Posts Tagged ‘Education’
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Ford government is still underfunding education despite budget increase, school boards say
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Spending $30.3 billion on per-pupil funding in 2025-26 doesn’t make up for years funding didn’t keep up with inflation, says the boards’ association… when the Ford government took power in 2018, per-pupil funding was $12,282, and in the upcoming school year will be $14,560 — but when adjusted to 2018 dollars, funding has actually dropped, leaving a $693-million gap for the province’s 31 English public boards alone.
Tags: budget, Education, featured, jurisdiction, participation
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Bill 33 doesn’t dissolve Ontario’s school boards — but it’s yet another hit to their power
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
At the point where cabinet is asserting the power to micro-manage the real estate portfolios of boards (and even pick and choose when schools can be renamed) it’s time to ask whether school boards actually serve a purpose anymore, or whether we’d be better off governing public education with more direct and clear lines of accountability to the premier and his cabinet.
Tags: Education, jurisdiction, participation
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Ontario adding 2,600 teacher college spaces amid shortage
Friday, May 23rd, 2025
Teachers union presidents say adding 2,600 new teacher education spots is a good start toward addressing the shortage but the government needs to work on not just recruitment, but retention… “There’s 40,000 people who are fully qualified, who aren’t working in education right now, and that’s because of the working conditions — the crumbling buildings, the overcrowding, the violence in the classroom… “You can put more bodies in, but are they going to stay?”
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Ontario budget leaves universities and colleges twisting in the wind
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
In 2019, the Ontario government cut tuition fees by 10 per cent and froze them. The measure cost universities $360 million and colleges $80 million, because the government didn’t make up for the budget shortfall. The government also cancelled free tuition for eligible low-income families…The budget also needed to address the structural underfunding of post-secondary education. Instead, funding is falling from $14.2 billion last year to $13 billion this year, to $12.8 billion in 2027-28… at a time when we should be investing heavily in our people.
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Where do the federal election candidates stand on postsecondary education?
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
On April 28, Canadians will go to the polls to vote for the next federal government… To learn where each party stands on postsecondary education, according to their platforms and statements from party leaders during the campaign, see the list below, which will be updated weekly throughout the election.
Tags: budget, Education, featured, ideology, jurisdiction
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Canada can be the first choice for high-skill talent fleeing Trump’s America. But we have to act fast
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
We have the political stability, multicultural harmony and robust R&D activity in our world-class universities, teaching hospitals and networks of entrepreneurial tech startups to attract top talent from beyond our borders. But Canadian universities — epicentres of advanced research in a multitude of fields, and the intended destination for many potential U.S. immigrants — are coping with a funding crisis…
Tags: Education, Health, immigration, jurisdiction
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Why Canadian-trained doctors should be allowed to practise anywhere in Canada without additional licensing
Monday, March 17th, 2025
Why, then, are doctors with identical training and qualifications confined to practising in just one province or territory? … Despite national standards for training and qualification, the power to grant a licence rests with 13 separate provincial and territorial regulatory colleges. This fragmented system creates artificial barriers, limiting the mobility of our highly skilled physicians across Canada.
Tags: Education, Health, jurisdiction
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Doug Ford’s $612-million beer boondoggle tab could hardly have arrived at a worse time for him
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Why starve hospitals and deprive patients of family physicians while pouring money down the drain for beer and wine?… Ford had the past seven years to make good on his promises — on health care and housing, if not booze. Yet only on Monday, on the eve of an election, did his government come forward with a last-minute plan to give two million more Ontarians access to a family doctor within four years (in time for another election).
Tags: budget, economy, Education, featured, Health, homelessness, standard of living
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Doug Ford always had a mandate to invest in Ontario, he just didn’t do his job
Friday, January 24th, 2025
Does the current government have the mandate to expand child care provision, tackle the colossal school repair backlog, reduce emergency room waiting times and assist the more than 100,000 Torontonians relying on food banks and 80,000 Ontarians experiencing homelessness? It does.
Yet, that’s not the focus. Year in and year out, the Ontario government’s attention and dollars have been poured into populist and nonsense measures nobody asked for.
Tags: child care, economy, Education, featured, Health, homelessness, poverty
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Why doesn’t Doug Ford care about funding colleges and universities? Because you don’t care either
Friday, January 24th, 2025
Shortly after taking power in 2018, with colleges and universities starved for money, the premier further reduced their cash flow by ordering every campus to cut tuition by 10 per cent… But those tuition dollars weren’t his to cut — the money was remitted by students. More to the point, his government didn’t consider making up the difference to keep universities and colleges whole, leaving them in a deeper fiscal hole.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, youth
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