8 d. ago Exclusive: B.C. public sector jobs have more than doubled under the NDP

Since 2017, government, health and education workers rose from 50,000 to 93,000. Total salaries jumped from $4.7B to $11.5B.

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1 week ago University of Toronto ranks among top 25 universities in the world

A new university ranking has once again named the University of Toronto as one of the top 25 post-secondary institutions in the world. The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is a consulting organization that provides policy advice and consulting services to governments and universities to improve educational and research outcomes. Since 2012, CWUR has been publishing its academic ranking of global universities that assesses the quality of education, employability, quality of faculty, and research without relying on university data submissions. In 2019, the ranking expanded to the top 2,000 out of the roughly 21,000 universities worldwide.As mentioned, the organization uses seven indicators grouped into four areas to rank the world's universities.These include education (based on the academic success of a university's alumni), employability (based on the professional success of a university's alumni), faculty (measured by the number of faculty...

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1 week ago B.C. Public Sector Salaries Database: Find out how much public servants make

Our updated searchable database contains salary information for over, 170,000 public servants in B.C. earning at least $75,000, including those working in government, health care, policing and education.

Economics

2 w. ago OSBCU Responds to New Education Legislation: ‘Police in Schools Won’t Fix an Understaffed, Underfunded System’

TORONTO — Earlier today, the Ford government and Education Minister Paul Calandra introduced the Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025, which includes provisions to make it easier for the province to take control of local school boards and mandates School Resource Officers (SROs)—police—in schools. In response, the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) is […]

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2 w. ago CATHOLIC TEACHERS RESPOND TO NEW PROVINCIAL LEGISLATION ON SCHOOL BOARD OVERSIGHT AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS

TORONTO, May 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — “The recent legislation introduced by Education Minister Paul Calandra is another example of how the Ford government is slowly and intentionally eroding local democracy in an attempt to distract from key issues in publicly funded education in Ontario. The proposed legislation expands ministerial powers to override locally elected […]

Society

2 w. ago Who should watch over what kids read, the Alberta government or educators?

Government and educators agree that there should be more oversight in school libraries, but they differ on who should set the rules.

Politics

3 w. ago OSBCU: Ford’s Status Quo Education Budget Fails Students, Parents, and Workers

TORONTO — The Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), representing over 57,000 frontline education workers, is raising serious concerns following the provincial government’s 2025 core education funding announcement, which continues to ignore the escalating crises in Ontario’s public education system. Despite claims of increased funding, the funding announcement fails to deliver the investment needed […]

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