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4 ways to empower students to spark social change
Monday, January 12th, 2026
… students crave more than passive listening and are eager to translate knowledge into actionable solutions… Simple, everyday activities can be life-changing when integrated into traditional teaching. The key is shifting from one-way lectures toward open dialogue, peer collaboration and personal reflection. These changes foster the trust and inspiration students need to ask better questions, listen deeply and see themselves as capable of creating real-world change.
Tags: Education, participation, youth
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Blame Doug Ford, not international students, for the catastrophe facing Ontario colleges and universities
Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
… years of underfunding, mismanagement and neglect, colleges and universities across the province are slashing programs and cutting jobs… the harm may become irrevocable. Even in the best case, it will take years, and perhaps decades, to repair the damage already done… postsecondary education is a provincial responsibility…
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Ontario won’t have charter schools, board closings or mergers, pledges education minister
Saturday, December 6th, 2025
Education Minister Paul Calandra said Friday that… “There will be no closing of school boards in whatever we do… We’re not amalgamating school boards. I’m not bringing in charter schools. I’m not merging the public system and the Catholic system together… But… nothing has convinced him that the ”$43 billion Ministry of Education budget should be delivered by trustees across the province of Ontario.”
Tags: Education, jurisdiction, participation
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Federal budget creates a massive educational opportunity for Doug Ford
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Ontario’s universities have the lowest per-student funding of any province in Canada… crumbling infrastructure and outdated instrumentation… reductions in support staff, early retirement incentives, and hiring freezes for new faculty. Such actions have resulted in Ontario having the worst student-teacher ratio of any province in the country. Moreover, larger class sizes, fewer teaching assistants, and stripped-down learning opportunities have quickly become the norm on many university campuses.
Tags: budget, Education, featured, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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It’s not just penny-pinching premiers that teachers are up against
Friday, October 31st, 2025
When teachers call for reduced class sizes, more support and better teaching conditions — better learning conditions — they’re not being self-serving. They’re thinking about every kid in every classroom. They’re thinking about the collective future we want those kids to create. Too bad the politics of narrow ignorance keeps getting in the way.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Ontario’s colleges were founded to serve local and regional needs — have we forgotten that?
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
By the late 1980s… per-student funding had already fallen by roughly one-third. The trend accelerated in 1995 when $120 million was cut… Davis’s legacy is being dismantled by chronic underfunding. The future of our colleges depends on renewal. We must reclaim these values and call on our federal and provincial leaders to support a truly public system of higher education that serves the communities it was created to serve.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction
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Doug Ford is Trying to Control How Universities Operate
Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Instead of discussing more funding, when parliament is back in session in October, the debate around Bill 33 will resume. Since June, groups representing students, faculty, and administrators have been submitting responses to the bill – every single one… criticizes the proposed legislation, from raising serious concerns about its implementation to condemning it outright.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction
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Ontario: The new pragmatism
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
Some 17 out of Ontario’s 24 universities are, or have been, under government mandated third-party efficiency reviews, and many are dealing with deficits and related cuts to programs, faculty and staff… But after all the bruising and battering, universities have found ways to adapt, and some are emerging in fighting form.
Tags: budget, economy, Education, featured, ideology, jurisdiction
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Slim pickings in course calendars
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
… between 2020 and 2024, Ontario’s population increased by 9.5 per cent, from 14.7 million to 16.1 million. Provincial funding for universities didn’t keep pace, increasing by just 6.7 per cent, from $4.2 billion to $4.6 billion, over that time period… “a student shouldn’t have to worry if the courses they need to fulfill their degree will be offered…”
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction
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Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
For the province’s universities, the tuition reduction and freeze meant $500 million in lost revenue as of 2019, the year after the policy was announced. By 2024, with the real value of those domestic tuition dollars declining due to inflation, the ongoing freeze was taking nearly $1 billion out of university budgets…
Tags: budget, Education, ideology
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