> The financial literacy portion will teach students how to manage their money in the future, covering topics like "debt, savings, how to use a credit card, [and] how to take out a mortgage or rent," said Lecce in Wednesday's announcement.
> The overhaul will also end the practice of separating Grade 9 students into applied and academic courses to ensure no one is at a disadvantage or excluded from learning about these essential skills.
Mixed feelings on this. Teaching this stuff is great, but I worry (especially because Ford), the idea is "let's fix poverty by teaching poor people how to manage their money". When, you know, that's not the problem.
US Catholic bishops OK steps toward possible rebuke of Biden apnews.com/article/…
They're condemning them for supporting womens rights (specifically, abortion).
> Supporters of the measure said a strong rebuke of Biden was needed because of his recent actions protecting and expanding abortion access, while opponents warned that such action would portray the bishops as a partisan force during a time of bitter political divisions across the country.
> Five hundred Hong Kong police officers sifted through reporters' computers and notebooks at pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on Thursday, the first case in which authorities have cited media articles as potentially violating the national security law.
> Around dawn, police arrested five executives of the newspaper, and officers were later seen sitting at computers in the newsroom after entering with a warrant to seize journalistic materials, including from reporters' phones and laptops.
> He did not elaborate on the dozens of articles at which police said they were taking aim, but said the five were arrested for a conspiracy to make "use of journalistic work" to incite foreign forces to impose sanctions on Hong Kong and China.
