A record number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds have applied for the most selective UK university degrees, says the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas).
Accommodation costs take up almost all the average maintenance loan received by university students in England, says student housing charity Unipol.
The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $4.3 billion from April to August.
On Oct. 20, Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie came back from her temporary leave to overrule a previous rejection by city council and allow the building of four-unit housing on low-rise residential lots.
Inflation cooled to 3.8 per cent nationally last month, Statistics Canada said Tuesday, down from 4.0 per cent in August and snapping a streak of two consecutive monthly accelerations.
The Bank of Canada left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.0 per cent on Wednesday amid signs of cooling in the economy and easing in inflation.
Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products, a U.N. agency said Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order following three weeks of fighting between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers.
Mansour Shouman, a Canadian currently in Gaza, says basic necessities such as food and clean water are becoming more scarce as Israel expands its ground operation.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Israel must defeat Hamas and then focus on implementing a two-state solution, a longstanding diplomatic proposal to create an independent Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.
A small team of Canadian special operations forces have deployed to Israel in the wake of the October 7 attack, Global News has learned from multiple sources with direct knowledge of the mission.
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