Category: Education Matters

Dufferin Peel: Where have all the children gone? And the money?

TORONTO – It has become fashionable, almost obligatory, to condemn any “government initiative” involving monitoring of expenditures as an “extreme, ultra-right wing” attack on our rights. And so it is with the latest move by the Ford Government to bring the School Boards into line on their spending by placing several (five and counting) under direct supervision. 

School Boards Groping in the Dark

TORONTO – On reading the Investigators’ reports to Education Minister Calandra recommending he place the subject boards under supervision, it was not a question of if, but when it would happen. Money does matter. The Government of Ontario spends 220 billion of our tax dollars annually.

CORRIERE CANADESE / Il Cardinale Leo ‘allertato’ sulle scuole cattoliche

TORONTO – È il periodo delle festività estive e le persone sono pronte a “rinfrescare e ricominciare” la propria vita. Il Ministero dell’Istruzione non sta facendo da meno, mentre si appresta a ripensare e reinventare il proprio ruolo nell’attuale mondo economico e politico in continua evoluzione. Il suo “capo” diretto, l’Onorevole Paul Calandra, sembra metodico e determinato a “mettere le cose a posto” per i genitori contribuenti ed i loro figli… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Cardinal Leo Placed on Alert re Catholic Schools

TORONTO – It’s the festive summer season and people are off to “refresh and restart” their lives. The Ministry of Education is doing no less as it sets remake and reimagine its role in the evolving economic and political world of today. Its immediate “boss”, the Hon. Paul Calandra, seems to be methodical and determined “make things right” by tax-paying parents and their children.