Tag: Stephen Lecce
over 1 year ago
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Ontario government, union await labour board ruling as school support staff strike continues

A hearing began last Thursday evening and continued throughout the weekend, wrapping up Sunday afternoon.

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over 1 year ago
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CUPE starts wildcat strike as Doug Ford government appeals to labour board to stop it

Some 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees walked off the job Friday after the Conservatives ramme...

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over 1 year ago
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Ford government poised to pass law banning strike by CUPE school workers

The Ontario government is poised to pass legislation Thursday afternoon that would ban a strike by the province’s 55,...

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about 2 years ago
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MPP Stephen Lecce apologizes for frat boy ‘slave auction’ as NDP calls for his resignation

Lecce took part in the fraternity charity fundraiser at Western University 16 years ago.

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about 2 years ago
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Don’t extend mask mandates after March break, education minister tells Ontario schools

Ontario has fired a shot across the bow of school boards that are pushing to extend COVID-19 masking in classrooms be...

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about 2 years ago
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With deadline looming, why hasn’t Ontario signed a child-care deal yet?

With the end of the fiscal year looming — which could mean losing this year’s funds — and parents in other provinces ...

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over 2 years ago
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Millions of COVID-19 rapid tests to be distributed when Ontario reopens schools

Education Minister Stephen Lecce said millions of rapid antigen tests will be provided to teachers and students, as w...

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over 2 years ago
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Teachers’ union expresses safety concerns over Monday’s return to in-person classes in Ontario sc...

In the wake of Premier Doug Ford’s decision to reopen all 4,800 schools to in-person learning Monday, critics are pou...

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over 2 years ago
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Ontario has 3.5 billion reasons not to sign on to Ottawa’s daycare plan — for now

The federal Liberal and the provincial Progressive Conservative governments have publicly staked their turf when it c...

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over 2 years ago
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Stephen Lecce’s home targeted by anti-vaccine protesters

York Regional Police were dispatched to Education Minister Stephen Lecce’s home twice in the last two days as anti-va...

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almost 3 years ago
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Opinion | Sneering at Ontario’s anti-racist math curriculum reveals a straight line to what peopl...

Why the education ministry’s changes to the preamble of the new curriculum were damaging.

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almost 3 years ago
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Education minister under fire after introduction deleted from Ontario’s new Grade 9 math curriculum

Premier Doug Ford’s government deleted a preamble to the new Grade 9 curriculum that said math “has been used to norm...

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almost 3 years ago
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Education minister confident most Ontario students will be back in schools in September

Education Minister Stephen Lecce is confident Ontario schoolchildren will return en masse to classrooms after the sum...

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almost 3 years ago
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Premier Doug Ford leaning strongly against reopening schools, the Star has learned

“It can’t happen unfortunately. The risks are too great,” a senior Progressive Conservative official, speaking confid...

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about 3 years ago
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Opinion | Don’t let Doug Ford’s incompetence fool you. His plan for schools shows he hasn’t forgo...

By quietly fostering home schooling — when there is no proven demand nor any public policy justification — the Tories...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | When it comes to school re-openings, there is no right answer

One year after COVID-19 changed our world, the only certainty is that there are no certainties, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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over 3 years ago
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As COVID cases rise in Ontario schools, could an extended school break help slow the pandemic?

Peter Juni, scientific director of the province’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, says extending the winter break by...

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over 3 years ago
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Sadly, getting to COVID Zero now is too far to reach because we have already screwed up so badly

The real value of COVID Zero may be the idea to actually take the virus seriously in this country; to prioritize publ...

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