Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Why we need to talk about the root causes of food insecurity
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Research shows that when more people have adequate incomes, food insecurity declines, and that policy changes are essential to ensure that wages, social assistance and pension rates provide a livable income and greater income equality… most children’s fiction suggests individual choices or life circumstances are to blame for food insecurity and that charity, kind strangers and luck are the solutions.
Tags: Education, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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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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Canada doesn’t need another headline about doctors — it needs a plan
Monday, December 22nd, 2025
… more than 13,000 internationally trained physicians already live in Canada without any pathway to practise. Before adding thousands more, we should ask why so many already here cannot even be assessed… Canada’s problem is not a lack of potential physicians, but a failure of planning and foresight… We have the need. We have the talent. We have the institutions. But we have not connected the dots. It’s time to build the system Canadians deserve.
Tags: economy, Education, Health, immigration
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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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Ford government is an obstacle to highly affordable, high-quality child care
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Ontario’s auditor general reported the Ford government failed to create the number of child care spaces it promised, even as overall demand has tripled. Much of this failure is down to Conservatives’ fixation on for-profit child care… The result? Thousands of families are still without child care.
Tags: child care, Education, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization
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Could a national, public ‘CanGPT’ be Canada’s answer to ChatGPT?
Friday, November 28th, 2025
… what if AI were developed as a public utility rather than as a commercial service? Canada’s long history with public service media — namely the CBC and Radio-Canada — offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public amid growing calls for a public interest approach to AI policy.
Tags: Education, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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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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Wait for core Ontario autism services tops five years: advocates
Friday, October 31st, 2025
Families starting to receive funding now to pay for core therapies including applied behaviour analysis, speech language pathology and occupational therapy are people who registered for the program five years ago… more than 84,000 children are registered in the Ontario Autism Program to seek autism services and 19,600 of them are receiving funding to access core services… Less than one quarter of children registered for the Ontario Autism Program have been given access to the therapy that they were promised
Tags: disabilities, Education, jurisdiction, mental Health
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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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