Rural Alberta school moving to 4-day week, losing a teacher amid funding challenges

School division says cuts were triggered when student numbers for the coming year dropped below the province's 35-student funding threshold. This means Byemoor School will lose about $260,000 in provincial block funding.
Sexual assault trial of fashion mogul Peter Nygard begins in Montreal

The 84-year-old will face sexual assault and forcible confinement charges at the Montreal courthouse today. He has denied accusations that he used his position to lure women and girls.
New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for Jurassic Park role, dead at 78

Sam Neill, a smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose career moved from art film to blockbuster, has died at the age of 78.
She's giving her sister a kidney, but didn't know the financial toll

An Ottawa woman who is donating her kidney to her sister says she was shocked to learn that Nova Scotia won't cover travel expenses for her partner to support her.
The price of fish and chips is going up this summer in Atlantic Canada. Here’s why

The Pleasant Street Diner in Dartmouth, N.S., serves about 1,000 pounds of fresh haddock per week. But early this month, their supplier increased the price of the historically affordable fish by 40 per cent, or about $5 per pound. Overnight, their weekly haddock expenses went up $5,000.
N.L. teen whose intimate photo was shared says error by RCMP prevented her from getting justice

"It just hurts me, knowing that this could have went through, and that I could have got the justice I wanted," says a teenaged girl in N.L. who said an intimate photo of her was shared multiple times. But when a charge was eventually laid against a youth, the case was dismissed before it got to court.
Can the 'King of the North' fix a fractured Britain?

Andy Burnham is leaving his job as mayor of Manchester to become Britain’s new prime minister. Supporters say his ability to connect with voters and fix local issues is what Britain needs on a countrywide scale. Opponents counter that his successes are overstated.
It's extremely rare, but Carney isn't the first PM to shuffle an opposition member to the Senate

Former Conservative MP Richard Martel joins a unique club of senators who have been plucked directly from the House of Commons floor on the recommendation of a prime minister of a different political stripe.
Former public servant accused in foreign interference case involving China

A former federal scientist in an alleged foreign interference case is accused of copying more than 2,000 documents off a shared departmental server as his lifelong career was nearing its end, with the intention of sharing them with China, CBC News has learned.
