Peel is among eight school boards whose authority Ontario’s Bill 33 enabled the education minister’s office to seize from elected boards and place under his own control.
Not state bureaucratic control, partisan control.
If the teachers unions don’t step up now…
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Relevant to Mark Carney's position on day one that Canada supports the war but doesn't want civilians to get hurt.
Beyond the absurdity of a "halfway" position that's inconsistent with the reality of war, whether a war meets your moral imperative must lead your logical conclusion to support it.
Doug Ford & education minister Paul Calandra to hold presser at 10, a day after northern school board chairs say PCs are drafting legislation to dissolve elected public trustees.
Trustees will call for province-wide consultations and a path back to democratic control for the eight seized boards.
Public pushback saves Thunder Bay conservation authority from amalgamation.
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I reserve the right to be surprised by restricting developments in my democracy.
Follow me to read more surprising things until morale improves.
I’m now hearing from southern Ontario that tomorrow is going to bring a sizeable and coordinated media offensive from public education trustees and others who support local education accountability.
School board chairs in Thunder Bay & Sault Ste. Marie say Ontario intends to permanently dissolve elected public boards this legislative session, ending over 200 years of local accountability in education.
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SIU is investigating after Kenora OPP shot a man "armed with an edged weapon" on Monday.
The individual was pronounced deceased.
While the open mic went around and Thunder Bay folks shared stories of near-death experiences, and lost family and friends, there was a collision on Hwy. 17 west of Dryden and Hwy. 655 closed north of Timmins.
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She’s not just doing journalism, she’s providing a valuable community service – you can support her work here:
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Speaking in Thunder Bay tonight, ONDP leader Marit Stiles calls for northern highways 11 & 17 to be named a “nation-building project.”
Stiles says she has heard about lost lives on northern highways every time she has been to northern Ontario, says she’s never seen anything like it.
Sizeable turnout in Thunder Bay for the Ontario NDP’s tour across dangerous northern highways 11 and 17.
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I'm getting down with this new wolf mug the Kinna-aweya Legal Clinic gave me for speaking about media literacy at their staff retreat on Friday.
It’s not about "trusted sources," it’s learning to see the cables that bind the ideas to the players and acting in your own interests.
Up until last week, Ontario’s “special economic zones” legalized by Bill 5 were about reducing regulatory red tape.
After Doug Ford appeared at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada conference, it’s less clear what “special” circumstances we’re talking about.
OPP is investigating 11 bomb threats to schools of the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board in Dryden, Red Lake and Sioux Lookout.
OPP has “located” both males located in connection with a suspected shooting death in Atikokan on Wednesday. Police has lifted a shelter-in-place order.
We often talk about how the lies have become so big that they're wrestling each other to the death for the right to supplant reality.
But in terms of how our leaders are openly using processes for their ends, we actually live in remarkably honest times.
NOMA on Globe & Mail editorial:
"Once all the government people start reading the article & their staffers read the article, they'll see it is really bang-on in regards to what the messaging was from us, so we believe now we'll get some really good traction."
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Provinces and territories to integrate energy transmission grid, expanding inter-provincial energy trade and fast-tracking "intertie" projects between provinces.
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Ontario says IESO believes our energy demand could increase 90 per cent by 2050. That seems high.
NAN Deputy Grand Chief Anna Betty Achneepineskum said today’s physical presence is partly to assert the family’s rights to timely justice in the face of a system that has drawn out both the investigative and judicial processes.
Nishnawbe Aski Nation issued this statement on behalf of the Deborah Anishinabie’s family this morning. It says the health worker, “had much love to give and she poured every ounce of her compassion into her work and the people she cared for.”
Deborah Anishinabie's family & supporters gathered in ceremony at the Thunder Bay Courthouse prior to the preliminary hearing for Levi Lawson, accused of second-degree murder & indignity to a human body in connection with her Dec. 2024 death.
The charges haven’t been tested in court.
You guys remember Wag The Dog? The one about the president starting a war to avoid a sex scandal? Man, great cast but that premise was just wonky.
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Doug Ford was briefly interrupted this moring:
“Grassy Narrows is still being poisoned. Will you compensate Grassy Narrows for the ongoing mercury crisis?”
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They're calling for the Dryden Mill to be shut down & for mercury compensation.
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Kiiwetinoong MPP Sol Mamakwa says "don't be fooled" by Premier Doug Ford's statements earlier today on whether he will designate the Ring of Fire a "special economic zone."
"Bliil 5 does not supercede the rights First Nations have. First Nations have a bigger hammer & they will stand up to Bill 5."
"There hasn't been any meaningful discsusion in terms of settitng up how [discussions with Ontario] could look like because ultimately, this is about fast-tracking their processes." - former Neskantaga First Nation Chief Wayne Moonias
Says Neskantaga has not given consent to Ring of Fire.
Ontario ombudsman Paul Dube was in Neskantaga First Nation last summer, finding "unsafe and unacceptable" conditions, including a boil-water advisory that has stretched over 11,000 days, a condemned health centre, a cramped school, and a litany of systemic challenges.
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“Our community is being excluded from these decisions, these very important decisions that are happening. It’s happening too fast & decisions are being made too fast without us.” - Neskantaga First Nation Coun. Coleen Moonias on proposed Ring of Fire
