Mediated contract negotiations between Ontario’s education workers and the province are continuing today at a downtown Toronto hotel, a day after the union was given the go-ahead to go on strike. Ontario’s education workers contract talks…
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the provincial government with the assistance of mediator William Kaplan will start working together today with the goal of negotiating a new collective agreement for Ontario’s 50,000…
Identity politics dominate Waterloo Region public school board race ‘The Waterloo public board is really at the centre of the current culture war in Canadian education systems’ | TheRecord.com
With the municipal election less than two weeks away, one section of the ballot is often ignored by voters, and advocates say some far-right groups are taking advantage. Far-right groups targeting oft-ignored Ontario school board…
Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions, made the announcement Friday after two days of bargaining this week. Ontario school workers request no-board report, beginning countdown to strike, work-to-rule | The…
Contracts for all major education unions in Ontario expired at the end of August and it was widely expected to be a challenging round of bargaining with the Progressive Conservative government. Ontario’s major education unions…
Premier Doug Ford is pleading with Ontario’s 55,000 school support staff not to hit the picket lines. Doug Ford asks school unions not to strike | The Star
CUPE vice-president, Laura Walton, responded to Premier Doug Ford, who, on Thursday, urged education workers not to strike by saying, “don’t force my hand.” CUPE vice president slams Ford’s comments on education workers strike |…
The Toronto archdiocese’s St. Monica Institute opened its doors Sept. 24 although Executive Director Matthew Marquardt acknowledges that technically it doesn’t yet have any doors to open. St. Monica Institute brings faith to a practical…
Ontario has stripped some checks and balances from its funding rules, which observers say threatens to compromise the ambitious child-care program. Inside Ontario’s turbulent $10-a-day child-care rollout | The Star