Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul
Fake transcripts and essays, falsified letters of recommendation and test scores, paid consultants, and fake passports and IDs. These are just some of the many methods that Chinese nationals have reportedly used to gain acceptance into U.S. colleges and universities.
Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ontario-schools-not-reopening-until-september
Discussion posted by: IRWeasel
Ontario schools will stay closed for the rest of the school year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Premier Doug Ford says the safety of children is his top priority, and at-home learning will continue.
Discussion posted by: IRWeasel
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Four million girls are at risk of child marriage in the next two years because of the new coronavirus pandemic, a global charity said on Friday, as campaigners warned that the crisis could undo decades of work to end the practice. Deepening poverty caused by the loss of livelihoods is likely to drive many families to marry off their daughters early, World Vision said. “When you have any crisis like a conflict, disaster or pandemic rates of child marriage go up,” the charity’s child marriage expert Erica Hall told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Discussion posted by: David McNamara
A tweet from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Mother’s Day, offering Canadian kids homework help, has churned out thousands of partisan replies. “Hey kids, I know we’re going through a difficult time right now and it’s not made any easier by the fact that you have to do your homework around the kitchen table,” Trudeau said in a video tweeted Sunday. “I think parents across the country are discovering a new appreciation for the incredible work that teachers do. Well, as a teacher I want to help.” He invited parents and kids to share with him “really tough” questions.
Article Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/6927610/barry-neufeld-coronavirus-conspiracy-post/
Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul
A controversial Chilliwack School District trustee is being blasted for transphobia and disinformation over a Facebook post attacking the World Health Organization and Canada’s top doctor while linking them to transgender issues. B.C. Minister of Education Rob Fleming says he’s prepared to notify the province’s human rights commissioner about the incident on Monday. In the Facebook post, Neufeld claims the WHO is “perpetrating fear” over COVID-19, before attacking the organization for its positions supporting transgender supportive education and the right to access abortions.
Discussion posted by: David McNamara
TORONTO, May 8. 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — An LGBT activist elementary Catholic school teacher is lobbying the Toronto Catholic District School Board to recognize June as “Pride Month” — and half of the board voted Thursday to consider the idea. “There is no Catholic reason not to recognize the diversity of our LGBTQ students through an event such as Pride Month,” Paulo De Buono claimed in a May 7 three-minute video presentation to the board. Six of the TCDSB’s twelve trustees then voted to receive his request — but because a tie vote is a defeat, that was as far as the matter went that evening.
Discussion posted by: David McNamara
Quebec has recorded its first COVID-19 outbreak at a daycare, says the director of public health for the Lanaudière region. The daycare centre — an emergency childcare service for essential workers in Mascouche — was closed on Monday, Dr. Richard Lessard said in a virtual news conference on Wednesday. Mascouche is 50 kilometres northwest of Montreal. Twelve out of 27 children contracted COVID-19, as did four employees, Lessard said. No one was hospitalized.
Discussion posted by: David McNamara
With some Quebec schools set to reopen next week, parents are facing a tough choice to send their kids back to class under restrictive and ambiguous rules or continue to keep them at home. And what they’re contemplating may foreshadow what other Canadian classes will look like in the fall if they resume in other provinces. Elementary schools and daycares outside of the Montreal area are scheduled to reopen on Monday after shutting down on March 13. The reopening date in the Montreal area was pushed back to May 25 as COVID-19 cases in hospitals have not stabilized, Premier Francois Legault announced Thursday.
Discussion posted by: IRWeasel
The Peel District School Board says it has fired a school council chair in Brampton after he posted a tweet blasted as Islamophobic last week. Ravi Hooda made the comment in reply to Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, who announced a by-law would allow mosques to play daily calls to prayer over loudspeakers during Ramadan.
Discussion posted by: JohnF44
Ellen DeGeneres is honouring all the 2020 graduates who will not have a graduation ceremony this year due to the onggoing coronavirus pandemic. The talk show host shared her own commencement speech Monday during her latest episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, filmed from her home. In the hilarious speech, DeGeneres shared some words of wisdom, quoted Taylor Swift and even added in a jab at U.S. President Donald Trump. “Since I’m home and you’re home, I thought I could say a few words to all the year’s graduates,” she said. And after putting on a bathrobe, she continued, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Or maybe tomorrow or the day after that. Let’s call it mid-June,” she said. “You’ve studied incredibly hard to get to this day. If you’re graduating high school, congratulations.”