National

B.C. Public Schools To Provide Free Menstrual Products For Students

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 05 Apr, 2019 08:36 PM

BURNABY, B.C. — Free menstrual products are being made available in every British Columbia public school.

Education Minister Rob Fleming says a ministerial ordered requires all public schools to provide free menstrual products for students in washrooms by the end of the year.

Fleming says the province will provide $300,000 in start up funding for school districts and supply ongoing money for the program.

The minister says free menstrual products should have been a basic service long ago at schools, and it will now help create a better learning environment for students.

Current research indicates one in seven students have missed class because they couldn't afford menstrual products.

Grade 11 student Rebecca Ballard says the free products will go a long way towards ending taboos that students feel about menstruation.

Prev Next

MORE National ARTICLES

Here Comes Novel Device Equally Harmful As Traditional Smoking, E-Cigarettes

The study has compared new heated tobacco devices, which heat solid tobacco instead of an e-liquid, with vaping and traditional cigarettes showing that all the three are toxic to the cells.

Here Comes Novel Device Equally Harmful As Traditional Smoking, E-Cigarettes

Privacy Commissioner Finds Doctors Snooped In Humboldt Broncos Patient Records

Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured in the crash between the junior hockey team's bus and a semi trailer at a rural Saskatchewan intersection.

Privacy Commissioner Finds Doctors Snooped In Humboldt Broncos Patient Records

Do Not Disturb: Calgary Zoo Wildlife Centre Aims To Save Endangered Species

CALGARY — A narrow, snow-covered gravel road winds its way to a hidden gate that opens to a parcel of land on the southern tip of Calgary.

Do Not Disturb: Calgary Zoo Wildlife Centre Aims To Save Endangered Species

Man Accused Of Killing Ailing Wife Wasn't Suffering From Major Depression: Expert

MONTREAL — A Crown expert says a Montreal man on trial for second-degree murder showed no evidence of major depression at the time his severely ill wife was killed.

Man Accused Of Killing Ailing Wife Wasn't Suffering From Major Depression: Expert

Odd Couple Of The Deep: B.C. Dolphins Hang Out With Killer Whales

VANCOUVER — Drone flights have revealed an odd couple of the deeps.

Odd Couple Of The Deep: B.C. Dolphins Hang Out With Killer Whales

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister Down South While His Social Media Marvels At Winnipeg Snow

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister appeared to marvel on social media in recent days at Winnipeg's wintry weather, but in reality he was at his vacation home in tropical Costa Rica, his office has confirmed.