Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
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Not one Canadian in 10 would freely choose to join the angry, divided U.S., but they may face a long, miserable economic siege to avoid it.
An adult from Toronto was charged after three masked suspects snuck into a local high school, tracked down and held a student against their will inside a bathroom.
A revamped program that pairs police officers with schools will resume at one London-area high school, the chair of the London District Catholic school board says. “The board unanimously approved the project last year (and) we had some delays, but now we are moving forward,” Gabe Pizzuti said. “The school resource officer’s important role within […]
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One calm September day, Big Abe LeBlanc set his fishing net in Lake Superior. Then he called law enforcement and turned himself in. What happened next changed fishing in the Great Lakes forever.
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Iconic Canadian writer Lawrence Hill says a London District Catholic school board ban on teaching his and other Black writers’ books containing the N-word will essentially erase their work from the classroom curriculum. Hill â the author of 11 books, including the Book of Negroes â first expressed his thoughts
An international student from India who was studying at Lambton College was fatally stabbed in an altercation Sunday at a Sarnia rooming house, multiple sources say. Gurasis Singh, 22, was in his first year studying business management, the Sarnia-based college confirmed in a statement Tuesday. âStudents are at the heart
An upcoming article highlights the Chin brothers’ extraordinary rise to hockey fame at the height of anti-Chinese discrimination in Canada. “We live in a different time,” writer Debbie Jiang commented on racism in sports. “The colour barrier wasn’t broken until Larry Kwong played for the New York Rangers in 1948.”
London Free Press
The region’s largest school board is developing an anti-Black racism strategy, a system-wide policy that will take a year to complete. Read More