Overcrowding

• Amid surging enrollment, Surrey looks at taller schools

  Earlier this month the province announced a four-storey expansion to Fleetwood Park Secondary in Surrey, B.C., that will hold an additional 800 students while avoiding land costs.

  Education

  Aug 19, 2024
  
• COVID-19 cases on the rise in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington

  Kingston Health Sciences Centre says it is seeing 15 to 20 people daily at Kingston General Hospital with COVID-19 and that getting vaccinations will ease the pressure on KGH.

  Health

  Dec 13, 2023
  
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• Longer days, online and year-round learning pitched as fixes to Surrey school crowding

  Online learning, operating schools year-round or even extending school days or dividing them into shifts, are being proposed as solutions to overcrowding in Surrey classrooms.

  Education

  Nov 21, 2023
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• Parents concerned over Grade 6 students moving to junior highs around Dartmouth, Halifax

  Some parents are concerned about a recent decision to move students going into Grade 6 at some Halifax-area schools this fall up to junior high due to overcrowding.

  Education

  May 11, 2023
• Report calls ER at Lakeshore General Hospital in Quebec a ‘ticking time bomb’

  The author of a 317-page report studying the health-care crisis in the emergency room at the Lakeshore General Hospital concludes the situation is a 'ticking time bomb.'

  Canada

  Nov 1, 2022
• Quebec sets up crisis management team as Montreal hospital ERs face overcrowding

  Health Minister Christian Dubé announced a crisis management team Wednesday at the provincial legislature as Montreal emergency departments face 'unacceptable' capacity crunches.

  Health

  Oct 26, 2022
• TVDSB delays boundary review decision to await response to new school requests

  An initial attendance area review report, which assumed the approval of two new schools, suggested numerous boundary and holding zone changes.

  Education

  Nov 24, 2021
• Sandbanks provincial park implements pre-booking passes to curb overcrowding

  If you want to spend a day at the beach at Sandbanks Provincial Park, you'll have to book in advance this year due to overcrowding issues in 2020.

  Canada

  Jun 8, 2021
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• Modular classrooms coming for five Halifax-area schools due to overcrowding

  The modular classrooms and washrooms are expected to be ready to welcome students in September.

  Canada

  Mar 30, 2021
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• Quebec opposition party wants private clinics to help fight COVID-19

  Québec solidaire will ask Premier François Legault to integrate private clinics into the public network to counter the skyrocketing number of hospitalizations linked to COVID-19.

  Politics

  Jan 19, 2021