Harvard is being sued over claims that a crackdown on single-sex social clubs at the Boston-area university amounts to sexual discrimination. A number of sororities and fraternities filed lawsuits on Monday challenging a policy Harvard adopted in 2016. Under the policy, students who join single-sex clubs cannot receive endorsement letters from college deans for postgraduate […]
Front-line staff members who have worked in homes run by Addiction and Mental Health Services KFLA, are saying staffing cuts have lefts clients frequently with little to no supervision, causing dangerous situations for both staff and clients. Global Kingston spoke with two people who work in the agency’s housing units, both of whom wish to […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The head of New York City’s Office of Emergency Management, Joseph Esposito, whose role includes overseeing the city’s response to acts of terrorism and major snowstorms, was asked last week by a deputy mayor to resign, according to a […]
Statistics Canada is delaying its plan to obtain the personal banking information of 500,000 Canadian households and has temporarily halted collecting credit records from TransUnion, a major international credit bureau. The decision comes amid an ongoing controversy around the national statistical agency’s plan to launch a pilot project that would gather the sensitive personal financial […]
A teacher has been slammed for "ruining Christmas" for a class of six-year-olds – by telling them Santa isn’t real. The supply teacher also dismissed a number of other festive traditions, including Easter, on Friday. The excited youngsters at Cedar Hill School in Montville, New Jersey, were talking about Christmas when the teacher confessed the […]
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising more money for police to combat gun and gang violence and says he will audit Canadian jail programs to make sure inmates are ready to rejoin society when their sentences are up. Scheer released the third and final part of his public-safety policy Monday, with six proposals. […]
A university in North Carolina says a possible gunman has been reported on campus and is telling people to take shelter. In a tweet, William Peace University said a gunman was reportedly on his way to the campus. School spokesman Ian Dunne said Raleigh police are on the scene to investigate. William Peace is a […]
The Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) will be closing temporarily as the museum begins construction on Scotty, the world’s largest T.rex. There will be a brief construction closure of the RSM starting on Dec. 10 in order to create the opening in the second floor to make room for Scotty. The RSM will re-open for the […]
A man was cleared of carrying out a solo sex act on a New York train after he claimed he had merely been adjusting his "big" penis. A woman sitting opposite Kosta Kolaci, 61, filmed the incident which she claimed was evidence of him inappropriately touching himself. But a judge tossed out the case when […]
MADISON, Wis. — Facing the prospect of sharing political power for the first time in almost a decade, Republicans in Wisconsin are racing to set new limits on the authority of Democrats who will soon take over the offices of governor and attorney general. It was the latest effort by leaders of a state to […]