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To Siri, With Love
like many autistic people [who]… don’t quite understand the rules of the game, Siri is a nonjudgmental friend and teacher… My son’s practice conversation with Siri is translating into more facility with actual humans… the next generation of virtual assistants will not just retrieve information — they will also be able to carry on more complex conversations about a person’s area of interest.
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Ontario orders school board trustees to cancel pay raises
Trustees at several boards, including Windsor, Halton and the Durham region, recently passed motions to increase their honorariums, anticipating an end to the legislated four-year wage freeze for the public sector. They made the move even though Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government says its central task is to get public sector unions to accept pay freezes and temper their expectations as the province struggles to eliminate the deficit.
Tags: budget, ideology, tax
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Provinces pursuing two-tier tuition fee policies: study
The average cost of tuition and compulsory fees for Canadian undergraduate students will rise by almost 13% over the next four years, from $6,885 this fall to an estimated $7,755 in 2017-18, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)… This study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1993, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and ranks the provinces on affordability
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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University is actually quite cheap – it just doesn’t look that way
Every year, Canadian governments provide over $2-billion in tax credits, over $1-billion in grants and nearly $1-billion in loan remission to reduce the costs of education to students and their parents. All that money reduces the actual costs significantly… but most of that money comes at the back end, months after students really need it in order to pay for tuition… there are too many players in the game, using too many different funding vehicles.
Tags: ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Funding Denied? Inconceivable! The Fire Swamp of Canadian Student Aid
From year to year, grants that students once qualified for can be modified, eliminated, combined, or replaced by a new program for which they may no longer be eligible. The unpredictability of many of these programs combined with changing government budget priorities means that students who may have successfully accessed the resources available in their province one year can get burned the next– a peril with which Ontario students[ii] are very familiar.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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What’s old is new again with the Ontario Budget
Funding per “eligible” student… will fall 7.5 per cent over the next three years… real per student provincial funding has been falling since 2008-09… By the end of the current planning horizon, it would be its lowest since the higher education system began its expansion in the 1960s… Ontario will remain in last place in operating funding per student compared to other Canadian provinces, and continue to have the highest student-to-faculty ratios in the country. We’re educating more students with less money than ever before.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Reclaiming the civic university
Universities are thought of more and more as institutions of the economy. They are expanding, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, to meet the needs of a new knowledge-based economy confronting intense global competition… A civic university educates students for citizenship in a democracy… civic engagement… [but in] the development of Ontario universities… the influence is superficial… The task is to build the civic university.
Tags: economy, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Tenure protects academic freedom
Professors in Ontario teach more students for less money than almost anywhere else in North America. Our province has the highest student-to-faculty ratio and the lowest level of per-student funding in Canada. We also lag behind most peer jurisdictions in the U.S. on these important indicators. While student enrolment has increased by 68 per cent over the last decade the number of full-time faculty has only risen by 34 per cent. The problem is not too little teaching. It is too few full-time professors.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living
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A principled Ontario premier would end funding for Catholic schools
Many Canadian politicians have become accustomed to letting courts take the lead on social change. But the discrimination from publicly funding Ontario’s Catholic schools will persist until an Ontario leader has the courage to adopt the only principled solution. The time has come to eliminate public funding for Ontario’s Catholic schools.
Tags: budget, ideology, rights, standard of living, tax
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Ontario political parties don’t make the grade on higher education
The Liberal’s plan seems to be one of benign neglect, the NDP’s proposal does not go far enough and the PC’s proposals would lead to outright devastation of postsecondary funding… not a single party running in the Ontario election delivered a clear vision for the future for the postsecondary education sector… Ontario currently has the lowest per-student funding and the highest student-faculty ratio in the country.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, youth
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