TORONTO – Yes, you are reading that correctly. The “employees” hired to educate children ages four to eighteen have decided that they no longer need to abide by duly constituted school boards whose trustees are elected by parents to safeguard the interests of their children.
OTTAWA – A shocking internal report on the ArriveCan app – used during the pandemic to manage arrivals and departures from Canada – finds the existence of… non-existent contractors: in particular, 76% of the app’s contractors “did not do any work”, says the audit just released by the Office of the Procurement Ombudsman and published by the National Post. (more…)
TORONTO – The Catholic teachers union OECTA declares war on its members’ employer: the York Catholic District School Board. The president of the York Catholic Teachers, Mike Totten, has in fact sent a very harsh letter to trustee Frank Alexander, “guilty” – according to Totten – of having presented a motion, being discussed at today evening’s board of trustees, to overcome the divisions caused, in recent months, by requests to fly flags in YCDSB schools other than those recognized by all, in particular the one of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
OTTAWA – The first “round” of hearings began today, in the federal inquiry into foreign interference in Canada: a public inquiry, which requires the sharing of a series of confidential documents. The first five days of hearings will therefore serve to decide how to make that information public, to prepare the ground for the next public hearings which will probably take place at the end of March and which will serve to delve deeper into the accusations of Chinese, Indian and Russian foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, with a report on those matters due May 3. The investigation will then turn to policy questions, examining the government’s ability to detect, deter and counter foreign interference that targets Canada’s democratic processes. The final report is expected by the end of the year.
TORONTO – Our readers will know that these last two weeks the world and this country have been gripped by issues that challenge every pre-conceived notion of what is “wrong” or “right” in our societies. Those pressures are contesting long-held positions of a free press, as partisans/advocates for one side or the other lay claim to the “High Ground” and, in the process, engage in the demonization of those holding a different viewpoint. Moreover, they are calling into question the very basis for the authority to pass judgements.
