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Why doesn’t Canada let schools provide child care?
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Canada’s policy-makers could take lessons from other countries who have streamlined early learning and child care within their schools. Instead, they are putting up roadblocks, preventing provinces and territories from using federal child-care dollars to transform schools into one-stop centres for young children… Schools are publicly owned, eliminating the need for costly land and facility acquisition. Operating and oversight mechanisms are already in place.
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Non-stop political spin is derailing serious debate over schools
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
The 2020 reopening plan included “up to $1.3 billion in supports for the education sector.” But mostly it wasn’t new money from the province. It came from school board reserves. It came from the federal government… taking inflation and enrolment into account, school boards received $1.6 billion less for the 2021-22 school year than they did in 2017-18. That’s the equivalent of $800 less per student. The average-size secondary school had to make do with $600,000 less.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Auditor General of Ontario finds Laurentian manufactured financial crisis, government ignored warning signs
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
… the university’s financial crisis resulted from secretive and deficient governance practices and the Ford government’s failure to step in and support the institution when its financial needs became clear. The Auditor General found that the use of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) was inappropriate and unneeded and that, instead, the university should have worked collegially… to address the institution’s financial challenges.
Tags: budget, jurisdiction, participation
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Ontario colleges will be able to offer three-year degree programs for the first time
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Minister of Colleges and Universities Jill Dunlop said new programs will train people for sectors experiencing workforce shortages; positions in demand include technology workers in health care, digital, data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and process automation… New three-year applied degree programs must be career-oriented and distinct from university degrees; they’ll be reviewed by a quality assessment board and require the minister’s approval. The province expects new programs will be launched by fall 2023.
Tags: economy, jurisdiction, participation
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Laurentian, province broke act while cutting French programs, report finds
Friday, April 1st, 2022
The report determined Laurentian and the Ministry of Colleges and Universities were focused on Laurentian’s financial difficulties, while the Ministry of Francophone Affairs failed to take an active role. This led to a situation where no one was ensuring the protection of language rights under the French Language Services Act… Laurentian said it welcomed the report and would work with the two ministries to implement the recommendations.
Tags: budget, participation, rights, standard of living
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French language programs at Laurentian should be restored following report exposing failures by university and Ford government
Friday, April 1st, 2022
… OCUFA is calling for the 28 French language programs cut by the university to be restored. Further, in recognition of its responsibilities to protect minority French speaking communities across the country, the Federal government should immediately pass legislation to ensure the CCAA and its counterpart, the Bankruptcy Insolvency Act, cannot be invoked by other public institutions who might use it to cut similar programs and services for French speaking populations.
Tags: budget, participation, rights
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Laurentian’s collapse driven by Ford government’s agenda of austerity and privatization
Friday, February 25th, 2022
The Ford government’s obsession with austerity and privatization was a major driver of Laurentian University’s insolvency and collapse… Years of chronic underfunding incentivized Ontario universities to seek other forms of financial support, including alarmingly high tuition fees and private funding with strings attached. This approach drove Laurentian to the brink and Ford’s apparent refusal to support the university in that moment of need pushed it over the edge.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction
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Laurentian’s collapse driven by Ford government’s agenda of austerity and privatization
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
The Ford government’s obsession with austerity and privatization was a major driver of Laurentian University’s insolvency and collapse… Northern Ontario deserves better. The Ontario government must recognize the important mandate of northern and bilingual institutions and increase special purpose grants for those institutions while also making additional investments in universities that serve Indigenous communities.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, multiculturalism
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Laurentian battle suggests fight for Canada’s rural higher education
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
… the hardship created by that lost public investment has fallen heaviest on northern institutions such as Laurentian. That’s because the northern population is less able to afford higher tuition… and its remote location makes its institutions relatively less attractive to outsiders – including the foreign students whose tuition increasingly subsidises Canadian higher education…
Tags: budget, participation, standard of living, youth
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Faculty associations ask federal candidates to protect public institutions from private-sector restructuring
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
This federal election is an opportunity to commit to our cherished public institutions that have been created for the common good, including universities, and to ensure that they are protected from proceedings designed for private sector corporations under the BIA and CCAA acts. It is the responsibility of federal and provincial governments to ensure the health and sustainability of public institutions through appropriate instruments and regulations for the public sector.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, rights
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