Shame, peer effects, and sexual behaviour

President Obama has argued for the implementation of a $9.00 per hour minimum wage, an increase from the current $7.25 rate. 

LONDON — The cardinal who until recently served as Britain’s highest-ranking Catholic leader on Sunday acknowledged unspecified sexual misbehaviour and promised to play “no further part” in the public life of the church, an admission which comes at an awkward time for the Vatican. Cardinal Keith O’Brien resigned Monday from his position as archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh after a newspaper published unnamed priests’ accounts of unspecified inappropriate behaviour.

The Toronto District School Board is set to announce a new mental-health strategy Tuesday, after a recent survey found many of the city’s students scored low on questions measuring social and emotional well-being.

A law professor is suing the school that suspended him after he was accused of sexually harassing a student and a staff member.

The University of Toronto has launched an investigation into allegations that Chris Spence, the beleaguered former director of the Toronto District School Board, quoted from other sources without proper attribution in his 1996 doctoral thesis. The news comes a day after a National Post plagiarism investigation prompted Mr. Spence to resign from the school board, which serves 250,000 Toronto students.

Four high school seniors from Georgia have gained nation-wide attention for trying to throw an interracial prom in their rural community.

The lawyer for one of the high school football players convicted Sunday for raping a 16-year-old girl announced he’s mounting an appeal. “We have the right to appeal and that is a right we will be exercising,” Ma’Lik Richmond’s lawyer, Walter Madison, told MailOnline. Madison took to the airwaves Monday to further defend his convicted client.