19, Pirch filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Customers have also asked for criminal inquiries into the company, and Rogers filed a complaint with the state regarding the alleged WARN Act violation.

A property formerly owned by hotel developer Doug Manchester sold for $35 million this week — making it La Jolla’s biggest-ever sale. The more than 30-acre property at 7007 Country Club Drive beats the previous biggest La Jolla sale by more than $10 million. That sale was strictly for the 8-acre Foxhill Estate, but Manchester purchased adjoining lots over time, bringing the total to 32 acres. The biggest sale in San Diego County was 2940 Sandy Lane in Del Mar, which sold for $44.1 million in October. The Foxhill Estate is around the third or fourth biggest sale, according to the latest publicly available data.

Ontario's 1st new full-service provincial park in 40 years is one step closer to openingNewsDuration 3:27Plans continue to move ahead for the first new full-service, operating provincial park in 40 years. There's an open house happening on Saturday for the community to weigh in on Bigwind Lake Provincial Park in the Muskoka region. New details about the proposal were released last month. CBC’s Talia Ricci visited the park to learn more.

How the search for a missing woman led investigators to the Saskatoon landfillNewsDuration 1:44Police are searching the Saskatoon landfill as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Mackenzie Lee Trottier, a 22-year-old woman who was last seen in 2020.