25 h. ago ‘A good day is only getting hit three times’: CUPE education workers from across the province demand action at Queens Park as school violence soars across Ontario

TORONTO — On Saturday, hundreds of education workers from across Ontario rallied at Queens Park to demand the Ford government take immediate action to address the growing crisis of violence in schools. The Ontario government has cut billions from public education since 2018, creating a crisis in underfunding and understaffing at schools across the province. […]

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3 d. ago Opinion: 'Parental rights' threaten to take public education backwards

As students across Alberta returned to class this fall, families were met with a slate of changes ushered in by the United Conservative Party (UCP) government. Under the Education Amendment Act, schools are now required to notify parents if a student asks to be called by a different name or pronoun at school — the […]

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1 week ago Not fooled by Conservatives’ scapegoating school boards, Ontarians blame Ford’s underfunding for school cuts: poll

TORONTO — Just weeks after students returned to class and a month since Education Minister Paul Calandra began his scapegoat-the-school-boards media blitz, a new poll has found that a decisive majority of Ontarians lay the blame for cuts to public education and the lack of support services in schools at the door of Doug Ford’s […]

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2 w. ago Kot: To fix the public school board, start with special education

If we don’t give our students adequate resources now, we will pay a much higher price in the future.

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2 w. ago Locals are totally up in arms about proposed 'giant monolith' Toronto tower

A planned rental tower on the cusp of approval by Toronto City Council has fired up local residents in the affluent Avenue and St. Clair area, characterizing the planned building as a "monstrosity" and "giant monolith" that threatens the safety of the area.The proposal from developer Fitzrovia and Hariri Pontarini Architects at 135 St. Clair Ave. W. would see the current government office building at the southeast corner of Avenue Rd. and St. Clair razed to make way for a 49-storey rental tower with 576 new apartments, retail, public art, and an early childhood education centre.But despite the concessions made in height and other departments introduced since the plan was first proposed in 2024, residents of the surrounding area — one of the most affluent in Toronto — have taken up all of the familiar talking points about how large-scale developments would unacceptably impact their day-to-day lives.Currently recommended for approval by City planners, t...

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2 w. ago MCCAUGHEY: Zohran Mamdani a red flag of what a brainwashed electorate will choose

Get ready for more Zohran Mamdani-like candidates — avowed socialists — to soar to popularity across New York state and the rest of the U.S. We the public have ceded control of education to the far left. The result is a curriculum that never mentions the brutal consequences of socialist experiments in Eastern Europe, Latin […]

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