High schools, year divided into ‘quadmester’

The next school year in Ontario’s high schools will also be divided into ‘quadmester’. That’s what Toronto District School Board (TDSB) spokesman Ryan Bird said. “The Ministry of Education has ordered all school boards, including the TDSB, to follow a program that emphasizes as much as possible the division into groups of students, which translates into the “quadmester model” Continue reading→

Festival de Curtas da União Europeia de 27 a 29 de maio

Uma viagem pela Europa através de 21 curtas-metragens

Portugal participa com a curta-metragem Som e Fúria (Nha Mila)

A oitava edição do Festival Anual de Curtas-Metragens da União Europeia, regressa em formato virtual pelo segundo ano consecutivo. Este evento online é apresentado em colaboração com a delegação da União Europeia no Canadá e as embaixadas e institutos culturais dos Estados membros da UE participantes. Continue reading→

Mixing COVID-19 vaccine doses increases mild symptoms but it is safe

TORONTO – Canada and Ontario are still grappling with the AstraZeneca node. The vaccine, although still considered safe by both Health Canada and the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (Naci) has been suspended as a precaution in some provinces of our country. In Ontario, as explained this week by Chief Medical Officer David Williams, the provisional stop was decided for two reasons: on the one hand the necessary caution pending new data on adverse reactions, on the other hand the lack of new supplies due to the announced delays in deliveries. Continue reading→

Școli: redeschiderea incerta, concentrare pe septembrie

Mariella Policheni — Video: Cristiana Petrescu

TORONTO – Cu aproximativ o lună și jumătate inainte de sfârșitul anului școlar, guvernul presat de părinți, care vor să știe dacă copiii lor se vor întoarce în sălile de clasă, continuă să pastreze tacerea. După cum se spune, uneori trebuie să citim printre rânduri, adică să ghicim ceea ce nu se spune. Continue reading→

Stop at AstraZeneca, experts still divided

TORONTO – Ontario is accelerating on the vaccination front. In the province the government is proceeding in stages sent in its dual strategy to curb the covid-19 contagion: on the one hand the progressive lowering of the minimum age in order to book vaccination and on the other hand the sending of at least 50 percent of the doses in the 114 provincial hotspots, those areas that is, where the contagion runs faster. Yesterday the executive confirmed that 50% of adults in the province received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine. Continue reading→