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May 5, 2025 
Ford’s government is underfunding education
In a story that is all too common across the province, parents and teachers from the Toronto District School Board calling into the CBC Radio’s…
Larry Allen
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January 28, 2025
School boards are coming for your sick days
Ontario teachers, who signed a new four-year contract last year, will have to start thinking about bargaining sooner rather than later. The flood of articles…
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September 26, 2024
TDSB witch hunt makes a mockery of Truth and Reconciliation
In the Ontario government’s latest embarrassing move, the Ministry of Education has launched an investigation into the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) field trip to…
Analysis
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September 2, 2024
You can’t scapegoat your way out of a teacher crisis
In what has become an annual tradition, Quebec Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville announced to the media that there are still 3,858 teaching positions that…
Analysis
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April 30, 2024
Ontario government continues to shortchange students
On April 26, the Ford government quietly released information on its new funding model for public schools for 2024-2025. The new model is said to…
Analysis
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April 10, 2024
OECTA deal highlights missed opportunity for Ontario’s teachers
Ontario’s Catholic teachers have ratified a tentative contract deal with the province, covering the next three years. On March 27, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’…
Analysis
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February 12, 2024
School board responds to staffing shortage with more cuts
This week the Peel District School Board (PDSB) announced to staff that it would be getting rid of all of the contained “communication classes” and…
Analysis
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January 29, 2024
Answer to school staffing crisis is better working conditions and student supports
Earlier this month, the Toronto Star published an article called, “A ‘crisis’ in GTA school staffing shortages is leading to cancelled classes, burnout and mounting…
Analysis
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December 5, 2023
Rank and file power needed to push beyond gains in ETFO tentative agreement
This agreement will give teachers three years to try and build the kind of organization needed to create pressure for a united front of teachers unions like we saw in 2019.
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October 3, 2023
A tale of two teachers’ bargaining strategies: Quebec and Ontario
Nine unions affiliated with the Fédération autonome de l’enseignement (FAE), representing 65,500 elementary and secondary school teachers in Quebec have voted in favour of unlimited…
Analysis
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August 29, 2023
Teachers to hold strike votes, but what will it take to win?
At the annual Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) meeting, union President Karen Brown announced that strike votes would be held in schools across the…
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June 1, 2023
What would really make schools safe?
This past week, anonymous letters from teachers at both Tomken Road Middle School and Homeland Senior Public School in Mississauga have been posted on Twitter…