Since it was announced, the plan has received criticism from health care professionals, politicians and disability activists.
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Voting to ratify the new resolution will conclude on Dec. 5, with results to be announced the following day.
The strike notice was filed days after the Ontario Progressive Conservatives promised to repeal the Keeping Students in Class Act (Bill 28).
It sounds to me an awful lot like a $1 beer platform — policy change that benefits a privileged population while an underprivileged one is periodically neglected.
Micro-credentials are new educational offerings with province-backed funding. But what are they and are they beneficial at the U of O?
“The University is still planning for an increased level of activities on campus coming January 2022, including a return of the vast majority of administrative and support staff,” says the University of Ottawa.
“We rescued 80 per cent of the animals that we look after,” and even with the zoo’s financial setbacks, “we continue to take-in animals,” said Lee Parker from Little Ray’s Nature Centres.
Ontario universities have started their winter 2021 semesters under a province-wide stay at home order. But while this is not the first semester impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the lockdown measures are complicating an already difficult situation for students.
“Many critics of such a replacement argue that heritage has a part to play in the flag’s significance and that we must not replace our history simply because of a few bruised egos. Such an argument, however genuine, disregards the fact that white supremacy is the foundation of much of our institutions and by proxy, our province.” writes fourth-year conflict studies and human rights student at the University of Ottawa Trevor Stewart.
The University of Alberta’s French campus has fallen victim to funding cuts for the last 20 years and an overall lack of support from the U of A. L’Association Canadienne-Française de l’Alberta is now taking action to get additional funding to help support francophone students in Alberta.
Local restaurants have been forced to adapt to a number of stringent regulations to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 as they reopen in stage two of Ontario’s reopening plan. For some though, these regulations seem exaggerated and restrictive as restaurants aren’t allowed to open their inside dining area and are thus dependent on the weather and cannot guarantee shifts to a number of their employees notably servers.
Post-secondary students across the province held a walkout today, leaving their classes and staging rallies to protest recent changes to education policy by the provincial government.
On Tuesday the Ontario government announced they would double their 2018-19 investment in a fund for programs combating sexual violence on campuses, and released a series of new requirements for post-secondary institutions alongside their summary report of the 2018 Student Voices on Sexual Violence Survey.
“This year’s lobby asks are a little bit in response to some of the cuts that we’ve seen, but also still setting the direction for (the) future.” —Nour Alideeb, CFS Chairperson.
The University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors met on Jan. 28 to discuss the school’s response to the Ford government’s cuts, the expansion of Francophone services, and the ongoing issues facing the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO).
The Ford government announced changes to OSAP last week that will see many students receive significantly reduced grants from the program.
The policy is intended to address a perceived crisis of free speech on campus but has faced backlash by academic organizations who claim it erodes the independence of educational institutions.
Should the drinking age in Ontario be lowered to 18, or should it remain the same as it is now?
Instead of scrapping the curriculum, maybe it’s time for Doug Ford to educate himself on queer identities, and the issues facing LGBTQ+ youth. Being against this curriculum, it’s pretty obvious he needs it.
Marijuana legalization is coming, and we should be prepared for it. Being prepared requires a careful look at what services we expect to receive and the cost of what it will take to achieve that. Can Ontario really afford the cost of this government monopoly?
Hamilton is at least moving in the right direction with their new education based approach to regulating predatory payday loans.
Is cap and trade really an efficient way to combat climate change, and how will this system affect Ontarians in the long run?
How many great works of literature would never have been written because someone decreed that making faster computers was a more worthwhile endeavor?
Recently, the Ontario government floated the idea of scrapping the mandatory half-credit that is grade 10 civics class, where high school students are supposed to learn what it means to be a Canadian citizen. Is this a good idea?
The province’s annual wage increase came into effect on Oct. 1, bringing the current $11.25 per hour rate to $11.40 per hour for adult employees.
